75 best foods to keep you in the fat-burning zone

Cut out the starchy carbs. Forget the grains. Focus on Meat, Leaves, and Berries for feedings.



Nothing to eat? So, we came up with a non-all-inclusive yet comprehensive list of foods that fall under “Meat, Leaves, and Berries”, and therefore are good to eat to maintain a fat-burning environment in your body (of course, some are better than others and we highlight these nutritional superstars in our book, The Black Book of Secrets).



Here, in no particular order, are the first 50 foods we could think of that count as a “Meat”, a “Leaf”, or a “Berry.”



Red Meat (grass-fed is best):

1) Beef (includes the ground-up stuff. Hamburger without the bun, anyone?)

2) Lamb

3) Bison

4) Ostrich (yes, ostrich. Come to think of it, Kangaroo and Emu are pretty damn tasty too)

5) Venison (or other wild game)



Poultry (free-range is best):

6) Turkey

7) Chicken

8) Duck

9) Wild fowl like squab, quail, pheasant, etc.

10) EGGS (one of the all-stars right here)



Pork:

11) Pork Chops/tenderloin

12) Bacon (yes, bacon! Don’t go eating 10 packs in one sitting, but from time to time it’s fine)

13) Ham (especially prosciutto – however, avoid most mainstream processed deli meats as they are high in salt and potentially harmful preservatives)

14) Sausage (One of Mike’s favorites; don’t overindulge - again, use common sense and exercise control)



Fish and Seafood:

15) Wild salmon (avoid farm-raised if you can as they are high in inflammatory Omega-6 fatty acids)

16) Mackerel

17) Sardines (get the ones packed in sardine oil for maximum Omega-3 content; avoid the ones packed in vegetable oil at all costs)

18) Tuna

19) Shrimp

20) Mollusks (clams, mussels, scallops, oysters, etc.)



“Leaves” (packed with fiber):

21) Arugula

22) Asparagus

23) Beets

24) Broccoli

25) Brussels sprouts

26) Cabbage

27) Carrots

28) Cauliflower

29) Celery

30) Green beans

31) Kale

32) Leeks

33) Mushrooms

34) Onions

35) Peppers

36) Spinach

37) Squash

38) Swiss chard

39) Watercress

40) Snow peas

41) Garlic

42) Zucchini

43) Cucumbers

44) Endive



“Berries”:

45) Blueberries

46) Cranberries

47) Blackberries

48) Strawberries

49) Raspberries

50) Goji Berries (by now you can tell that anything with “berry” as the descriptor is likely a berry)



After listing these 50 foods we realized there were quite a few others that didn’t strictly fall into “meat, leaves, and berries” but were ok nonetheless. (BTW, you get a downloadable food chart and our special report, The Dark Side of Dieting when you subscribe to our weekly newsletter, free) They are listed here:



Other awesome fruit (eat in moderation due to higher sugar content):

51) Apples (especially green apples)

52) Grapefruit

53) Avocado

54) Kiwifruit

55) Watermelon

56) Honeydew



Nuts (eat in moderation due to high calorie density; they work excellent as between-meal snacks):

57) Almonds

58) Walnuts

59) Brazil nuts

60) Cashews

61) Macadamia nuts

62) Pecans

63) Sesame seeds



Fats (use in moderation due to high calorie density, but don’t be scared of using them!):

64) Butter (or it’s clarified cousin, ghee)

65) Flaxseed oil (use on salads)

66) Extra virgin olive oil (high in Omega-3s, but don’t cook with it.)

67) Coconut oil (use this or ghee to cook with)

68) Fish oil (Carlson’s Oil rocks – it has a light, lemony flavor)



Dairy (obviously avoid if you’re lactose intolerant):

69) Full-fat yogurt (low-fat and fat-free contain too much sugar)

70) Cheeses (real ones, not “pasteurized cheese products” or “cheese food”)

71) Cottage cheese



Other:

72) Whey protein isolate (great for pre/post workout nutrition)

73) Flax seeds (grind these up and add to salads, yogurt, cottage cheese for fiber)

74) Green foods/phyto foods (optimize pH, purify your cells, and get a boatload of enzymes and antioxidants while you’re at it)

75) Green tea (your antioxidant/metabolic-accelerator solution)



So there you have it – a non-all-inclusive yet comprehensive list of 75 foods you can eat and still maintain a fat-burning environment in your body. I’m sure you can pick 12 or 13 foods you like out of the 75 and create a dizzying array of menus and meals for the week around them. Remember, we didn’t even mention spices and seasonings, nor preparation methods. You can create literally thousands of combinations.

