Submitted by Meg Wilson on August 13, 2008 - 09:08.
The news today is that hip hop star Kayne West is opening 10 Fatburger franchises in Chicago. He's set to become a fast food tycoon soon.
The expanding Fatburger franchise already has over 80 locations, mostly in Southern California (with twelve just in Las Vegas).
Their Fatburger has 520 calories and 880 units of sodium and provides you with 35% of your daily recommended amount of iron. Their Veggieburger in contrast, has about 430 calories, a higher sodium content at 1180, and provides 70% of your daily iron needs. Their veggie burgers are made from a soy patty and served on a whole wheat bun.
Veggie burgers have become quite popular these days, especially with females, but they usually taste so much better when they're prepared at home.
If there are any nutritionists reading this, we'd love to know the approximate nutritional details of this lentil burger recipe that is very delicious and easy to make at home. See recipe in video below;
Submitted by Meg Wilson on August 13, 2008 - 10:02.
Dr. Oliver discusses Smart-Lipo on his Plastic Surgery 101 blog today. He's clearly not a fan of the procedure. He says;
The general "off the record" feelings of most experienced plastic surgeons experimenting with this is that these types of devices are safe but offer no clear advantage. Repeatedly it's described more as a successful marketing phenomena rather than a real improvement. It's still not established that delivering thermal energy below the skin affects "tightening" whatsoever, which is the whole gimmick of the laser. If it does, it doesn't appear to do it without still having to do most of the heavy lifting with traditional lipo.
Submitted by Meg Wilson on August 13, 2008 - 10:21.
Dr. Armani says eyebrow implants are increasingly popular. When he started doing hair transplants 9 years ago he was only doing about one brow transplant a month but now he's averaging about four or five. He thinks its because thicker eyebrows are more popular in Hollywood right now.
To put hair on your eyebrows, Dr. Armani uses hair from behind your ears (about 50 to 400 follicles). It's illegal to use artificial fibers to implant so if you don't have hair on your back, it's going to come from your scalp. It takes up to three hours for the procedure and costs between $5,000 to $10,000.
You'll need to trim your eyebrows occasionally as they will now be growing at the speed of your scalp hair but otherwise the work is good for ten years on average.
The beautiful eyebrow photo above is via Superchou.
Submitted by Meg Wilson on August 13, 2008 - 11:54.
Latin tattoos are in high demand these days. But is it a good idea to depend on a Latin/English dictionary online to get the right translation? You might end up walking around with complete junk and nonsense on your arm.
The Latin Translator has been around for nine years and they've noticed the huge spike in demand for Latin tattoos lately, so they've opened a special translation service just for helping you with your Latin tattoo ideas. For a fee of $30.00 and with a 24 hour turnaround they provide accurate translations into Latin of up to 25 words of English, alternatives to assist problems of spacing out words, advice on authentic forms of Roman lettering, advice on pit-falls for tattoo artists unfamiliar with Latin and an mp3 sound file of the translations.
They've been doing web Latin translations since 2000, with 1000+ customers in the last year (they say you can verify this from their Paypal pages). They claim a combined experience of more than 80 years of studying, teaching and translating Latin.
Might be worth checking them out if you are considering forever embedding something Latin on your body.