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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
7 Unhealthiest Pasta Dishes in America
I'm so confused," my friend Tania said recently.To see a world in a grain of sand "Ten years ago I ate pasta all the time, because it was low-fat. Then five years ago I stopped eating pasta altogether, because it's high carb. who is falling in love with my smileNow they're saying pasta is actually good for me—again! What's the deal? Penne for your thoughts!"I sympathized with her confusion. After all, the world is filled with diet "gurus" who want to seize on this study or that one and make absurd rules about what you should "never" eat oAnd forever has no endr "always" eat. And no food has been so praised and demonized as pasta. (Remember "carbo-loading"?) act is, pasta delivers a nice dose of quick energy for relatively few calories, and packs a bit of vitamins, minerals and fiber as well—especially if you opt for Stray birds of summer come to my windowwhole-wheat varieties. (Barilla has introduced a line of whole-wheat pastas that taste just like regular pasta—check them out.) But the humble stalk of spaghetti is neither a blessing nor a curse—it's a tool. Indeed, the best way to think of pasta is as a delivery system for other foods, be they good (think antioxidant-packed marinara sauce) or evil (fat-loaded carbonara). And that means a pasta-heavy diet could lead to a healthier you—or just a heavier you.
Our motto at Eat This, Not That! is that you can eat what you want and still lose weight—without dieting—by making smart food swaps no matter where you are. And that can be said about pasta dishes, as well—you just need to be aware of which platters fall within the realm of nutritional normalcy, and which ones are egregious mounds of calories and carbs. Below, see the seven worst pasta dishes in America—and what you should eat instead!The flavor and fat both come from the garlic-infused cream sauce--which gives this dish a full day's worth of saturated fat and sodium! Fact is, any time you order a meat that comes with white sauce, you can cut hundreds of calories by asking to have it prepared with nutrient-rich marinara instead. Ultimately, sauce is what’ll make or break your pasta dish. Take the Venetian Apricot Chicken, for example. The apricot-citrus sauce covering the chicken is broth-based, which makes it more akin to soup than the oily concoctions you’re used to.
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Releasing Russell means Raiders righting a big wrong
First, they have a solid draft. Now, they cut JaMarcus Russell. What's next? A defeat of San Diego? A winning season? A head coach who sticks around for three seasons?
All I know is that the Raiders are beginning to act like a responsible football franchise determined to make itself better -- and no, that is not a misprint. They're making all the right moves, and hallelujah. It's about time.
Analysis
Pete PriscoRussell's release cements the former No. 1 pick as the biggest draft bust, for now. Read more
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Oakland releases the former No. 1 pick, a move that saves the Raiders $6.45 million. Will the Raiders do something productive with that sum? Read more
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SI.com: Releasing Russell right move
The release of Russell is the clearest signal yet that Oakland is serious about junking another 5-11 finish and returning to the major leagues. The club sank $61 million in the guy -- including $31.5 million in guaranteed money -- and was understandably reluctant to walk away from its investment.
But it did it, and it did it for the right reasons: Because Russell flat-out stunk and was holding the team back.But you don't need me to tell you that. If you watched Russell for one nanosecond last season, you could've drawn the same conclusion. He was so bad that he couldn't complete half of his passes, had nearly four times as many interceptions (11) as touchdown passes (3) and was benched in midseason by a courageous Tom Cable.
"I think it's pretty clear what he has to do," Cable said then. "He has to learn how to take care of business on a daily basis consistently and prepare himself and take care of his development as a quarterback."
He never did. So the Raiders got tired of waiting and cut the guy. Well, hear, hear. They're a better team for it.
Bad enough that Russell established himself as a remarkably inaccurate passer, with more overpasses and underpasses than the Nimitz Freeway; what's worse is that he didn't seem to care, with myriad reports circulating about his weight problems, his laziness and his reluctance to improve himself.
I don't doubt that he has talent, but it takes more than talent to make it in the bigs, and Ryan Leaf, come on down. Until Russell came along, Leaf was the poster boy for first-round flops. Like Russell he was talented. Like Russell, he was designated "the quarterback of the future." Like Russell, he was a gazillion-dollar investment. But like Russell, he was undisciplined and scattered.
Which meant he was
The difference is that the Chargers didn't make Leaf the first pick in the draft nor the first quarterback in the draft. Russell was both, and it took three years for the Raiders -- just as it did San Diego with Leaf -- to realize they'd been duped.
He couldn't win. He wouldn't learn. He couldn't complete a freakin' pass. And he couldn't or wouldn't stay in shape. Connect the dots, people -- it's easy to see where that gets you.
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Nevertheless, it takes guts to admit a $61 million mistake after only three years. But the Raiders swallowed their pride and poise and did just that. They understood what everyone outside the 510 area code did, and that's that Russell can't play at this level -- or, at least, not the way he was playing with Oakland.
To say he struggled is an understatement. The guy was the Venus De Milo of quarterbacks and never showed improvement. In fact, he got worse with time, floundering after the Raiders surrounded him with experienced quarterback tutors like Ted Tollner and Paul Hackett.
Bottom line: He was a lost cause. And the Raiders finally acknowledged it.
In reality, they acknowledged it when they traded last month for quarterback Jason Campbell, making him the fifth quarterback on their roster. Somebody had to go, and Russell was the logical choice.
Only it would take owner Al Davis admitting he was wrong when he made Russell the first pick of the 2007 draft, and that couldn't have been easy -- especially after he made Russell a mega-millionaire. Yet he did it, and bravo for him.
If you believe in addition-by-subtraction you believe in what the Raiders just did. Russell wasn't going to make them better, and he could have made them worse. Now, he no longer is a temptation, a distraction or a subject for discussion, derision or debate on a franchise that is 29-83 over the last seven years.
He's simply gone, and good riddance.
Yeah, I know he can throw the ball a mile, but I don't care. It doesn't matter when you can't tell which jersey you're throwing to. I don't care that his skill set had him rated at the top of his quarterback class, either. I don't even care that the Raiders paid him a fortune the size of Liechtenstein's gross national product. Russell never, ever, ever was going to make it as an NFL quarterback.
The Raiders know it now, and they should have known it a year ago when Cable went rogue and benched Russell in favor of Bruce Gradkowski and Charlie Frye. In four starts, Gradkowski threw twice as many touchdown passes as Russell did in nine and produced as many victories (two). Basically, he was a better quarterback. So was Frye. And the Raiders were better with them.
Now they're better off without Russell, and let's hear it for the Oakland Raiders. It took them three years to wake up to the nightmare that was Russell, and do what they absolutely, positively had to do.
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All I know is that the Raiders are beginning to act like a responsible football franchise determined to make itself better -- and no, that is not a misprint. They're making all the right moves, and hallelujah. It's about time.
Analysis
Pete PriscoRussell's release cements the former No. 1 pick as the biggest draft bust, for now. Read more
Ray Ratto
Oakland releases the former No. 1 pick, a move that saves the Raiders $6.45 million. Will the Raiders do something productive with that sum? Read more
Links
Raiders cut ties with Russell
SI.com: Releasing Russell right move
The release of Russell is the clearest signal yet that Oakland is serious about junking another 5-11 finish and returning to the major leagues. The club sank $61 million in the guy -- including $31.5 million in guaranteed money -- and was understandably reluctant to walk away from its investment.
But it did it, and it did it for the right reasons: Because Russell flat-out stunk and was holding the team back.But you don't need me to tell you that. If you watched Russell for one nanosecond last season, you could've drawn the same conclusion. He was so bad that he couldn't complete half of his passes, had nearly four times as many interceptions (11) as touchdown passes (3) and was benched in midseason by a courageous Tom Cable.
"I think it's pretty clear what he has to do," Cable said then. "He has to learn how to take care of business on a daily basis consistently and prepare himself and take care of his development as a quarterback."
He never did. So the Raiders got tired of waiting and cut the guy. Well, hear, hear. They're a better team for it.
Bad enough that Russell established himself as a remarkably inaccurate passer, with more overpasses and underpasses than the Nimitz Freeway; what's worse is that he didn't seem to care, with myriad reports circulating about his weight problems, his laziness and his reluctance to improve himself.
I don't doubt that he has talent, but it takes more than talent to make it in the bigs, and Ryan Leaf, come on down. Until Russell came along, Leaf was the poster boy for first-round flops. Like Russell he was talented. Like Russell, he was designated "the quarterback of the future." Like Russell, he was a gazillion-dollar investment. But like Russell, he was undisciplined and scattered.