Iverson Home 4 Sale/Rasheed Wallace Home 4 Sale

Click on title to see pics of home.

Today is the latest in a long series of sports star homes lingering on the market. Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson has been looking to sell his home in Villanova, Pennsylvania for a year now. I first heard about it last year when the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties column first reported on it.

Now a year later the same column reveals that Iverson has dropped the price on the 14,000 square foot home to a desperation price of $4 million. That's $1 million less than the former Philadelphia 76er and his wife Tawanna paid for it in 2003. The six-bedroom home is on four acres that include a pool house, stream and waterfall.The chateau-style home on Chateau Lane has four levels including a great room with floor-to-ceiling Palladian windows.


The master suite has his and hers marble bathrooms, a coffee bar, media area and a veranda overlooking the grounds. There are four additional en-suite bedrooms and a separate guest quarters with a bedroom, living room and kitchenette. The entertainment level has a 12-seat movie theater, billiard room, and a lounge with a custom wood carved bar accommodating 200+ wine bottles. It is now listed at $3.999 million.



Continuing my look at sports star homes lingering on the market, this week's WSJ Private Properties column also mentioned the home of Rasheed Wallace, a Detroit Pistons forward who played for eight years with the Portland Trail Blazers. Wallace bought his 1924 brick house in Portland, Oregon for around $3 million back in 2000. The Tudor-style home is on 2.16 acres that include a pool, sports court and guest house.
The five-bedroom home has a red home theater, built-in saltwater fish tank, home office and more. The listing agent told the WSJ that Wallace and his wife Fatima spent more than $1 million on improvements.

The couple briefly listed the house in 2006 for $5.5 million before relisting it last year, for $5.2 million and have now lowered the price to $4.895 million.


























The View is the worst show on the air..I don't blame her for coming with a list of questions they could not ask..Like the time Brandy was on there and they wanted to see her tattoos and wanted to know if her hair was real....Get out of here....
Rosey should have beat that ass....



Black Enterprise names 20 best places to retire
By DAVID PITT – 1 day ago

The magazine, the most recent national publication to release a list of desirable retirement spots, considered a number of factors when tabulating its annual list of Durham, N.C., has topped the list of Black Enterprise magazine's 20 best places to retire, based on quality of life, affordable health care and other considerations."20 Best Places to Retire" in the October issue.

The other top seven locations — Charlottesville, Va., Ann Arbor, Mich., Nashville, Tenn.; Lexington, Ky.; Roswell, Ga. and Columbia, Mo. — also received the magazine's best score for quality of life, which included housing prices, public schools, crime levels, traffic congestion and commercial air access.The rankings, in a survey created by the magazine's editors, gave places 40 percent of the total score for quality of life, 20 percent for health care, and 15 percent each for taxes and leisure. Arts & Culture and climate were each given 5 percent of the total score.

Many of the 20 locations are in the South, where the climate can be milder, although a few locations are in the Upper Midwest or Northeast, which received high scores for quality of life but lower marks for climate.

Editor-In-Chief Derek Dingle said the goal was to present readers retirement options with high quality of life standards, quality health care and low taxes so they could stretch their retirement nest egg further.In addition, many of the cities are near metropolitan areas with access to historically black colleges and universities "where they can engage in leisure and arts and cultural activities, areas for our audience that had some African American orientation."

Black Enteprise magazine has about 525,000 paid subscribers and 4 million readers, predominantly African Americans. Entrepreneurs and business owners make up than a third of the readership.

Other publications highlight factors such as affordability and desirability of locales in making their own assessments of possible retirement spots.

Money Magazine, in its report, broke up retirement destinations by category, including a group of six towns on the water: Dunedin, Fla.; Sequim, Wash.; St. Joseph, Mich.; Beaufort, S.C.; Durango, Colo.; and Marble Falls, Texas.Money also has a list of places for most affordable homes and those towns in which you can expect to live a long life, including two counties in Iowa and two in Minnesota. Locations in Maryland, Florida, Oregon, Virginia, California and Hawaii also made Money's list.

U.S. News & World Report highlighted locations ranging from Bozeman, Mont., which tops its list, to Concord, N.H., Fayetteville, Ark. and Hillsboro, Ore.

