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I find that people who use Diigo have no other praise for it except for the highlighting and annotation. It seems these users don’t have the brainpower to remember what they read, and must highlight a small internet paragraph that usually says very little.

new peanut butter called SMART BALANCE OMEGA NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER. I'm all about omega-3s, so it got my attention. I'm guessing the Smart Balance Margarine Company makes it. There's .5 gram (500 milligrams) of omega-3s per tablespoon. This is coming from the added ingredient, flax oil.

The ingredients are simple:
Peanuts
Natural oil blend (flaxseed and palm fruit oils)
Salt
Molasses

The Nutritional analysis is (per 2 tablespoons):
200 calories, 17 g fat, 2.5 g saturated fat, 0 g trans fat, 12 g monounsaturated fat, 2 g polyunsaturated fat, 6 g carbohydrate (1 g sugar), 110 mg sodium, 2 g fiber, 7 g protein
1000 milligrams omega-3s
1300 milligrams omega-6s

What's good about it?
They don't use any refined sugar! The sweetener used is molasses and they don't use much as evidenced by the 1 gram of sugar per 2 tablespoon serving. And there is a much better ratio of omega-6s to omega-3s than your average peanut butter (peanuts have a pretty high amount of omega-6s). And because they don't add any partially hydrogenated oils, there isn't any trans fat to be found. The saturated fat, however, compares to the amount in a reduced fat peanut butter (store brand) that I sometimes buy.

How does it taste?
It tastes great to me. More like natural peanut butter, probably because there isn't a lot of sweetener added to it. Nutritionally speaking I would probably be better off stirring some ground flaxseed into my peanut butter, that way I'm getting the plant omega-3s in a balance with other helpful components in flaxseed (plant estrogen and fiber). That might not go over as well with the general population though.

Green and black teas contain phytochemicals (flavonols and catechins) thought to have health benefits. Most of the studies suggesting cancer-protective effects of tea have been carried out with green tea, but black tea may also have some protective qualities just possibly less than
green tea.

Antioxidants make up a third of the weight of dried tea leaves. And one of these antioxidants is called EGCG, the main catechin phytochemical in tea, which was shown to slow the build up of artery clogging plaque in mice in a recent study.

TEA TIP
When it comes to the phytochemicals in tea, freshly brewed is best! Apparently bottled teas have less of these phytochemicals than freshly brewed tea.

All that being said, I've been on the lookout for some fun and flavorful iced teas and I've found two I want to tell you about.

* Brand: Republic of Tea
Type: Man Kind Tea (blueberry green tea)
Description: This is green tea infused with blueberry. It comes in a 2.65-ounce tin and here's the best part - A donation of $.75 per can is donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

* Brand: Peet's Tea
Type: Mango Iced Tea
Description: Black tea infused with a mango flavor.
It comes in a 3.2-ounce box.

you could get a LiveJournal account and then download Semagic, a desktop update client. You have full access and control of your LiveJournal account from this utility, including all past entries. Just set all of your entries to the 'Private' setting so no one else can see them, and you're set.

Have you looked at City Desk? It's a billed as a user friendly "desktop content management system."

One of the things I need to be careful about is diet. When I am having clusters - which seems to be around seasonal changes - I need to be careful about my diet. Aged cheeses, fresh bread, processed meats, caffeine, red wine, etc. These foods contain tyramine and are known to act as triggers in people who are susceptible to cluster headaches.

These headaches are debilitating and more distressing than common or classic migraine headaches.