Which meant he was
The difference is that the Chargers didn't make Leaf the first pick in the draft nor the first quarterback in the draft. Russell was both, and it took three years for the Raiders -- just as it did San Diego with Leaf -- to realize they'd been duped.
He couldn't win. He wouldn't learn. He couldn't complete a freakin' pass. And he couldn't or wouldn't stay in shape. Connect the dots, people -- it's easy to see where that gets you.
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Nevertheless, it takes guts to admit a $61 million mistake after only three years. But the Raiders swallowed their pride and poise and did just that. They understood what everyone outside the 510 area code did, and that's that Russell can't play at this level -- or, at least, not the way he was playing with Oakland.
To say he struggled is an understatement. The guy was the Venus De Milo of quarterbacks and never showed improvement. In fact, he got worse with time, floundering after the Raiders surrounded him with experienced quarterback tutors like Ted Tollner and Paul Hackett.
Bottom line: He was a lost cause. And the Raiders finally acknowledged it.
In reality, they acknowledged it when they traded last month for quarterback Jason Campbell, making him the fifth quarterback on their roster. Somebody had to go, and Russell was the logical choice.
Only it would take owner Al Davis admitting he was wrong when he made Russell the first pick of the 2007 draft, and that couldn't have been easy -- especially after he made Russell a mega-millionaire. Yet he did it, and bravo for him.
If you believe in addition-by-subtraction you believe in what the Raiders just did. Russell wasn't going to make them better, and he could have made them worse. Now, he no longer is a temptation, a distraction or a subject for discussion, derision or debate on a franchise that is 29-83 over the last seven years.
He's simply gone, and good riddance.
Yeah, I know he can throw the ball a mile, but I don't care. It doesn't matter when you can't tell which jersey you're throwing to. I don't care that his skill set had him rated at the top of his quarterback class, either. I don't even care that the Raiders paid him a fortune the size of Liechtenstein's gross national product. Russell never, ever, ever was going to make it as an NFL quarterback.
The Raiders know it now, and they should have known it a year ago when Cable went rogue and benched Russell in favor of Bruce Gradkowski and Charlie Frye. In four starts, Gradkowski threw twice as many touchdown passes as Russell did in nine and produced as many victories (two). Basically, he was a better quarterback. So was Frye. And the Raiders were better with them.
Now they're better off without Russell, and let's hear it for the Oakland Raiders. It took them three years to wake up to the nightmare that was Russell, and do what they absolutely, positively had to do.
But they did it. It is better
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Bombing suspect had getaway car, officials say
The man suspected in last Saturday's attempted bombing of Times Square drove in the heart of Manhattan one day earlier and left a getaway car near his target, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Faisal Shahzad was apprehended by authorities two days after an SUV rigged with explosives failed to detonate in the crowded Manhattan tourist district. He remains in custody on terrorism and weapons charges, and he is continuing to cooperate extensively with investigators, a senior administration official said Thursday. They now believe that the material he is giving them is largely credible, the official added.
Insight into Shahzad's alleged planning of the attack came as House Minority Leader John A. Boehner delivered a tough critique of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism.
"We have been lucky, but luck is not an effective strategy for fighting terrorism," Boehner said at his weekly press briefing, and he denounced the administration's "bland reassurances."
"Through training, equipping and preparing, you make your own luck," responded Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the House intelligence committee. "We can't sit back and let every situation play out and hope that we're lucky. But we can, as we're doing, create an environment where we control the situation and set ourselves up for success." The committee met Thursday behind closed doors to hear more about the attempted bombing.
Shahzad dropped off a getaway car last Friday in New York, a government official said, but a day later, he locked the keys to it, and to his Connecticut apartment, in an SUV that he drove into Times Square. That forced Shahzad to take the train back to his Bridgeport, Conn., apartment. The Associated Press first reported about the second car.
Officials have said the gray 1993 Nissan Pathfinder, left abandoned in Times Square and loaded with firecrackers, gasoline and propane, could have created a huge fireball and killed nearby tourists and Broadway theatergoers if it had gone off successfully.