Research by the AARP, a nonprofit organization for people age 50 and older, indicates that a large majority of retirees won't move at all, and if they do, they likely won't go far.

In a 2006 study based on more than 1,200 interviews and Census data, the AARP said nine out of 10 people 60 and older stayed in the same home or within the same county.

Nancy Thompson, a spokeswoman for AARP, said retirees should keep several factors in mind when contemplating a move, including whether a home as a no-step entry and bedroom on the main floor, in case a person should become less mobile, as well as access to public transportation and walkable pathways in the community should the person become unable to drive.

Anyone For Donkey Milk???

Where did I get this from? I was watching the Discover network with Andrew Zimmerman.

He is known to eat Donkey Meat...He said it taste like Pot Roast LOL!...But today he walking down the street and This guy was selling fresh warm Donkey Milk pulled from the Donkey right before your eyes LOL!And he said it was still warm and tasted good..
He said he was Liquid Viagra....

Donkey's Milk Coming to the US...

"Just so you know, donkey's milk is coming to the US! Raw donkey milk is going great guns in France and Belgium. Marie Tack in Belgium sells donkey milk that meets European bacteriological standards.I visited two farms in France and drank milk directly from many burros (delicious!). I will go to Belgium next year to visit Marie myself who milks 50 head of mammoth jennets each day. Donkey milk is the closest milk to human breast milk and is ideal for feeding infants. It is in a state of rediscovery in France and Belgium and will be available here in the future. Donkeys don't carry bovine diseases. Visit www.asineriedupaysdescollines.be to see her operation."






It remains to be seen whether this will catch on in the United States and if the milk will be offered unpasteurized. Readers who have additional information about donkey milk in the US, please email the Weston A. Price Foundation at info@westonaprice.org.

2009 Maserati GranTurismo S: An Italian Virtuoso

This is a short clip of the 2009 Maserati...I love this car! When I hit the Lottery I am going to get that joint in Red....Enjoy the video!!

Chocolate City Travel & Entertainment Presents...

4th Annual No Sleep Ski Weekend
Lloyd Calling All Girls Around the World to the Inn @ Pocono Manor
February 27 - March 1, 2009

Don't miss this trip...

It can't get no better than this... 17 hours open bar...

In plus you get your own bottle for the room of your choice...

Prices start at $339/pp...

Call us now, payments being accepted now and payment plans in effect

I guess this should be a great party...


Money Monday: 5 Ways to Boost Your Credit Score
Posted by TheDad on September 8th, 2008 in Debt and Dating, Home





Your credit score is one of the most important factors in your financial life. The current recession makes it even harder for consumers to get approved for a loan or line of credit which is why it is so crucial to have good credit.

If you have good credit and can afford to make purchases during this time you can get some great deals. However, if you are already in debt, don’t have an emergency fund, savings account or retirement account you need to reevaluate your spending habits. While you are working on improving your spending habits you can also follow these 5 tips to boost your credit score so when the time is right you can make a purchase and get the best deal possible.

1. Change your mindset. You have to change the way your currently spend money and develop good spending habits so you make good choices when making purchases, buy in terms of needs vs. wants.

2. Get current on late bills. Pay old or late accounts immediately. Setup payment plans for bills that cannot be paid in full.

3. Establish credit. Open a secured account if you have bad credit or no credit to re-establish credit history. Use non-traditional forms of credit to establish history such as Pay Rent Buy Credit (Payment Reporting Builds Credit), www.pbrc.com.

4. Keep balances low. Keep your credit card balances at 50% or below the credit limit. This shows you have good spending habits are not seen as a credit risk.

5. Don’t open new accounts. Don’t open any new accounts more than once every year when trying to improve your credit history. You will be seen as a credit risk and this will lower your credit score.


This is another guest post installment by author and financial expert Harrine Freeman. Be sure to check back next Monday for another.

Superbowl Winner Cowboys

Boys rings
Originally uploaded by yahesjenkins

Week One Of The NFL

Week One OF The NFL Season WOW!!!

I think we the Pats will still make the playoffs due to there week schedule...
I think some teams will return to there orginal form.The Falcons were a big surprise
I think they turn back to there old self I think they go 8-8.

I think the Redskins will suck as always....The Bengals will have a down year thier teams looks bad...The wideouts look bad also...They have a hard schdeule this year also.Now I think Pittsburg Steelers may be on the up and Up..I think that the Superbowl will come down to Chrgers Vs Dallas..


