225 - The number of Calories you can burn in one hour of walking at a moderate pace. Something to think about while you’re out holiday shopping this year. Shop ‘n Burn, baby!
Source: food & family, holiday 2006.
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$36.78 - Average cost of ingredients needed to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal — including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie, and trimmings — for 10 people.
Tags: interesting trivia, Thanksgiving
54 - Percent increase in long-distance travel over Thanksgiving, compared with the rest of the year.
91 - Percentage of these trips taken by car.
214 - Average number of miles per trip.
91 - Percentage of kids ages 5 to 13 who say they enjoy family trips because of the extra time they have with their parents.
45 - Percentage who won’t go without an MP3 player.
Source: Health, November, 2006
Tags: Thanksgiving, interesting trivia, travel
400 million - Pounds of cranberries that Americans eat each year.
20 - Percent of those eaten during Thanksgiving week.
206 - Approximate number of cranberries used in a 6-ounce glass of fresh cranberry juice.
Source: Health, November, 2006
Tags: Thanksgiving, cranberries, interesting trivia
90 - Percentage of people who consider their pet dog or cat to be a family member.
60 - Percentage of pets that are overweight.
45 - Percent of owners of overweight pets who say their pet is in “ideal” shape.
Source: Health, Nov. 2006.
You mean there are people who don’t think that their pets aren’t part of the family?
Of course, now I’m wondering when the t.v. shows for helping your pets lose weight are going to start on Animal Planet. I mean, you can already buy doggy treadmills — People, just walk your
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I’m a worry-wart. I worry about all kinds of things and I can’t turn it off. I worry about whether or not my cats hate me. I worry about whether or not my co-workers are talking about me. I worry about whether or not the world is going to blow up today or if my house is going to burn down or if my headache means I’m getting a brain tumor.
I’m in therapy. At least I’m trying to get a grip, but it turns out that there are a lot of people who worry about
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping, risks, accidents, health, cancer, fear, interesting trivia
244 - Average percent markup between the actual cost of a hospital visit or stay and what the hospital bills for it.
680 - Average percent markup at the nation’s 100 most expensive hospitals.
9 - Percentage of people in the last year who negotiated with a hospital to get their bills lowered.
70 - Percentage of those who say it worked.
Source: Health, June, 2006.
Tags: interesting trivia, healthcare, hospital costs
My mom is one of those God-awful early-risers. You know, those people who are awake before 5 am and have had breakfast, are dressed, and have read the paper and gotten started on the day by 7 am? Those are my parents.
The battle to sleep in on Saturday mornings began the moment I turned pre-teen. Or maybe it was when Saturday morning cartoons stopped being interesting. I don’t know. Either way, I always wanted to sleep until 10am or later. My Mom thought sleeping past 7am was a crime against nature.
Even after I moved out, it was not unusual for
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Want to volunteer this holiday season? These organizations allow you to punch in your zip code and find an opportunity close to home:
Source: Woman’s Day, December, 2006.
Tags: Volunteer, American Red Cross, America's Second Harvest, charity
According to today’s Parade magazine, the UBS Bank calculated how long it takes an average worker around the world to earn enough to buy a Big Mac. If you live in Tokyo, apparently you can have a Big Mac soonest.
| City | Minutes |
| Tokyo | 10 |
| New York | 13 |
| London | 16 |
| Hong Kong | 17 |
| Paris | 21 |
| Moscow | 25 |
| Rome | 39 |
| Beijing | 44 |
| Manila | 81 |
| Jakarta | 86 |
Tags: Big Mac, McDonalds, world economy, interesting trivia
Protect yourself. To help prevent others from making fraudulent purchases with your credit card, instead of signing the back of your credit card, write “Ask for ID.” Cashiers are required to request to see photo ID to prove you are who belongs to the credit card.
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40 - Percentage of employees who say they eat more unhealthy snacks at work than they do at home.
Source: Careerbuilder.com via Eating Well, December, 2006.
23- Percentage your risk of obesity increases for every two hours of tv watching per day.
Source: Fitness, March, 2006.
14 - Average number of bras a woman owns.
6 - Average number she wears regularly.
8 - Number out of every 10 women who are wearing the wrong size bra.
Source: Health, October, 2006.
Tags: bras
71 - Percentage of people in a British study willing to trade their office-computer password for a candy bar
1 - Rank of Snickers bars among most popular vending-machine snacks
Source: Health, September, 2006
Tags: candy, interesting trivia
20 - Percentage of U.S. restaurant meals that were purchased from a car in 2005.
32 - Restaurant meals, per year, the average American actually consumes in the car.
24.7 - Minutes that the average American connutes to work each day.
3 - The increased risk of obesity that you incur for every 30 minutes you spend sitting in the car each day.
Source: Eating Well, October/November, 2006.
Tags: obesity, interesting trivia, eating out
52 - Percentage of Americans who can name at least two members of the cartoon Simpsons family.
28 - Percentage of Americans who can name at least two freedoms granted in the First Amendment.
21 - Percentage who believe the right to own a pet is one of them.
Source: Health, July/August, 2006.
Tags: First Amendement, The Simpsons, Freedoms, trivia
52 - Percentage of Americans living in eastern states who’d rather have Bill Cinton as their dad than George W. Bush.
28 - Percentage who would pick Bush.
45 - Percentage of Southerners who’d choose Bush over Clinton as their dad.
29 - Percentage who would want Clinton.
Source: Health, June, 2006.
Tags: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush
Migraine Attacks cause an estimated 112 million bedridden days a year.
Source: Woman’s Day, April 18, 2006, p. 50
Tags: migraine
Vindicated at last! Pardon me while I recharge my Starbucks card.
(HealthDay News) — Your morning cup of java may be one of the healthiest beverages in your diet, as more studies show the health benefits of coffee.
Two cups a day of coffee may promote heart health, decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes, and reduce leg pain related to exercise in many people, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Researchers have also been investigating the possibility that coffee could protect against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The beverage is one of the richest sources of antioxidants in the
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