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Health & Wellness Expo Apri1 14th 6-8pm
Pool Splash Bash July 24th 10am-12pm
Casino Night October 21st 7-9pm
Dive-In Movie May 29th 8-10pm
Meet & Greet August 26th 6-8pm
Heath & Wellness Expo November 11th 6-8pm
Jazz Under the Stars June 18th 7-9pm
Health & Wellness Expo September 16th 6-8pm
Holiday Party December 7th 6-8pm
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AZZ UNDER THE STARS FRIDAY, JUNE 18TH FROM 7-9PM!
A
re you ready for a night of pure relaxation? A night that is designed around offering you a night of pure enjoyment - Jazz Under The Stars. You will be able to listen to some soft Jazz tunes while laughing with your neighbors and friends. Invite your friends and family to this fantastic community event and make it even more special. As always you will enjoy some savory finger foods and delicious beverages. Dress casual and be comfortable. This is a night to melt away the stress and simply enjoy yourself and be as comfortable as possible. Since this is an outdoor event, it is dependent on the weather. The event is held around the pool. If it is heavily overcast or a strong chance for rain the event will be cancelled. Please call your leasing office the day of the event if there is any question of the weather. Pool is closed for event. So come on down, invite your friends and family and let’s have a great night together!!!!
P
OOL SPLASH BASH
SATURDAY, JULY 24TH FROM10AM-12PM!
T
he name says it all – Pool Splash Bash! Expect
this to be a popular event with no room for stress but plenty of room for you, your family and friends. C’mon out and enjoy the sunshine, music and FREE food and beverages. Sit by the pool and let the sun and friendships melt away your worries. When you start getting too hot, jump in the water and cool off. Just don’t get splash your food! We appreciate you living here and want to prove it. Invite your family and friends. Maybe even make them your new neighbors! Event is weather dependent - call your leasing office if any question as to the weather.
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Cascades on the River Community Manager: Lauren Strode
H
appy Summer! As always, your staff here at Cascades on the River would like to say thank you for your continued residency with us. To all of our recent graduates, CONGRATULATIONS!!! We wish you much luck as you begin your job search. As we enter into the summer months, we would like to remind everyone of a few things. Remember to drink lots of water. It is very hot outside, and we want everyone to stay hydrated. You are always welcome to drop by the office to say hello and get a cold, refreshing bottle of water. We would love to see you! Also, do not forget to bring your furry friends with you. We have treats for them too! Also, please remember to use caution at the pool and always abide by the rules posted. Most importantly, always make sure children are accompanied by an adult. We now have a pool monitor who will be checking on things, so please be courteous, introduce yourself, and please report any non-residents who are using the pool to the office staff. Do not forget to take advantage of the tennis court located next to the pool. Tennis is a great way to have fun while also getting some exercise. Do not forget to bring your sweat towel and water with you. Further, for those of you with pets, please make sure you are picking up after your pet. The hotter weather makes your pet waste particularly unpleasant should you not pick up after your furry friend. As a reminder, no pets are ever allowed in the pool area. Thank you to everyone who came out to our pool party on Saturday, May 29th. We had a great time! Our community event this month is Jazz Under The Stars. We will be hosting the event at the community pool on Friday, June 18th. There will be food, drinks, and lots of fun! We hope to see everyone there! As always, should you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please do not hesitate to stop by the office to speak with me. Thank you again and we will see you soon!
Leasing Associate: Bonnie Romaine Maintenance Technicians: Josue Lopez
Phone (706) 208.0647 Fax (678) 306-0636 Email
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thens is a great place to hang out for people of all ages. There is always something going on, so get out and enjoy your town! Below is a list of events for the month of June provided by the Athens Visitor Information Center. As You Like It
June 5, 2010 to June 12, 2010 Loop ride beginning and ending in Fayetteville with overnight stops in Griffin, Thomaston, Columbus (layover day), LaGrange, and Newnan. Classic City Rollergirls vs. Soul City Sirens (Augusta, GA) June 5, 2010 Athens own female flat-track roller derby league takes on Augusta.
