A fan recently sent Ke$ha a tooth and that gave her an idea:  She wants to make an entire necklace out of her fans’ teeth!

She recently posted this on Twitter “I’ve received 1 tooth from a fan. I made it into a necklace. But now I really wanna make a fan tooth necklace to wear to an awards show.  So.  What I’m getting at is please send me your teeth.  I’m dead serious.  I need your teeth.”

So there you have it.  You can send your teeth (or instruct the tooth fairy to forward them after leaving a few dollars under your pillow) to Ke$ha at:

Ke$ha

P.O. Box 120479

Nashville, TN 37212

This may come as a surprise, but you may not be as fit as you think you are.

Sure you can slug 12 ouncers, developing an aluminum 6-pack with the best of them, but them abs are worth no more than the 30 cents you’ll get for recycling.

Now, do you need a 6-pack?

Well it certainly helps put the groceries away. And you won’t look helpless exiting the grocer’s mart with paper bag tucked in arm. Spilling that celery and milk all over your new shell-tops!

But you and I both know you’re better than that!

And this is how, because you have self-respect

Maybe you’ve cursed a Yankee or two. But what southern gentleman hasn’t either?

Precisely! Just because you wear red sox doesn’t mean you’re awkward, it reveals class

And here’s another way to enhance that character trait, with some smart obstacle options coming up I New England this summer!

Here’s your list of places to take your ocean of testosterone out on mother nature and some plastic, wire and wood! Here’s your official “I’m a Golden God” itinerary.

“I’M A GOLDEN GOD” LIST

Ruckus Boston:
Marshfield, MASSACHUSETTS
June 4^th, 2011
http://www.runruckus.com

Warrior Dash
Amesbury, MASSACHUSETTS
June 25^th and 26^th, 2011
www.warriordash.com

Spartan Sprint:
Amesbury, MASSACHUSETTS
August 27^th and 28^th, 2011
http://www.spartanrace.com/

Spartan Beast (HARDER THAN SPRINT):
Killington, Vermont
August 6^th, 2011
http://www.spartanrace.com/

Spartan Death Race (HARDER THAN BEAST):
Green Mountains, Vermont
June 25^th into 26^th, 2011
http://www.spartanrace.com/

Tough Mountain Challenge:
Sunday River, MAINE
July 23^rd, 2011
http://www.toughmountain.com/

Rugged Maniac:
Southwick, MASSACHUSETTS
September 24^th, 2011
http://www.ruggedmaniac.com

Metro Dash:
TBD, MASSACHUSETTS
Pre-Registration is happening now
http://www.metrodash.com/

This kid has personally entered the Death Race and Metro Dash. I am also signed up for the Beast, Tough Mountain and Ruckus this 2011. Will re-enter the Metro Dash once available too.

These are certainly deadly events for armchair quarterbacks, challenging for newbie trainee’s/recreational athletes and excitingly fun for fit folks!

If you’ve got a Saturday or Sunday free of drinking this summer available, I highly recommend you get your butt out to one of these and challenge yourself.

You may be shocked at how “Golden God” you truly are Yankee hater

Until next time,

Live the dream kid!

Belley

BELLEY FITNESS | Marshfield, Massachusetts
www.rbfit.com

A few weeks back we put a recipe up for a pearl barley salad which if you tried, is very tasty. So like you I wanted to make something with out having to run out to the store a few days later. I reviewed what I had on hand and using some of the ingredients from the barley recipe came up with this pearl barley risotto. It has a southwestern flavor to it and if you grill some portabella mushroom, salmon or chicken to top off this dish the end results are quite pleasing! I was able to use the last of my dried pearl barley, black beans raw just had to be soaked and if you used the can and its been open, just make sure there still fresh (no sour odor). I always keep multiple fresh vegetables on hand cut in a variety of shapes, which means: once I have my cutting board out and I’m making dinner for that night I think about what I may want to have for the next day, therefore, I prep ahead to make my meal time easier!

