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Daylight Saving Time

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At 2 am this Sunday, you should have reset your clocks, watches and cuckoos a single hour ahead thanks to Daylight Savings Time.

The annual tradition, which some call "Summer Time," allows us to have more daylight hours each day during the warmer months of the year. It's not always on the same date, but begins on the second Sunday of March each year.

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Macrobiotic Diet

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A macrobiotic diet is generally vegetarian. A macrobiotic diet consists largely of whole grains, cereals, and cooked vegetables. A macrobiotic diet can lower fat intake and increase fiber. There is no available scientific evidence to support claims that a macrobiotic diet is effective in treating cancer.

A macrobiotic diet is considered more of a way of life than just a diet. An important goal being to balance the yin and yang, the two elementary and complementary forms of energy that must be balanced in order to achieve health and vitality.

A macrobiotic diet in part is based on dietary principles of simplicity and avoidance of "toxins" that come from eating dairy products, meats, and oily foods. Early versions of the macrobiotic diet included several stages that became progressively more restrictive and ending with a diet of brown rice and water (the ultimate in yin and yang). Today, the Americanized version is a modified vegetarian plan, still discouraging dairy products, heavy meats, and refined sugars.

What can be eaten on a macrobiotic diet?

* Whole grains, especially brown rice: 50%-60%
* Vegetables (and seaweed): 25%-30%
* Beans: 5%-10%
* Fish, nuts, seeds, fruits, miso soup: 5%-20%
* Soup (made from ingredients above): 1-2 cups/day

The fruits and vegetables in macrobiotic diet should be organically grown. You should try to get locally grown food. Prepare and eat the foods in the traditional manner such as baking, boiling, and steaming; not microwaved. It is preferred that pots, pans, and utensils made only from certain materials such as wood, glass, ceramic, stainless steel, and enameled pieces.

Eating slowly and chewing the food thoroughly.

Excluded foods are any processed foods, fatty meats (ie red meats), most dairy, sugars, coffee, caffeinated tea, stimulating beverages, alcohol, chocolate, refined flour, very hot spices, chemicals and preservatives, eggs and poultry. Some vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, asparagus, spinach, beets, zucchini, and avocados are excluded. Fruits that does not grow locally, such as bananas, pineapples and other tropical fruits are discouraged.

Vitamin and mineral supplements are frowned upon, but may be needed to get good nutritional balance. You may want to consult a registered dietitian to help you balance the yin-yang and nutritional completeness of your macrobiotic diet plan so that you don’t end up with nutritional deficiencies.

Source from http://www.emaxhealth.com/1024/1/29499/macrobiotic-diet-no-evidence-cancer-cure.html

Yamaha's Bostrom wins 68th Daytona 200

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Ben Bostrom won the first night Daytona 200 for the Yamaha team on Friday at Daytona International Speedway, taking the lead on the 53rd of 57 laps in the AMA Pro Daytona SportBike opener.

Bostrom gave Yamaha its first Daytona 200 triumph since 1998 when Scott Russell claimed his fifth and final 200 victory. In addition, Bostrom became the first rider to win the Daytona 200 from the pole since Miguel Duhamel in 2005.

Yamaha team mate Josh Herrin was second, and M4 Suzuki rider Jason DiSalvo finished third in the 68th running of the event.

U2 Good Morning America

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I joined a rock & roll band so I could get out of going to college,” Bono told students at New York’s Fordham University at 8 a.m. this morning, during a somewhat-secret six-song U2 set at the school’s picturesque Bronx campus that was aired on Good Morning America. “Maybe if it looked like this, and felt like this, things could have been different,” he added.

The show — which capped the band’s first-week publicity blitz for its new No Line on the Horizon — took place on the steps of the university’s gothic Keating Hall, in front of a snowy, packed quad of Fordham students and staff. A Fordham ID was required to enter the School of Rock-esque spectacle. “Edge, what would have been your major?” Bono asked. The guitarist’s response: a “Major key.”

Bono and Co. tore through three tracks off of No Line on the Horizon (”Get On Your Boots,” “Magnificent,” and “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”), receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from the crowd of ecstatic students who may have still been in shock that classes were canceled for a surprise U2 concert at “Edward’s Parade,” a popular quad where students usually play Frisbee or catch rays. “I hope you like our new direction,” Bono told students before jumping into their second song. (Check out photos from U2’s Fordham gig — and the rest of their big week in the Big Apple.)

Students lined up as early as 1:30 a.m. to land a spot close to the band, and started chanting for “Bono!” as the sun came up. Despite their sleeplessness, students went wild, jumping around with Bono and maintaining their high energy throughout the show. Most of the college crowd seemed unfamiliar with the new songs, but ecstatic about the performance nonetheless. “Everyone probably downloaded U2’s new album last night,” said Andrew Inks, a Fordham junior.

“This song was written about Fordham University’s campus,” Bono said before introducing one of the new tunes. “Particularly Friday nights at the Fordham University campus. It’s called ‘I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight.’ ” Students caught onto the words (”Every generation gets a chance to change the world”) and appropriately screamed along.

“We started our band in high school. This is exactly where we come from,” Bono said during a brief interview with Good Morning America, which took place halfway through the set. Edge added, “We ended up recording in Morocco, New York City, London. We follow the inspiration, so here we are.” Larry Mullen Jr. also explained that his father would be pleased that he finally made it to college. Following the interview came “Beautiful Day,” “Breathe,” and “Vertigo,” all of which kept student body singing along madly.

Good Morning America chose Fordham for the segment for its location and “warmth.” But as a Catholic and Jesuit university dedicated to graduating “men and women for others,” it is particularly fitting that U2 would perform at Fordham. “U2 transcends rockstardom,” said Fordham-president Father McShane, S.J. “They are deeply committed to social justice and advocacy.” McShane added that the band represents a group who display “great joy in life by giving back to others.” U2’s performance brought Fordham into 4.5 million homes this morning, “rightly putting Fordham on the map,” McShane said — and helping the campus justify its 2007 Newsweek title of “Hottest Catholic School in America.”

Source information from www.rollingstone.com