June 1, 2010 to June 3, 2010 As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, is being presented by the University of Georgia’s Department of Theatre and Film. This pastoral comedy deals with issues of succession, melancholy, and nature, all while employing some of Shakespeare’s best verbal slapstick. Director Ray Paolino says it’s “perfect summer fare.”
Block Party brings together individuals, non-profit organizations, schools, religious organizations, and local government to celebrate the positive works done in the area, engage in discussing solutions to local issues, provide information to the low income community, and create valuable connections. Activities include free food, live music, dunk tank, moonwalk, informational fair, kids games, and more. AthFest Music and Arts Festival, 14th Annual
Mini Craft Fair
June 23, 2010 to June 27, 2010
June 5, 2010 to June 6, 2010
Experience over 175 bands on outdoor stages and in Athens’ renowned clubs. Original music, art, local film screenings, and KidsFest provide entertainment for all ages. Outdoor stages free; all-venue weekend wristbands available for sale.
Buy pottery, blown glass, fiber, metal, jewelry, paintings, drawings, bath products and plants and see daily demonstrations. National Trails Day on Cook’s Trail June 5, 2010
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Concerts on the Lawn: Corduroy Road
The Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services will celebrate National Trails Day by hosting a volunteer work day on Cook’s Trail. Volunteers will help restore parts of the trail, clear invasive vegetation and complete trail maintenance projects. Come out and lend a hand to help keep one of Athens’ hiking trails beautiful! Be sure to dress appropriately and bring a water bottle.
June 3, 2010
32nd Annual Snake Day
June 24, 2010 to June 26, 2010
June 5, 2010
The festival will feature original sculptures in a juried exhibition. Sculptures will be for sale.
6X6 Media Arts Event: Light June 2, 2010 6X6 is a monthly media arts event in Athens, Georgia, a cross between an art show and a film festival, first Wednesday of the month at Cine Lab. Six curated short video, film, performance, sound, or other time-based combination works.
Come out on beautiful summer nights for Ashford Manor’s Concerts on the Lawn series. Order your food, bring your beverage of choice, lay your blanket out under the stars and listen to the music. Chappelle Gallery Summer Open House June 5, 2010 to June 6, 2010 The annual mini craft fair includes Pottery, Blown Glass, Painting, Jewelry, Weaving, and more with demonstrations in pottery making, raku, weaving and painting. BRAG 2010
Flagpole Athens Music Awards June 24, 2010 Flagpole Magazine presents the annual award ceremony honoring Athens local musicians. Part of the annual AthFest music and art festival. First Annual Sculpture Festival
This popular annual event features a fun-filled afternoon exploring the misunderstood world of snakes! Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about venomous snakes and identification, touch a snake, explore the amazing diversity of snakes and enjoy snake-related crafts and games. Move To Improve Block Party June 18, 2010 In celebration of National Homeownership Month, Athens Area Habitat for Humanity will be hosting the third annual “Move To Improve” Block Party! Each year, this “Move To Improve”
Twilight Toasts in the Garden: Amazing Annuals June 24, 2010 Twilight Toasts is an eclectic event that combines a wine tasting, hors d’oeuvres, live music and an art exhibit in a tropical conservatory. The wine selection will be by Five Points Bottle Shop and hors d’oeuvres by Trumps Catering. In the Visitor Center and Conservatory.
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HIGH APR? Don’t Worry, You Can Still Negotiate! By David Ellis, June 5, 2010, CNN.com
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In
the
never-
“We
ending battle between credit card companies and their
customers over interest rates, consumers still hold
are
concerned
that
deeply these
at least some of the cards.
rules will result in less competition, higher consumer
Even
access to credit cards,” said
prices, fewer consumer choices, and reduced consumer
as issuers have gotten squeezed by historic loan
losses and hogtied by new federal rules introduced earlier this year, experts suggest that card-carrying
Americans
still have plenty of leeway to negotiate a
lower rate.
“I
[card
think
companies] will be just as willing now
as they have been,” said
executive during a
So
far, a number of those predictions have come to
pass.
Nick Bourke, director of the Safe Credit Cards Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Credit
In
bills.
the past, most cardholders had little difficulty
bartering with their bank on their annual percentage rate.
But
that
seemed
due
to
change
Congress in February
after
passed major new rules for the industry with the
As
part
CARD Act. of
the
new
law,
credit
card
were prevented from practices such as billing” and arbitrary rate increases.
Before
dreadful
consumers.
Congress
that a new law would
consequences
for
both
card companies started hiking rates last summer
in anticipation of tougher new rules, although the industry attributed the rate increase to the risk in lending to strapped consumers who can’t pay their
Rates
have moved even higher still.
issuers
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and
As
of last week,
the national average for a platinum card stood at
11.31%, according to Informa Research Services. Rewards cards stood at 12.33%. Just six months ago, those rates were 10.6% and 11.8% respectively. But Bourke are
not
pointed out that the recent increases
nearly
before the
lawmakers had even drafted a bill, the banking
industry warned have
companies
“double-cycle
Edward Yingling, chief of the American Bankers Association, said Congressional hearing in May 2008.
as
severe
CARD Act
those
was signed into
Despite
the uptick in rates,
experts
say
issuers
as
can’t
afford to be completely inflexible with customers
enacted
just
law.
looking for a lower rate.
For
starters,
Americans
at
individual
accounts still can vote with their
to
determine
feet and move their business elsewhere if they are
if
unhappy
can
Estimates
with
the
current
of
company.
different
offer
of cards available to consumers at more than
interest rate reduction.
according to the payments industry trade
publication the
number
card
customers an
At
the
credit
types
10,000,
put
they
The Nilson Report. time,
same
the
“We’ve
steady
improvement
in
the
economy in the past year has led to some relief for banks who had been weighed down by bad loans.
Industry to
be
month data
charge-offs,
uncollectible, of
April,
published
percentage
loans
fell
to
according
Americans
that
are behind on payments has also dropped in recent months.
With
banks
card
companies
no
longer
a
bank
10.91%
to
Moody’s. The
by
of
or
the
during
the
recent
“most
are
again
is
looking
to
add
said
credit losses coming down, what we are seeing
increased
competition
between
getting new business,” said executive with
spokesperson for
major
issuers
in
Papadimitriou, a former Capital One (COF, Fortune 500).
is
no
Discover.
different
today,”
said
a
course, negotiating a lower rate with a credit
card company will not prove easy for everyone.
Long-standing
with their bank”
Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of Evolution Finance, which publishes Cardhub.com, a credit card comparison site. “With
that
cardholders
little difficulty bartering
intently
once
and
cardholders had
focused on loan troubles, credit customers,
always been committed to helping cardmembers
need,
Of
considers
most
in
And
or
those
with
high
credit limits, for example, have typically been among the most successful in winning a lower rate
from
company.
their
Industry
credit
card
experts said
that probably holds true today.
while consumers whose credit got dinged by the
recession might not fare as well, those who simply kept up with their payments may also be able to talk their way into a lower
“If
APR.
you are somebody who is paying your bill on
time, using your card and carrying a balance, you
are a great customer for a credit card company,” said
Bourke.
Several issuers contacted for this story, including Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) and Discover (DFS, Fortune 500), said they have continued to look
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Are you a believer? Are you Notes from a believer in mind over matter? the Universe. Think it, Feel it, and it will be. Put it another If you have not already watched way, it’s The it or read the book, go today and Power of Positive Thinking and how enjoy the power of The Secret written it can be applied to attracting more by Rhonda Byrne. Not really a movie money, better health, and relationships; or documentary, The Secret is more in short, happiness. of a video seminar, a presentation featuring a series of authors, In the end, programs like this generally philosophers, doctors, quantum physicists, entrepreneurs, and “more money, find an audience that is spiritual practitioners expounding better health, and open to the message, and many will probably on the powers of The Secret relationships” find it to be a source (probably the most well-known of of inspiration. Others the presenters is Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul will approach it with a good deal of skepticism or dismiss it as another way and The Success Principles). of marketing happiness the masses. It simply won’t resonate with everyone, What is The Secret, exactly? “That but if it resonates with principle can be summed up in three you, you’re likely to simple words: thoughts become things,” enjoy it and get a proclaims writer Mike Dooley, author of lot out of it.
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STOP, DROP, AND ROLL INTO A FIREHOUSE By David Wolfe
They When
“wildfire”
are spreading like
so to speak.
we walked through the door the employees
looked
up
and
Firehouse”. Then
said
unison,
in
“Welcome
to
we saw their great selection of
hot and cold sandwiches.
After
we made our
order came the even more surprisingly delicious
–
part
some of the
Firehouse
locations, like the
one we visited, have a digital soda machine which has a variety of special mixes in soda drinks.
The
dining
room
tabletops.
had
The
tables
color
Dalmatian
with
scheme
was
a
red
and white theme and there was an assortment of authentic fire apparel scattered around.
We
were only seated for a few minutes when the warm
sandwiches
I had Combo steak, cheese. still
the
were
medium
delivered
Firehouse Steak
onions,
bell
peppers
The sandwich soft. It was served
a
table.
our and
Cheese
which was a good serving size of sirloin
and a bag of chips for was
to
great
extremely
price
tender
for
and
and
was
provolone
warmed
but
was
with a medium beverage
$6.29
lunch.
had
a
which
lot
The
of
I
thought
meat
was
flavor.
If
you want it with lettuce and tomato you’ll need to
specify
that
you
want
it
“fully
involved”.
My partner had N Ladder Sub
a
large
which
(1/2
ham,
was
pound)
monteray jack cheese which came to a
beverage
super
fresh. it
and
tender
bag
and
They are didn’t taste
of
juicy
chips. and
turkey,
Hook
$7.57
Their
meat
everything
and
with was
tasted
very generous with the meat and
like cheap cold-cuts either.
The
sandwiches seemed to have more meat than bread.
Our
daughter
REALLY
Firehouse Subs. She
liked
got little red fire hat which she was extremely about.
I was kid’s menu. There
excited the
very
pleased
when
I
saw
were a lot of choices to
choose from for just
$2.99
such as: turkey,
ham, roast beef, grilled cheese, or peanut butter.
We
ordered the ham sandwich and it had a few
pieces of ham on it with higher quality white bread.
It
2 Oreo
also came with
Overall Firehouse
cookies and a drink.
seems to have a quality unlike
most comparable sub shops.
They
were quick,
well staffed, clean, and offered a quality food for a great price. soon
I
think
have the sub.
We’ll be back I will and Ladder
next
Hook
time
to
Firehouse
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Ingredients:
Directions:
• 1
large sweet white onions
1. Preheat
• 1
lb lean ground sirloin
• 1
teaspoon olive oil
• 2
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2. Using
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the
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to
minutes per side for
the same time, grill the peppers for
minutes on each side.
