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New Year’s Resolutions?
January 5th, 2010
Do you make a resolution every year? Here are some stats that are quite interesting.
40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year.
Among the top new years resolutions are resolutions about weight loss, exercise, and stopping to smoke. Also popular are resolutions dealing with better money management / debt reduction.
The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on:
– past the first week: 75%
– past 2 weeks: 71%
– after one month: 64%
– after 6 months: 46%
While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don’t explicitly make resolutions.
Do you have a resolution that worked? Share it with us today!
Lions, tigers and TURKEYS! Oh my!
November 15th, 2009
Did you know that Minnesota is the top turkey-producing state in America? There are 6 states responsible for producing Thanksgiving turkeys – Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Missouri and Indiana.
Did you know 88% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving – at 15 pounds for an average per turkey – thats roughly 700 millions pounds consumed on just one day!
Did you know that wild turkeys can run 20 miles per hour? Makes for a fun chase!
Did you know it takes 75-80 pounds of feed to raise a 30 pound tom turkey?
Did you know that commercially raised turkeys cannot fly?
Did you know that turkey has more protein than chicken or beef and is low in fat?
For more interesting and fun turkey facts…read more.
Ten best holiday gifts
October 26th, 2009
Would you believe that chocolate is the number 1 gift according to Biz Journals…
Chocolate is in its own food-gift category. Readers said nice things about cookies, wine, and coffee, but they raved about chocolate.
“I received a hard-hat full of tool-shaped chocolate. Biting off the head of a hammer is just like biting the ears off a chocolate rabbit!!!”
Body Parts Unveiled
September 20th, 2009
Did you know:
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Eyes are the most active muscles in the whole body.
There are about 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The life span of a tastebud is 10 days.
Humans have almost 10,000 taste buds.
The colder the room you sleep in, the more likely that you will have a bad dream.