So my solution (as we have discussed multiple times before) if you plan to eat well, healthier and feel good just consider: prep ahead to save time, use what’s in stock and keep it colorful. Try this recipe and let us know what your solution is for multiple ingredients?  Thank you for Cooking with Bernard          

Barley Risotto with Vegetables & Black Beans            serves 6

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil + 2 tablespoon

1 onion, diced

1 carrot, diced

Salt & Pepper to taste

2 cup Pearl Barley

1 cup white wine

6 cups vegetable stock

3 T. butter

6 ounces yellow bell pepper, diced

6 ounces red bell pepper, diced

6 ounces green bell pepper, diced

2 tomato, diced

1 cup cooked black beans

1 ½ t cumin

1 ½ t coriander powder

½ cup grated manchego cheese (or as needed)

½ cup green onion cut thin

Fresh Cilantro Leaves 

Procedure

1. Using a heavy sauce pot, heat the olive oil and sauté the onions and carrots until tender, approximately 2 to 3 minutes. Season with salt & pepper
2. Add the barley and cook stirring for another minute. Add the white wine and 1 cup vegetable stock and stir. Allow the barley to cook and soak up the stock, then repeat stirring frequently until the stock is used up, (15 minutes) Stir in the butter; the texture should be rich and creamy.
3. Once barley is cooked add the black beans,
4. Heat a sauté pan on med high temp; add the remaining vegetables’ in the 2 T of olive oil & sauté until tender. Season with the cumin and coriander then add to the barley and gently combine to mix well.

To serve, place on large platter or as individual servings and garnish with fresh cilantro leaves and fresh grated manchego cheese

Nakia called in this morning to talk about “The Voice” which airs Tuesday nights at 10PM on NBC.  To listen to the interview, click here.

Nakia was the guy who sang “Forget You” during the blind auditions which was pretty risky seeing that Cee Lo Green is one of the Judges on the show.  If you missed it, here is the video from Nakia’s blind audition:

Now you can see why Cee Lo liked him and Nakia is now a part of his team.  I really like this show and Nakia is defienetly one of my favorites.  Besides the fact he can sing and wants to help further my ambitious goal of modeling sweaters in a Wal-Mart circular, he also likes Popeye’s Chicken so how can I not be a fan?

To “Like” him on Facebook, go to: www.facebook.com/NakiaTheVoice

He called in today to talk about “The Voice” and you can listen to the interview by clicking here.

As if it wasn’t hard enough for people to quit smoking, now there’s this:  According to a team of psychologists at Oxford University, ‘No Smoking’ signs actually encourage smokers to light up!!

First of all, the signs are everywhere these days.  And second, seeing the signs triggers a subconscious reaction where smokers start thinking of cigarettes, and then wanting them.  Makes sense.  According to head researcher Brian Earp, “A lot of public health messages are framed in a negative way, say no to drugs, don’t drink and drive, no smoking.  What’s interesting is the ironic effect of the negative image.  No smoking signs are meant to discourage an activity, but what happens is you get a kick back so that the very item that’s supposed to be prohibited becomes more desirable.”

The study basically used image association:  People who had seen images of the no-smoking signs were drawn favorably to other images related to smoking.  According to Brian, “It’s a significant effect which we think would have real life implications.  When I say ‘Don’t think of a pink elephant, I’ve just put the thought of a pink elephant in your head.’”  He says follow-up research proves it even further, and it’ll be released soon.

These are two ingredients that are quite versatile and a recipe that I’m sure you will enjoy. About the two:

First, avocados are a super food, great at helping reduce your risk for cardiovascular disease. Research has shown that simply adding one avocado to an individual’s diet each day had a dramatic effect on blood lipids—without causing weight gain. The fat in an avocado is largely monounsaturated fat and contains a group of phytosterols that reduce cholesterol production and our risk for cancer. Like many fruits, avocados ripen best off the tree. Ripe avocados yield to gentle palm pressure, but firm, unripe avocados are what are usually found in the market. Select those that are unblemished and heavy for their size. To speed the ripening process, place several avocados in a paper bag and set aside at room temperature for 2 to 4 days. Ripe avocados can be stored in the refrigerator several days. Once avocado flesh is cut and exposed to the air it tends to discolor rapidly. To minimize this effect it is always advisable to add cubed or sliced avocado to a dish at the last moment.