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the burgers on toasted with
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red
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and
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SEX AND THE CITY 2 By Lisa Schwarzbaum, EW.com May 28, 2010 (EW.com) -- Mood swings similar to those experienced by menopausal Samantha are a common side effect of exposure to “Sex and the City 2.” Two and a half hours spent in the company of fortysomething Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte YorkGoldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), and fiftysomething Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) takes a toll: The experience of listening to the girls complain about their fairy-tale lives from the comfort of an allexpenses-paid luxury vacation in the Arabian desert may leave a viewer feeling by turns nostalgic, disoriented, and impatient. Don’t worry. This is a normal response to revisiting an essence-of-1990s-NYC experience and seeing it through 2010 eyes. And it’s a natural reaction given that, in turning the blinged-out foursome into garish caricatures of their already outlandish selves, it seems the producers are just not that into us. Once upon a time, Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha represented an extravagant (white) fantasy of sophisticated city-that-never-sleeps sisterhood. They were Manolo’d ambassadors from a world of Manhattan glamour and cosmos who, underneath their finery, were recognizable as real types of women in an American urban world. Now? Well, the friends still look porelessly fine. And I’m delighted that, in an antidote to recession frugality, their wardrobe budget hasn’t taken a hit. But in “SATC2,” whether the topic is gay marriage discussed at the over-the-top wedding of Carrie’s Best Gay Friend (Willie Garson) to Charlotte’s own BGF (Mario Cantone), or gender roles in the complicated United Arab Emirate of Abu Dhabi explored on a camel, the conversation has been reduced to a string of quips. ‘’It’s Bedouin, Bath & Beyond!’’ Carrie chirps about amenities in a luxurious desert oasis. ‘’Lawrence of my labia!’’ Samantha purrs -- ewww! -- about an attractive man observed driving across the dunes. Writer-director Michael Patrick King compulsively jams pun after groaner pun into the script, tipping the ladies’ lifestyles and life issues perilously into cartoon territory done better by Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley on BBC’s “Absolutely Fabulous.” Three of the four have uninteresting but reasonable problems: Charlotte is upset that motherhood is hard; Miranda is upset that she’s unappreciated at work; Samantha is upset that she can’t outrun menopause. The fourth takes the cupcake:
Carrie is upset because she’s got everything, including marriage to Big (Chris Noth), a new book and a humongous closet, and now she’s... what? Spoiled and bored, we can’t help but think. (‘’Is this because I’m a bitch wife who nags you?’’ Carrie wheedles when Big asks for some space; at the screening I attended, the audience answered aloud, Yes.) Yet with the exception of Miranda (who, honestly, is far too mature and engaged in the world to still hang with these me-me-me gals), not one of the fashion fiends lifts her head out of her luggage to get a clue. While Miranda reads up on Abu Dhabi and learns to speak basic courtesies in Arabic, Charlotte scrambles like an American maniac in search of clear cell-phone reception. Samantha is still at it with the horny shtick: She insults her hosts as she rails against not being allowed to dress as trampy as she wants. Carrie still can’t get over the awful fact that, while she gave Big an expensive vintage wristwatch for their second anniversary, he gave her a high-end flat-screen TV installed in their bedroom so they could watch old black-and-white movies together. Together. As if the gesture were an insult rather than an offer to share something, anything, other than nights out on the town. It’s of passing interest to note that all the male characters who make return visits -- including John Corbett as Carrie’s ex, David Eigenberg as Miranda’s husband, Evan Handler as Charlotte’s husband, and Jason Lewis as Samantha’s actor boy-toy -- are so nice and mild and understanding and accommodating that they fade into invisibility. “SATC2” doesn’t have time to follow any relationships other than those among Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, Miranda, and their suitcases full of costumer Patricia Field’s caftan-themed creations. As Carrie might type on her laptop while giving one of her girly little shrugs, When did “Sex and the City” become so long and mean so little? C-
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RETAILERS POSTED 9TH STRAIGHT MONTH OF GAINS
By Blake Ellis Staff Reporter - June 3, 2010
cnn.
com
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Consumers
pulled
posted
out their wallets and hit their favorite discount
increase,
and department stores in
average
May,
helping retailers
post their ninth straight month of increasing sales.
According
Thomson Reuters, 28 leading chains such as Macy’s (M, Fortune 500), Target (TGT, Fortune 500), Costco (COST, Fortune 500) and J.C. Penney (JCP, Fortune 500), May sales rose 2.5%, coming in slightly below the firm’s initial estimate for an increase of 2.6%. to
sales
tracker
which looks at monthly same-store sales for
Same-store
performance,
sales,
least a year.
May’s 2.5% small
bump
improvement
a
measure
key
gauge
sales
at
of
a
stores
retailer’s open
increase was a big jump from
0.5%, and from the 4.8% of
it
was
a
at
April’s
significant
sales decline retailers
posted for the same month a year ago.
Of the 28 stores, 63% beat analysts’ expectations, while 37% missed. Among
the best performers last month, discounters
the
rising
an
5.3%.
of
Costco led with a 9% rise in May sales, but that was slightly below analysts’ forecast increase of 9.7%. The
largest
the way increase for
an
company said that higher gasoline prices and
stronger foreign currencies pressured sales.
Sales
at discounter
Target
rose
slightly better than expected.
In
the department store arena,
same-store sales gain of
1.4%.
1.3%
last month,
Macy’s
logged a
However, some retailers struggled to boost their sales. The Buckle’s (BKE) sales fell, 5.4%, a big miss from the 0.6% rise expected by analysts, and sales at Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) declined 3%. Other clothing retailers such as The Limited, fared better, posting a sales jump of 5%, compared to a forecasts fror a
2.1%
increase.
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As
you hopefully know by now, we
have
special
events
all of our residents.
Minizine
monthly
every
month
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for
of our shows
You
are not required to
RSVP,
it is
merely a courtesy so that we know
how much food, drinks, etc to provide.
Please
come out either way!
the names and dates of these exciting events.
In
Additionally, your RSVP and attendance
an effort to help us plan properly,
at
events
will
qualify
you
fun prizes such as tickets to
to
Georgia
RSVP to W3 Lifestyle at rsvp@ Shakespeare performances, Braves w3lifestyle.com. Be sure to include: and much more. please
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win
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games
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DIVE IN MOVIE NIGHT
We
Dive In Move Night at on Saturday, May 29th.
hosted
the pool
Thank you to out. We had
everyone who came
a great time!
There was lots of food, drinks, laughs, and fun. We served hamburgers, hotdogs, and many other snacks along with some refreshing drinks for both the kids and adults.
It
was such a fun way to enjoy a movie while also enjoying the warmer weather and the refreshing pool.
If
you missed it, please mark your
calendar to join us at this month’s event,
Jazz Under The Stars. It will be Friday, June 18th at the community pool. Our monthly events
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are a great way to get to know
your neighbors and make new friends.
Also,
it is a great time to provide
feedback to your office staff so that we may better serve you.
As
always, our number one goal is
Cascades Again,
make sure you love calling on the
River
your home!
thank you to everyone who joined us at the
Dive In Movie Night,
and we
look forward to seeing you at
Under The Stars. a great time!
It
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RESTAURANTS TAKE CALORIES to the Extreme By Sabriya Rice, cnn..com, May 25, 2010 An estimated 67 percent of U.S. adults over age 20 are overweight or obese - and a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest says some popular restaurant chains are contributing to the problem. The report awards the Extreme Eating 2010 Award to a total of nine dishes from seven companies. “These chains don’t promote moderation. They practice caloric extremism, and they’re helping make modern-day Americans become the most obese people ever to walk the Earth,” stated CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson in a press release. The report highlights for example that a Five Guys bacon cheeseburger with a large order of fries adds up to 2,380 calories, and that P.F. Chang’s double pan-fried noodle combo, which includes beef, pork and chicken, comes to about 1,820 calories. One meal can put a person close to – or well over – the 2000 -2500 calories per day the USDA recommends for the average person to maintain a healthy weight. A spokesperson from P.F. Chang’s says the nutritional information for the double pan-fried noodles combo is inaccurate. The company notes that according to the website, the dish contains only 455 calories per serving, and the serving size is for four people. However the CSPI says, that wording can often be misleading. “One of the oldest tricks in the book is to say that a given plate of food serves X number of people,” says the CSPI. “While people do often share at Chinese
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restaurants it’s hard to imagine four people sharing this and nothing else!” C N N received responses from two of the other restaurant chains mentioned in the report. California Pizza Kitchen – which was cited for two dishes, including a pesto cream penne pasta that amounted to 1,350 calories before any meat was added – says it offers a wide variety of menu choices and that, most often, its pizzas are shared. “We welcome our guests to modify any of our menu items to meet their dietary needs,” a company spokesman says. Similarly, Outback Steakhouse said its chefs can customize meals, desserts and drinks to satisfy customers’ specific preferences and dietary needs. Outback says the company was among the first to offer an online nutritional tool that “ provides [consumers] with all of the information needed to make an informed decision when placing an order.” In fact, many of the companies in the report currently list their nutritional information right on their websites: Bob Evans; California Pizza Kitchen; Five Guys; P.F. Chang’s; Outback Steakhouse; Chevys. Nutritionists say it is a good rule of thumb to check out nutrition information before heading to a restaurant. Also, the USDA and the American Heart Association offer other useful tips for ways you can eat healthfully when dining out on their websites.