The Bears may be back also they looked good this past Sunday...
The Rams look bad....WOW....The chiefs hey maybe we are not that bad....

Culpepper

Culpepper
Originally uploaded by davisjeremy@att.net

Drop The Hambuger And Fries....Brady Out For The Year You Can Get It A Look!!!

Tom Brady Season Done

Tom Brady has a torn MCL and ACL 8 month recovery..I think they call Culpepper he has played with Randy Moss..You heard it here first.....This happnen in week one its 15 more weeks to go...





Donte Drop The Hamburger

Breaking News Marion Jones Out Of Halfway House

SAN ANTONIO - Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones was released Friday from federal prison after completing most of her six-month sentence for lying about her steroid use.

Jones left a halfway house in San Antonio around 8 a.m., said LaTanya Robinson, a community corrections manager for the federal Bureau of Prisons. Jones, who has a house in Austin, will remain on probation.

Jones' attorney did not immediately respond to a call or e-mail from The Associated Press requesting comment.

The sprinter admitted last October that she used a designer steroid known as "the clear" from September 2000 to July 2001. The drug was linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab that became the center of a steroids scandal that touched numerous professional athletes, including baseball star Barry Bonds

I am sure she happy shes out I am happy for her.Not sure where she goes from here though can not return to the running I dont think.After seeing how the women from the us ran this year she might be on the same level...

Black Voters

Eight Million Blacks Still Not Registered To Vote

NNPA, News Report, Hazel Trice Edney , Posted: Sep 02, 2008

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite record numbers of voters who turned out during the presidential primaries last spring, eight million African Americans are still not registered to vote.

This according to Rick Wade, African American vote director for the Obama for America presidential campaign.

“Our principle focus has been a 50-state voter registration initiative. I think we all appreciate that if we increase the number of African American registered voters and then increase turnout and get people to the polls on Nov. 4, then Sen. Obama will be the next president of the United States,” Wade says.

Wade explains that the eight million unregistered Black voters accounts for 32 percent of eligible Black voting population nationwide.

“In 2004, African Americans made up approximately 11 percent of the overall vote nationwide. If the percentage of African Americans was a mere two-and-a-half percent higher at 13-and-a-half percent, Democrats would currently be running for re-election at this time,” he said. “For example in the state of Ohio in 2004, we lost by two percent or 100,000 votes. There were 270,000 unregistered African Americans. I use that as an illustration to show how the African American vote can make the difference in a state and across this country.So the African American vote can absolutely make the difference in this election.''

But, the Democrats are not alone in going after the Black vote. Republicans, who barely get a tenth of Black voters in presidential elections, say they are not giving up.

''The [Republican National Convention] is working to turn out voters of all races to support Sen. John McCain and all of our Republican candidates, by focusing on using a strong grassroots program that relies on neighbor to neighbor interactions, putting out surrogates on a daily basis, and registering and mobilizing voters,” says RNC spokesman Sean Conner. “Chairman Duncan has visited 38 states in the last 16 months, and our Party’s nominee has participated in important African American national events such as the NAACP conference and the National Urban League Convention. We’re looking forward to increased support from the African American community, and will compete for each vote within the various ethnic communities of our country.''

As both parties prepare for grassroots mobilization efforts at their back to back conventions (Democrats, last week of August and Republican, first week of September), non-partisan groups have intensified their efforts with grassroots campaigns year round.

Melanie Campbell, executive director of the non-partisan National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, says because of the intensity of voter registration efforts, there’s a great possibility to take voter registration to a whole new level, particularly in the Black community, by intensifying voter education and focusing on issues.

“The potential is that you will create a whole new expanded electorate. It’s something that we’ve been trying to have happen for a lot of years,” Campbell says. “Because traditionally, there’s been about 15 million people not voting in the general election. So, this has potential for that number to go down tremendously…If the trend continues, because it’s so competitive, it’s going to drive the turn out and that’s going to be across all demographics.”

The intensity of the current election and get-out-to-vote efforts have caught fire from coast to coast and doesn’t begin and end with the presidential election.

“There’s elections from the school board to the presidency that impacts your life,” Campbell says. “We know the presidency is a big deal. But, it is one of many elections that’s taking place on Nov. 4.”

Hazel Trice Edney is the NNPA editor-in-chief.