Quoted: Why are we—Americans—so anxious to find justifications for drinking wine beyond the fact that it tastes good and we like it?

A few surprising items on this list ...

Quoted: Put down that brown muffin! Forget those fruit smoothies! Men's Health magazine shares smart alternatives for secretly fattening foods you might not be aware of.

OMG! OMG! OMG! I'm NEVER using hotel glasses again. They do NOT clean them at all. I always talk about this kind of thing and everyone thinks I'm crazy, but it's true! Hotel rooms only need to *look* clean. The maids are basically touching your glasses with gloves they've used to clean toilets too. The health expert guy lists all the terrible things you can get from drinking off the glasses. Watch the video!

Dotting this for Rob, who knows the evils of Outback Steakhouse ... you were right!

Quoted: There's a war against your waistline.  Get armed by Men's Health magazine.

Another heart-warming move from our "Christian" president. Giving a giant f*** you to the poor, we expect from a Republican, but poor, sick KIDS is a new low. I'd love for him to to talk to some of these "higher-income families" -- probably mostly single mother households where she has to work two jobs to stay afloat. Having two or more jobs so you can maybe make $30K a year does not make you a high-income family...and god forbid your kid has a serious illness. But, let's keep spending billions of dollars to bomb other countries. Seems like something Jesus would do.

Quoted: Bush argued that the congressional plan would be a move toward socialized medicine by expanding the program to higher-income families.

Yay! An easy to use BMI calculator.

I wonder if either one really helps you lose weight.

Quoted: Researchers said on Thursday they had found more ways to activate the body's own anti-aging defenses -- perhaps with a pill that could fight multiple diseases at once.