HOW EXERCISE WORKS at the Cellular Level By Alice Park, time..com, May 26, 2010 We all know that exercise is good for us, but do we know why? How do those hours of sweating it out on a treadmill or pushing yourself in a weight training regimen actually help your cells and tissues to get healthier? Two papers by separate groups may provide some intriguing answers. One team, led by researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, isolated several dozen metabolic byproducts of exercise in the blood and studied how these compounds change before and after exercise, while across the country, a team at the University of California, San Francisco, studied the effect of exercise on how a cell ages. Both groups of researchers shed new light on how the body responds to exercise, and their findings suggest news ways of enhancing the beneficial effects of physical activity on the body. In the Massachusetts paper, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the scientists isolated 200 metabolic byproducts in the blood of 300 subjects who agreed to run for 10 min. on a treadmill in the lab. Blood samples were taken before exercise, immediately after the activity, and then one hour later. Of the 200 agents, 20 showed significant changes before and after exercise; most of these were well known byproducts of physical activity, such as increases in lactate and variations in the breakdown of fats, sugars and various amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, in the muscles. One pathway that had not been identified before emerged from this analysis however — the production of a vitamin that promotes insulin release. It was also clear that more fit individuals were able to burn fat more effectively during exercise, since they released more of the byproducts of fat metabolism than less fit subjects. Such information, say the authors, could lead to a better understanding of how to test people for fitness and maximize the beneficial effects of exercise for them — for example, by potentially giving them compounds that can make up for deficiencies in their body’s ability to breakdown fats, sugars or proteins for energy. In the second study from UCSF, which appeared in PLoS One, the researchers focused on a specific part of cells known to dictate aging. Telomeres are the portions of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that help to stabilize the genetic material in the cell as the cell divides and its genes are replicated over and over again. With each cell division, however, telomeres tend to shorten, and when the tips are worn down enough, that’s a signal for the cell to die.
A growing body of research, some by the same UCSF team, suggests that stress can accelerate the shortening of telomeres, and therefore of cell life. So the research team (which included Elizabeth Blackburn, the scientist who co-discovered the enzyme responsible for whittling down telomeres and earned the Nobel Prize for her work) decided to test whether exercise could counteract that decline and potentially maintain telomere length and cell vitality. Working with samples of immune cells from the blood obtained from 62 post menopausal women, the researchers analyzed the length of telomeres on these cells during a three day period. The volunteers, many of whom were caring for loved ones suffering from dementia, recorded the number of minutes of vigorous physical activity they completed at the end of each day. After compiling the data, the scientists found that despite similar levels of stress in their lives, those getting the recommended 75 minutes of weekly physical activity that the government advises did not experience a shortening of their telomeres, while the women exercising less than this amount did. It’s an intriguing window into how lifestyle changes such as exercise can affect cellular aging, and perhaps even combat the negative effects of stress on our cells. But, caution the authors, the study still needs to be replicated before they can comfortably confirm that physical activity can inhibit aging. Taken together, the two studies hint at how complex — and systemic — the effects of exercise can be on the body. Creating such cell-level windows into how our bodies react to physical exercise may help us to both appreciate the significance of daily activity as well as figure out better ways to make the most of those hours at the gym.
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