10 worst Halloween candies of all time

1. Hershey’s Krackel. These are the elusive sultans of the Hershey’s Miniatures bag.   How does a bit of crisped rice so greatly enhance milk chocolate?  This candy proves that Snap and Pop have long been holding back their gifted brother.

2. Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin. While the flavor is identical to the classic cup, its gourd shape means there is something rare in your grasp.  You can’t get these treats any day you please. It’s like Halley’s Comet—if instead of a mass of frozen gases and dust, it was one of peanut butter, vegetable oil,sugar, dextrose, and salt.   Yum!

3. Take 5. In late 2004, candy innovation hit a peak when Hershey’s decided to combine the contents of almost every other candy bar in existence (chocolate,pretzels, caramel, peanuts, and peanut butter) into one crunchy, chewy, salty, sweet wonder-bar.  I’ll take six. *wink*

4. Pop Rocks. Here, candy and chemistry collide giving kids the sensation of swallowing sugary live fire crackers.  You’d be hard up to find much more fun in a 4″ packet.

5. Anything sour or hot (Warheads, Sour Patch Kids, Atomic Fireballs, Hot Tamales). Look, kids love adventure. And these sweets definitely put the “ow!” (and the fun) in Halloween.

6. Blue Razz Blow Pop.Blue raspberries do not exist outside of factories.   But we’re willing to ignore that because this candy has bubble gum inside!  The lollipop also turns your tongue blue, so it doubles as one of the world’s most affordable costumes.

7. Whoppers. There are very rare instances when you bite into one of these malt balls and instead of their characteristic crunch, they deflate.  While this isolated “Whopper puddin’” is one of life’s greatest disappointments,the crunch is by and large one of its most satisfying sensations.

8. Snickers.  I’ve heard this is the world’s best-selling candy bar.  I endorse compounding this epidemic.

9. Candy Corn. No candy represents Halloween more than the classic tri-colored treat.They look and taste like the nectarous fangs of unicorns.

10. Anything full size. Halloween candy bars are usually scaled-down and given the hilarious misnomer, “fun size.”  For something to be truly fun size, it must be big enough to climb.

5 things to keep you healthy

1. Include Vegetables with Your Meat Preparations.Cut up some Zucchini, Bell Peppers, Squash, Onions, Tomatoes or any other vegetable that you would like to have and place the slices on the grill for a quick addition to the grilled meat. Use smaller slices of the vegetables and make Kabobs with meat and vegetables, that way each person gets a healthy serving.

2. Choose a Meat that is Lower in Fat. A BBQ is never complete without hot dogs, right? Well...Hot Dogs contain a lot of sodium and fat inside the meat. There are healthy alternatives that are lower in fat, but still taste like the well-known and loved Hot Dog Taste. Throw some more chicken on the grill and take off some of those large hamburgers. Choose a lower in fat ground meat. They sell 85/15 and 95/5 ground meat that can be extremely healthy compared to the full fat meat. By adding some seasonings and getting creative, the lack of grease may be replaced with a sense of enjoyment for your taste-buds. If you are not looking to cut out the fat in the hamburgers, consider making smaller hamburgers or "sliders" for a portion controlled meal.

3. Skip the High Fat Desserts and Go for the Healthy Treats. Instead of something that will make your already full stomach, a bit more full, consider having something that is light and festive but filling. Red White and Blue healthy desserts.- A Mixture of Strawberries, Blueberries and Marshmallows all together.- Dip Strawberries in White Chocolate and then in Blue Sprinkles- Watermelon - A Very Healthy Dessert or Snack Take watermelon slices and a star cookie cutter to make star shaped watermelon chunks. These can then be put on the left over Kabob sticks and stuck into 1/2 of a watermelon to hold up the stars. Watermelon is very healthy and beneficial to someone who has been out in the sun all day. This is because Watermelon is high in water content and helps to hydrate the body. Watermelon also contains a high level of all-natural lycopene which is shown in early research to help possibly help reduce incidence of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

4. Stay Hydrated and Remember Sunscreen!! Being out in the sun, sometimes, we tend to forget how long we have been outside when we are enjoying ourselves. Remember to stay safe by drinking a lot of water so that you do not dehydrate your body. We also recommended Sunscreen so you will not need Aloe to the Rescue when the day of celebration is over.