Kevin Barry, a retired member of the New York Police Department's bomb squad, told the Associated Press that the design of the bomb -- which included an improvised fireworks-and-powder detonator -- showed Shahzad had sufficient training to understand the basics of rigging an explosive device. But the bomb also included fertilizer that was incapable of exploding.
The alleged plot "was at least the fourth major terrorist incident on U.S. soil in the last eight months," Boehner said -- referring to the failed plot to attack New York's subways, the Fort Hood shootings and the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a jet over Detroit.
"Each of these individuals represent new strands of terrorism," Boehner said. "They received varying degrees of support, but all of them are tied to international terrorist organizations and their radical extremism platforms. We are seeing the dangerous results of motivated individuals being able to improve their capability to kill innocent civilians. Yet the Obama administration has spoon-fed the American people with bland reassurances, saying this was a 'one-off' and a 'lone wolf.' This is the rhetoric of an administration that continues to operate without a real, comprehensive plan to confront and defeat the terrorist threat."
Separately, Rep. Peter King, the top Republican on the House homeland security committee, called on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to order an investigation of leaks to the media about the Times Square case.
King, who is also a member of the House intelligence committee, wrote in a letter to Holder on Thursday that "leaks from the administration provided details of the ongoing investigation, which, after the attack, turned out to be accurate." He described such disclosures as "a dangerous pattern that could undermine the entire investigation, risk lives of law enforcement officers, and jeopardize the ability to achieve convictions."december
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Faisal Shahzad was apprehended by authorities two days after an SUV rigged with explosives failed to detonate in the crowded Manhattan tourist district. He remains in custody on terrorism and weapons charges, and he is continuing to cooperate extensively with investigators, a senior administration official said Thursday. They now believe that the material he is giving them is largely credible, the official added.
Insight into Shahzad's alleged planning of the attack came as House Minority Leader John A. Boehner delivered a tough critique of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism.
"We have been lucky, but luck is not an effective strategy for fighting terrorism," Boehner said at his weekly press briefing, and he denounced the administration's "bland reassurances."
"Through training, equipping and preparing, you make your own luck," responded Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the House intelligence committee. "We can't sit back and let every situation play out and hope that we're lucky. But we can, as we're doing, create an environment where we control the situation and set ourselves up for success." The committee met Thursday behind closed doors to hear more about the attempted bombing.
Shahzad dropped off a getaway car last Friday in New York, a government official said, but a day later, he locked the keys to it, and to his Connecticut apartment, in an SUV that he drove into Times Square. That forced Shahzad to take the train back to his Bridgeport, Conn., apartment. The Associated Press first reported about the second car.
Officials have said the gray 1993 Nissan Pathfinder, left abandoned in Times Square and loaded with firecrackers, gasoline and propane, could have created a huge fireball and killed nearby tourists and Broadway theatergoers if it had gone off successfully.
Kevin Barry, a retired member of the New York Police Department's bomb squad, told the Associated Press that the design of the bomb -- which included an improvised fireworks-and-powder detonator -- showed Shahzad had sufficient training to understand the basics of rigging an explosive device. But the bomb also included fertilizer that was incapable of exploding.
The alleged plot "was at least the fourth major terrorist incident on U.S. soil in the last eight months," Boehner said -- referring to the failed plot to attack New York's subways, the Fort Hood shootings and the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a jet over Detroit.
"Each of these individuals represent new strands of terrorism," Boehner said. "They received varying degrees of support, but all of them are tied to international terrorist organizations and their radical extremism platforms. We are seeing the dangerous results of motivated individuals being able to improve their capability to kill innocent civilians. Yet the Obama administration has spoon-fed the American people with bland reassurances, saying this was a 'one-off' and a 'lone wolf.' This is the rhetoric of an administration that continues to operate without a real, comprehensive plan to confront and defeat the terrorist threat."
Separately, Rep. Peter King, the top Republican on the House homeland security committee, called on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to order an investigation of leaks to the media about the Times Square case.
King, who is also a member of the House intelligence committee, wrote in a letter to Holder on Thursday that "leaks from the administration provided details of the ongoing investigation, which, after the attack, turned out to be accurate." He described such disclosures as "a dangerous pattern that could undermine the entire investigation, risk lives of law enforcement officers, and jeopardize the ability to achieve convictions."december
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