: About Me

Hello, and thanks for taking time to learn a bit more about me. I am a 27-year-old journalism/public relations student at Troy University in Troy Alabama. My college career got off to a late start after some military and business endeavors, but it's going strong now.

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My passion is ...

The Denver Broncos

I know too much about ...

The back of my eyelids

My parents always told me ...

Go to your room

My childhood ambition ...

To be a professional basketball player

My favorite memory ...

remembering how I forgot to take the Ginkgo Biloba this morning

Why I write ...

Expression, fun, and maybe money some day

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Such a general question deserves a vague answer

My first job ...

Selling portrait packages

My best moment ...

Waking up from a bad dream

My inspiration ...

So many

Health & Fitness > Nutrition & Health Issues McDonald's Big Mac turned 40 in 2007: Time to retire this icon of unhealthy fast food?

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The fact that the 40-year-old Big Mac has not clogged its own arteries, suffered a fatal heart attack, and been buried in a cardboard carton casket is dumbfounding. After four decades of throwing its weight around, it's time the Big Mac retired to the nutritional hall of shame. The Big Mac, invented by Jim Delligatti a Pennsylvania McDonalds franchisee in 1967, delivers an astounding 590 calories and 29 grams of fat per sandwich. According to an article in The Independent by Rachael Shields, U.S. sales of Big Macs exceed 550 million sandwiches per year. This works out to be 17,582 tons of ...

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