Brown rice, brown bread, brown sugar, etc...Are Brown Foods Really Better?

Brown rice vs. white rice is one of the main food debates today. Eating brown foods automatically makes your diet healthier, right?

Not necessarily. So which brown foods matter the most?

Brown Sugar: No. Sugar is sugar. The major differences between turbinado sugar, otherwise known as “natural” or “raw” sugar, and white sugar are the size of crystals and the presence of molasses, which gives darker sugar its color. Otherwise they have about the same amount of calories and carbohydrates, says Jo-Anne Rizzotto, M.S., R.D., former education specialist at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

Brown Rice: Yes. “Unlike white rice, where nutrients are stripped away, brown rice still has the whole grain in one piece, so it’s full of fiber, vitamins and minerals,” says Rachel Brandeis, M.S., R.D., an Atlanta-based spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

Brown Bread: Not Necessarily. “Some manufacturers add caramel coloring in place of whole-grain flour to achieve a brown color,” says Brandeis. The first word in the list of ingredients should be whole, signifying that the grain is still intact. But the next doesn’t have to be wheat. Any whole grain — oat, corn or rye — is rich in fiber and antioxidants.

Brown Eggs: No. The only difference between a white and a brown egg is the color of the shell, and that’s determined by the hen’s breed. Still, not all eggs are created equal. Some farmers fortify chicken feed with nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids or vitamins, which end up in the yolk, making a truly good egg.

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Have You Seen This Pink Serial Bank Robber?

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A woman known only as the "pink bank robber" is wanted in Maryland, USA., and she definitely is more fashion-forward than the typical thief.

The suspect targeted two separate Capitol One banks on December 2 and December 27.

Each time, she wore an all pink outfit, including a pink headscarf, pink jacket and even a pink cell phone, Fox Baltimore reported.

In each case, she gives a teller a note demanding cash and flees the scene in her pink ensemble after getting her green money, the Associated Press reported.

The stylishly-dressed suspect is described as a black female in her late 20s, approximately 5'8"-5'11."

Anyone with information on the pink bank robber is asked to call the CID Robbery Unit at 301-772-4905, or go to www.pgpolice.org and submit a tip online.

Crime Solvers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and indictment in these crimes.

Woman Sues Wicked Husband Who Allegedly Duped Her Out Of $744,000 He Spent On Mistress

 


The New York Daily News reports that underwear heiress and Candice Feinberg, 39, claims her husband convinced her to give him $744,000 she thought was for gambling debts, when in fact the cash was for his mistress.

A $10 million lawsuit filed by the New York woman against her spouse says she was led "to believe that her husband, Steven Lalicata, whom she had recently married, owed large gambling debts to members of organized crime. Through a series of coordinated communications, they led her to believe physical well-being would be in jeopardy if she did not make huge amounts of cash available to him on short notice."

Feinberg's father, Herbert Feinberg, is "credited with inventing seamless panties," the Daily News reports.

The suit also names Lalicata's alleged mistress, Diana Fernandez.

Oscar Holt, Fernandez's attorney, told the New York Post that Fernandez and Lalicata were “just friends.”

Feinberg's lawsuit tells a very different story, alleging that Fernandez sent her a text that said "Your husband is in my house right now…he sucks the habichuelas [beans] right out of my a--. Squeaky clean now…”

The couple was married in 2011 and the suit was filed in June of 2012, but reported on this week.




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PHOTO/VIDEO: Woman Finds 4-foot-long Python In Her Secondhand Sofa

Now here's a story guaranteed to make you squirm and check underneath your sofas!

A woman in Michigan recently got the surprise of her life when she discovered a large 4 foot long python coiled in the folds of her couch.
According to ABC News, Grand Rapids resident Holly Wright made the shocking find over the weekend, when she spotted a large snake slithering around in a secondhand couch she had picked up.
"I picked this couch up off the street and it's been in my bedroom for a couple months, and today we found a python inside the couch," Holly Wright said in a video obtained by ABC News' Grand Rapids affiliate WZZM-TV.
Wright said she had cleaned the couch when she brought it home and never noticed the stowaway snake. She believes the reptile's appetite is what prompted it to come out of hiding.
"It didn't really react or hiss ... It was quite cold in the room, there was no food for the snake and I think it came out of the couch because it was dying," she said.
Wright may be right, as the python did die before she was able to get help for it.

                   

"It's been really sad actually to realize all this time I was in proximity to that animal [and it] was probably suffering," she told WZZM.
The snake received a proper burial and the couch got kicked back to the curb, along with a written warning — "Do Not Pick Up."


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Man Arrested After Selling Stolen Human Brains On eBay

Suspect nabbed in police sting operation

Man who bought brain tissue for $600 on eBay tipped police

Much of the stolen material has been returned to museum

The brain tissue was taken from the Indiana Medical History Museum, site of the former Central State Hospital, which treated patients with psychiatric and mental disorders from 1848 to 1994.





David Charles, 21, is accused of stealing human brain tissue from the Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis, and selling the looted organs on eBay, the Indy Star reported. Officials say Charles stole jars of preserved brain tissue -- which came from deceased psychiatric patients -- on multiple occasions over the past year.

Museum officials reported several break-ins over the course of the year. Police were tipped off to the underhanded eBay deals by a buyer who purchased six jars of brains at $100 apiece and later ascertained that the transactions might be fishy.

Investigators say they nabbed Charles in a sting operation, meeting up with him outside a Dairy Queen on December 16, Fox 59 reported.

They also note Charles wasn't exactly discreet about his illicit endeavors. He wrote "Yo I got a bunch of human brains in jars for sale hmu [hit me up] for details u know u want one for Halloween," on Facebook on October 14.

The museum has recovered much, though not all, of the stolen material, executive director Mary Ellen Hennessey Nottage told the Indy Star.

The brains that belong to the museum come from about 2,000 psychiatric patients from the now-closed Central State Hospital, which was in operation from 1848 to 1994, according to Raw Story. The Indiana Medical History Museum now stands on the site of the former hospital.

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