Yogurt, enzymes and BIG COW!

Have you noticed lately, how yogurt is being marketed to young women to aid digestion? Yogurt provides live enzymes that help to digest food and provide healthy flora in your digestive tract. Even Silk Yogurt, a vegan brand, has jumped on the bandwagon, touting live cultures to aid digestion.
You know what else has live enzymes? Nearly every raw food and vegetable. Sprouts, nuts and raw fruit and vegetables can provide that same ease to your digestion that over-processed dairy and soy-based foods can. Squeezing lemon in your water every morning or putting a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in water, with a little agave syrup can perform the same function. Eating chewable papaya enzynme tablets is a yummy, (note the word usage) cheap way to add enzymes to your diet.

This over-saturation of the dairy section in your grocery store, with brands like Activa and Nutriva, whatever, are merely ploys to get people to eat MORE dairy. Wake up people! Instead of having a salad with fresh veggies, indulge in an over-processed, sugary snack that will help you to digest even more dairy. Go figure. Are people too lazy to eat fresh foods, opting for conveneince? Well, in America yes. If it's on TV it must be good for you.

social tagging, abbreviations and identity

Today I saw two MGB's walking down the street.

Let's break it down: M= Male G=Gay B=Blipster.

What is a Blipster? A blipster is a black hipster. I did not make this up; last year the New York Times published an article on blipsters in Brooklyn.

I used to think that hipsters were fashionable artists, but the term has evolved to encompass all that is trendy today, now.
Once upon a time, hipsters shopped at thrift stores and played used guitars in moldy basements, but now they just prance around wearing $200 jeans and a brand-new a la mode $100 scarf that will be so out by Fall.
Every city will be experience their version of the hipster implosion in the coming year(s), if not already. It's another fashion trend that already ended. Enough already!

old becomes new.

Let me just start by saying I'm not watching American Idol this season. Sometimes I might stop for a few minutes, hear what Paula and Simon says, listen to an ear-curdling performance. But I'm not watching it.
Last week, what I did see/hear was a cover of "Hallelujah", the Jeff Buckley version. Not that bad, I guess. (Simon loved it). Wouldn't you know today on iTunes, "Hallelujah" was the number one song? Ha, isn't it odd how old things become new.

Now if only Simon could convince the male populous that unbuttoning your shirt to the navel and baring your waxed chest was in again.

unfortunate fashion

Will this legging phase ever phase-out? This pervasive trend has everyone from infants to grandmothers in its clutches. Honestly, I don't think I can take seeing another over-weight woman in her twenties rockin' colorful leggings with an oversized T-shirt. There is nothing revolutionary about the way you look girlfriend!...In fact you kind of resemble Roseanne Barr back in her hey-day. My suggestion: Get off the couch and try to squeeze into a pair of jeans, save the rest of us from the eye sores that you've become. Just by being slightly original, you can stop supporting corporate machines like American Apparel and Urban Outfitters. We can build a better world, one less pair of leggings at a time.