Global Warming may cause man to change into Hobbit-like form

55 million years ago when greenhouse gases increased at todays rate,the fossil deposits tell that this happened, 30 scientists have reported. This adaptation avoided starvation and increased sexuality among youth to safeguard the species. Because of this, many have turned to dwarfism as well.

To your health: The New Rules of Fitness for 2013

We’ve entered 2013, and yet most of us think of exercise like it’s 1991. Let’s toss out the old and welcome the new.

The old: long sessions of jogging, or marathon sessions on the elliptical machine or treadmill, or working every bodypart individually on a dozen different weight machines and dumbbell stations, doing circuits in a women-oriented fitness center, taking dance-aerobic or kickboxing-aerobic classes.

There’s nothing wrong with all that, but it’s not how we live today. Today, we live online, in a world of Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Pinterest, of Gmail and iPhones. The way we live and think online isn’t at all how we think about fitness.

Let’s take a cue from how we actually live and think today, and change up fitness. Let’s rethink things for 2013.

The New Rules of Fitness

If we take cues from our online world today, here’s how we’d do fitness (and some of us are already doing it this way):

1. Small. In the world of tweets and SMS messages, long classess or gym workouts or jogging sessions just don’t seem to fit. We don’t have time for all of that. So toss out the workout, and instead think of fitness as small as a tweet. Sprint up a hill after getting off the train or parking your car. Sprint up a flight of stairs as you go into the office. Do some pushups before a meeting. Do some squats after sitting for 30 minutes. Pick up a friend, put him on your shoulders, and carry him for a block. Let’s call it a fitness bit instead of a workout.

2. Social. We rarely do anything online or offline without sharing it, or collaborating with others. So share your fitness bits, or do them with others. Play a sport. Find a place where others are sharing their fitness bits too (it’s probably where you’re already sharing other stuff).

3. Distributed. Everything is out there in the cloud these days, not just on one server but distributed across many. But when we schedule a workout, we schedule it at just one time. So 1990s. Instead, do bits throughout the day, distributed among all the other little tasks you’re doing. Do some yoga sun salutations in the morning, a bit of walking or sprinting on the way to work, some bodyweight exercises at your desk (or in front of your living room couches for us work-at-home bums), some basketball or walking/running with friends after work, some chinups at home in the evening. It breaks up all the sitting you usually do, which is a good thing.

4. Fun. We do most of our stuff online because it’s fun. Or at least, I do. I love reading good stuff online, or collaborating with friends, or sharing something interesting I’ve found or thought about. So why is fitness so boring to so many people? They’re doing it wrong. It’s fun as hell. If you’ve been doing exercise you hate, find something funner: a sport, playing with your kids, walking or running with a good friend, a new challenge with a group of friends.

5. Open. Let’s toss out the days when companies had proprietary, secret methods for getting you in shape, and you had to hire a trainer to tell you what to do because he had all the knowledge and you didn’t. Instead, let’s share our best methods, learn from each other, improve on each other’s methods and share those. Let’s find a good way, like open-source software has, to collaborate and share our fitness methods.

6. Exportable. These days, the best services allow you to export your data anytime you want, and you can take that data anywhere you want to take it (yes I know some services don’t do that, but those guys suck). So let’s do the same with fitness —instead of having to do your workout at a gym, or a track, or a yoga studio or crossfit gym or some other specific place … be able to take your workout anywhere. You can do bodyweight exercises anywhere … do yoga poses anywhere … do chinups at the playground or on a tree branch … sprint up a hill or some stairs … walk briskly anywhere. Be fluid with your fitness and be able to adapt to wherever you are.

7. Fast. We work with unprecedented speed online these days. If a page takes 10 seconds to load, it’s too slow. That was unimaginable 15 years ago! So let’s get our fitness to move at the same speed: remove all the barriers to doing a fitness bit. Page speed comes when you remove all the heavy stuff from a page or app — so remove the heavy stuff that slows you down before accessing the fitness bit. What are some of the barriers?Having to go to a gym, sign up for a class, get some clothes or equipment. Instead, you should remove anything that keeps you from doing a fitness bit right now, or at any moment you want to do it.

Those are the new rules of fitness, and they will keep you active, all the time, if you give them a try.

If you’re interested in starting the fitness habit in 2013, check out my Simple Fitness Habit course, with a panel of fitness experts, a mini-course on how to form fitness habits, and a diet portion called The Mindful Diet.

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