Second, Quinoa, a staple of Andean culture, is an extremely nutrient-dense grain, which is rare. A good source of calcium and magnesium, it offers the majority of the essential amino acids, making it close to a complete protein. It is a good idea to rinse your quinoa first, which will remove some of the saponins (these have a laxative-like effect when consumed in substantial amounts). Quinoa is lighter than Couscous but can be used in any way suitable for rice — as part of a main dish, a side dish, in soups, in salads and even in puddings. It’s available packaged as a grain, ground into flour and in several forms of pasta. Quinoa, in the standard, raw form is gluten-free and not a grain it’s a seed and a relative of green leafy vegetables such as spinach. Quinoa can be found in most health-food stores and some supermarkets.

Source: from Epicurious.com and the Food Lovers companion

 Here is a great recipe which is colorful and makes for a great lunch the next day, when mixed with 2 cups of fresh baby spinach and 4oz of grilled chicken breast …but try it like it is!

Quinoa Salad

INGREDIENTS:                                                                                                             Serves 4

½ cup Quinoa

1 cup vegetable stock

½ cup red pepper diced

1 cup fresh spinach

¾ cup black beans, (can) rinsed and drained

½ cup white onion diced

½ cup cilantro leaves chopped

1 clove of garlic smashed and chopped

2 tbsp lemon juice

2 tbsp olive oil

PROCEDURE: 

1. Cook Quinoa according to package directions in vegetable broth.
2. In a bowl toss the next 6 ingredients, blend the oil and lemon juice to emulsify. Then add to the ingredients and toss to coat. When the Quinoa has absorbed the broth completely, fluff then add to the ingredient mix when warm.   

This should explain why your wife or girlfriend always wants to wake up early on Saturday to do brunch and take on the day when all you want to do is keep sleeping.

A study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts found that the average woman’s internal clock runs about six minutes faster than the average man’s.  A six-minute difference doesn’t seem like much, but the researchers found it makes a huge difference.

Women are much more likely to identify themselves as “morning people”, have an easier time getting out of bed and have more trouble staying up late when they’re tired.  It also leads to more insomnia in women.  The researchers say that if you are a woman who has trouble with insomnia or constant fatigue, one strategy is getting shades that make your bedroom go completely dark.

Your internal clock is tuned to need darkness earlier so by blocking out all of the light, it makes it easier for you to go to sleep.

As far as stupid baby names go, it’s dangerous territory when you start raggin’ on people’s precious little miracles.  So let’s do it.

Laura Wattenberg is the author of a baby name book called “The Baby Name Wizard”, and instead of running the usual studies to find out which baby names are most popular, she went the other direction and found out which names are disliked.

For boys, names with an “aiden” sound dominated the list (which I can’t agree with as my nephew is named Aiden and he is very well liked!)  The top four most disliked are Jayden, Brayden, Aiden, and Kaden . . . and Hayden came in sixth.  The rest of the top 10 are Hunter coming in fifth, then Bentley seventh, then Tristan, Michael, and Jackson.

For girls, the most disliked name was the ever-controversial Nevaeh.  That’s “heaven” backwards.  The rest of the list includes Madison, Mackenzie, McKenna, Addison, Gertrude, Kaitlyn, Makayla, Bertha, and Hope.

Wattenberg’s study also found some trends about disliked names.  Usually the names that came out of nowhere to become popular experience a backlash.  So do masculine names that suddenly become feminine, and weird spellings.  Some people go the other direction and just hate traditional names, which is how a name like Michael made the top 10.

According to the most recent Social Security Administration data, in 2009, the most popular boys’ baby names were Jacob, Ethan, and Michael . . . and for girls it was Isabella, Emma, and Olivia.

Rick Springfield was arrested for drunk driving Sunday night.  He was pulled over for a traffic violation when the cop smelled alcohol on his breath and gave him a breathalyzer test.  He blew a .10% .which is above California’s legal limit of .08 and was arrested and booked on suspicion of DUI.

But before you get all judgmental, imagine how much YOU’D be drinking if your friend had a girl you wanted to make yours, and you couldn’t tell her you loved her, because the point was probably moot…….

He posted $5,000 bond and was released after he sobered up.  Here is his little celebrity mug shot for your enjoyment.

Rick Springfield's Mug Shot