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Just learned about this site iHerb.com.  No it’s not just herbs, they have all kinds of supplements, health care products, toiletries, etc.  Good deals, check em out.  Their prices on some stuff pretty much blows away anywhere else.  Free shipping >$40, otherwise a $4 flat rate UPS ground.

Deals I especially recommend (big bottle=great deal):
SweetLeaf Stevia extract. It’s alcohol-free unlike most other stevia extracts. 0 cals, no glycemic, natural sweetener. Use it in tea, smoothies, cooking, whatever.
Singing Dog Organic Vanilla Extract: This price is unreal.  I paid this much for a tiny bottle of it at the grocery store.  Good stuff, I like to use it in my morning banana cacao sorbet concoction.
Dr. Bronner’s Almond 18in1 Soap: This soap is pretty amazing. I’ve only recently got into it, but I guess it can be used for all kinds of things, even in the dishwasher or clothes washer.  Little bit goes a long way. The almond scent is pretty delicious.
Earthrise Spirulina: I can’t speak for this product as I haven’t used it yet, but the price is very hot. Spirulina has many purported health benefits, it can be sprinkled on a salad or used in a smoothie.

Use Coupon Code GOT930 for $5 off:
iHerb.com

If you are interested in keeping track of your caloric and/or nutrient intake for the purposes of improving health or losing/gaining weight, I recommend taking CRON-o-meter for a spin.  It is free open source software for Windows, Mac, or Linux.  You input each item you eat and it tallies all the nutritional data for you.  You may find this too tedious to be doing long-term, but I recommend doing it for a few days or a week to see how some of the numbers look, you may be surprised at the results.  You can run a report which will show you daily averages.  It’s also very informative in that you can see the nutrient breakdowns of various foods, and learn to eat more of certain things if your diet lacks in certain nutrients.

It has a pretty large database of foods, but if you don’t find something, you can also add the food manually.  Keep in mind that if the food is not in the database, it may be a sign that you shouldn’t be eating it (i.e. processed crap).

You can also group a set of foods into a custom recipe for ease of adding later (but be aware that if you alter the recipe later it alters it in your previous days also).

You can alter your nutrient goals if you don’t like the predetermined RDA’s for you.  (Some RDA’s are BS, as influenced by the meat and dairy industries.  For instance the protein and calcium recommendations are too high in my opinion.)  It will show you what proportion of your calories come from Protein/Carbs/Fat.  You can alter this target ratio.  You can track your weight or other parameters on the Biomarkers tab and use it to graph them over time.  Remember: to lose a sustainable pound per week of fat, shoot for a daily 500 calorie deficit.

There are on-line solutions for this kind of thing as well, namely fitday.com and nutridiary.com, which I admittedly have not tried.  I like CRON-o-meter because it’s light, snappy, simple, powerful.  I don’t feel the need for any extra functionality.

Remember it’s best to eat whole fresh ripe raw organic fruits and vegetables, and not rely on supplements.  It’s best to avoid refined sugars and starches, processed foods, and dairy.

http://spaz.ca/cronometer/

Let me plug two things:

#1: Hulu.com.  Don’t have cable?  Watch TV online, free.  For instance they feature last night’s presidential debate right on their front page today.  Or you could just drudge it up on the youtube.

#2: