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	Couch potato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A couch potato is (originally U.S. slang for a person who spends most or much of his time sitting or lying on a couch, or perhaps an armchair or recliner, watching television in his underwear and often drinking beer.
		Some studies have said that the "couch potato lifestyle" is a serious health hazard to its practitioners[1]; in the United Kingdom, a plan of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit tied attempts "to combat the couch potato culture" to "[improving the U.K.'s] international sporting performance" [2].
		The origin of the neologism 'mouse potato', obviously a play on words between a (computer) mouse and a couch, is unknown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Couch_potato (341 words)

	uExpress.com: Scott Burns by Scott Burns -- (01/20/2004) THE COUCH POTATO SMOOTHS YOUR RIDE
		When it comes to investment worries, the Couch Potato portfolio may be a better treatment than Zoloft, Paxil or Prozac, the three top-selling anti-depression drugs.
		If you were a traditional Couch Potato investor -- which means you put your money in the original Vanguard 500 Index fund and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index fund -- your return for 2003 was 16.24 percent for the 50/50 portfolio or 22.38 percent for the more aggressive 75/25 portfolio.
		At the close of 1999, the trailing returns for the 50/50 Couch Potato ranged from 10.16 percent (for 1999) to a high of 18.06 percent (for the trailing five years).
	www.uexpress.com /scottburns?uc_full_date=20040120 (758 words)

	spiked-essays \| Essay \| Mashing the 'couch potato' myth
		Indeed, the 'couch potato' is often described as the phenomenon at the heart of the 'obesity epidemic'.
		In this context, the 'couch potato' is the perfect catchall, condensing everything that is supposedly wrong with today's children into one easily digested image.
		Furthermore, 'couch potato-ism' holds that because technology is becoming more sophisticated, children are less able to resist technology's lure, and are more likely to spend more time using technology, less time doing physical activity and, therefore, more likely to be obese.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/0000000CA70C.htm (3394 words)

	Couch Potato Portfolio
		The couch potato approach to investing is scientifically designed to permit you to invest without worry, without reading the news and without following what is happening to Intel.
		The couch potato portfolio above is designed for US investors but could easily be adapted for investors with short attention spans in other countries.
		Sit on your couch and pick up the phone to buy mutual funds with the lowest possible expense ratios and 12b-1 fees which deliver the goods.
	fisher.osu.edu /fin/cern/notsure.htm (592 words)

	Welcome to Couch Potato® \| Couch Potato®
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	cp.fox6.com (298 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - couch potato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LONDON -- British potato farmers demonstrated outside Parliament on Monday to publicize their bid to remove the term "couch potato" from the Oxford English Dictionary, arguing that the description of slothful TV addicts harms the vegetable's image.
		The group of about 30 farmers carried signs that read "couch potato out" and "ban the term couch potato." A similar rally took place in Oxford, central England.
		"The potato industry are fed up with the disservice that 'couch potato' does to our product when we have an inherently healthy product," said Kathryn Race, head of marketing at the British Potato Council, a body set up by the government to run advertising campaigns promoting potato consumption and research issues linked to the vegetable.
	www.wordwizard.com /newnav/chforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18050 (719 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Farmers stew over 'couch potato'
		Farmers want "couch potato" removed from the dictionary because they believe the expression is damaging the vegetable's image.
		A campaign promoting the use instead of "couch slouch" is being led by the British Potato Council, representing 4,000 growers and processors.
		The first recorded use of "couch potato" was in the Los Angeles Times in 1979 and it entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1993, he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4108964.stm (268 words)

	Couch Potato at Online Casino Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A couch potato is (originally U.S.) slang for a person who spends most or much of...
		Farmers call for the term 'couch potato' to be removed from the dictionary, saying the phrase is harming the vegetable's image.
		Farmers want "couch potato" removed from the dictionary because they believe the expression is...
	www.onlinecasinoquest.com /find_couch+potato.html (516 words)

	Sheila Moss Humor Columnist - Couch Potato
		Any good couch potato, male or female, will tell you that their most non-productive minutes are spent in front of a television set.
		One must be a dedicated and determined couch potato to twist the body into a pretzel shape that will be accommodated by this sort of couch.
		The true couch potato will be found in an inclined position, hogging the entire sofa, and pretending to be wide awake, even while snoring.
	www.humorcolumnist.com /couchpotato.htm (775 words)

	Fidgeting Separates Fat From Fit Couch Potato
		27, 2005 -- All couch potatoes may not be created equal, according to a new study that shows the need to sit or fidget may be biological.
		They found that, on average, lean couch potatoes stood up and moved around about two hours longer than the obese ones.
		In the second phase of the study, researchers put the obese couch potatoes on a diet and reduced their calorie intake by 1,000 calories per day and overfed the lean couch potatoes by the same amount.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/99/105421.htm (581 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Potato farmers want 'couch potato' expelled from dictionary
		In their fight for the image of potato about 30 farmers took to the streets, demonstrating outside Parliament and carrying signs that read "couch potato out" and "ban the term couch potato." A similar rally took place in Oxford, central England.
		BPC is not a pioneer in making politics with potato: 3 years ago an Egyptian company launched production of potato chips with the photo of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the package.
		British potato farmers become experts in linguistics - they want the term "couch potato" be banished from the Oxford English Dictionary.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/06/20/60408.html (1917 words)

	Couch Potato Pro
		Couch Potato Pro works with our IR Master model Cybermate Control Unit for "stand alone" or PC operation.
		Couch Potato Pro Software downloads the Cybermate Control Unit connected to the PC's serial port with your control data.
		Couch Potato also has a Scheduler so that you can control things by time of day and day of the week.
	www.dancraft.com /cpps.html (919 words)

	Articles - Couch potato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A couch potato is (originally U.S. slang for a person who spends most or much of his time sitting or lying on a couch, or perhaps an armchair or
		Some studies have said that the "couch potato lifestyle" is a serious health hazard to its practitioners, a plan
		The origin of the neologism ´mouse potato´, obviously a play on words between a (computer) mouse and a couch, is unknown.
	www.1-furniture.net /articles/Couch_potato (286 words)

	Technorati Tag: couch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Angelina Jolie Kicks Brad Pitt to the Couch National Ledger, AZ - Apr 4, 2006… that poor Brad is sleeping alone- because Angelina Jolie, his seven and...
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	Couch Potato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ridgebacks are notorious couch potatoes and mine are no exception.
		I even bought "couches" to accomodate them - leather, their color, two of them and one generous chair.
		If there's no enough room on the couch, one can always get her beauty sleep on the back of the sofa.
	www.geocities.com /kalaharirr/extra/couchpotato.html (163 words)

	WFTV.com - News - 480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck.
		Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric.
		After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
	www.wftv.com /news/3643877/detail.html (533 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Couch potato label gives veg a bad name - farmers
		British farmers have launched a campaign to remove the term "couch potato" from the dictionary because they fear its negative connotations are putting people off buying the vegetable.
		The British Potato Council has written to the Oxford English Dictionary to ask for it to be taken out.
		The campaign was supported by Nigel Evans, the Conservative MP for the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, who has tabled a motion in Parliament to support the term's removal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1510150,00.html (506 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Couch potato clue to obesity epidemic
		Genes may be the key factor in determining how active a person naturally is, suggests a new study of "couch potatoes".
		The team designed undergarments fitted with sensors to study the posture and movements of 20 self-proclaimed "couch potatoes" for 10 days.
		That translates to an extra 350 calories for the same daily food intake and could mean that these "extreme" couch potatoes pack on an extra 15 kilograms per year.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn6940 (611 words)

	SI.com - Writers - Don Banks: Week 16 from the couch - Monday December 22, 2003 12:08PM
		Sitting on my couch while talking on the phone to the home office in Atlanta as Carney missed the kick, those were my thoughts exactly.
		All the recent optimistic words regarding Couch's future as a Brown might have been a case of premature negotiation, given that Couch looked very Couch-ian against Baltimore on Sunday.
		In what could wind up being the last home game of his rocky five-year stay in Cleveland, Couch went 17-of-33 for 163 yards with one interception, two fumbles and five sacks.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/writers/don_banks/12/21/week16.notes (2324 words)

	Couch potato contentment - Smart Fitness - MSNBC.com
		Yet many are overweight, out-of-shape couch potatoes — and that seems to be just fine with a lot of them, suggests a new nationwide fitness survey.
		Seventy percent of respondents said they were completely or somewhat satisfied with their physical health and 66 percent said the same about their physical appearance, according to the survey, commissioned by the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), an industry trade group in Boston.
		Live vote: Are you a contented couch potato?
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6909463 (800 words)

	Being Lazy With A Couch Potato Portfolio
		Additionally, if the couch potato portfolio isn't possible in your retirement plan, an alternative strategy is to invest half of your portfolio in a tax-free Treasury fund rather than a Treasury-index fund.
		In Burns' 2002 update, his couch potato portfolio obtained a 10.37% total return from 1991 to 2001.
		Over the period of 1986 to 2001, the sophisticated couch potato strategy returned 12.3% while the average equity index returned 11.85%.
	www.investopedia.com /articles/mutualfund/03/043003.asp (1006 words)

	CNN.com - Couch potato 'ruins spud's image' - Jun 20, 2005
		Kathryn Race, head of marketing at the British Potato Council which represents some 4,000 growers and processors, said the group had written to the Oxford English Dictionary stating its objections but had not yet had a response.
		John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, said the term couch potato was first included in 1993.
		The first known recorded use of the expression "couch potato" was in a 1979 Los Angeles Times article, Simpson said.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/06/20/britain.farmers (444 words)

	Couch Potato Olympics
		This is the web page which will track the standings in the ongoing Couch Potato Olympics challenge.
		The Couch Potato Olympics competition is all about bragging rights.
		I think the beginning of January is a good time to end the Couch Potato season, since it signifies the end of the football season and the holiday season, and thus begins a time when we all begin to get up off of our asses and go do something.
	www.jcffl.com /couchpotato (367 words)

	The Couch Potato Test
		Do you ever spend the whole day on the couch watching TV when you aren't sick?
		Yell to your roommate or spouse to see if they know what time the car has to be moved.
		Are any of the cushions on your couch severely worn in?
	www.queendom.com /tests/minitests/fx/couch_potato.html (265 words)

	STUDIO 2B: LOUNGE - Girl Scout Stuff
		The "Couch Potato" Interest Project is a cool way to improve your TV viewing habits so your potato chip is "baked," not "fried."
		Lead a "couch aerobics" class with your family, friends, or at your next group meeting.
		In honor of the "Couch Potato" IP, the dinner will include one recipe that uses potatoes (keep it real; your potatoes can't be instant or microwavable).
	www.studio2b.org /lounge/gs_stuff/ip_potato.asp (1328 words)

	Brent and Eivind's Couchbike Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Below is the story of Brent and Eivind's travels through Maritime Canada on a human powered couch.
		But what made our bike so special, and also what seemed to be Constable Demeau's chief concern, was the couch.
		I steered the bike with a tiller linked to the two front wheels on either side of the couch.
	www.bikeforest.com /cb/cb.php (244 words)

	uExpress: HOW TO UNDERSTAND COUCH POTATO INVESTING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Many readers misunderstand the Couch Potato Portfolio, my low-cost and simple approach to investing.
		Every year brings letters and e-mails from readers asking exactly which fund should be used and exactly what percent of their money should be invested in it.
		Thankfully, a new book makes it all clear: "The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing." It will help everyone understand how to be a Couch Potato Investor (and why), whether their portfolio consists of only two funds or nearly a dozen.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_km2912/is_200401/ai_n6904032 (215 words)

	Couch potato culture
		TODAY'S BABIES are in danger of becoming couch potatoes, say some investigators in America.
		A professor also said that movement contributes < > are in danger of becoming couch potatoes.
		It is hoped that children as well as teachers may soon appreciate that plain ideas become 'gold' often by virtue of the creative thought that is produced in a group thinking together - what we designate a 'community of enquiry'.
	www.dialogueworks.co.uk /newswise/months/april99/cojun.html (4556 words)

	CBC News: Ban 'couch potato' from dictionary: spud farmers
		CBC News: Ban 'couch potato' from dictionary: spud farmers
		British spud farmers protested outside Parliament Monday to demand that the term "couch potato" be taken out of the Oxford English Dictionary, saying the description is harmful to the vegetable's image.
		"The potato industry are fed up with the disservice that 'couch potato' does to our product when we have an inherently healthy product," said Kathryn Race, head of marketing at the council, which represents 4,000 growers and processors.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/06/20/spud-protest0506.html (298 words)

	Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K Running Plan
		In fact, the beginners' program we outline here is less of a running regimen than a walking and jogging program.
		The idea is to transform you from couch potato to runner, getting you running three miles (or 5K) on a regular basis in just two months.
		Whether you have taken up running to lose weight, to improve fitness, to relieve stress, to compete, or just to kill time, you'll find that the benefits are many.
	www.coolrunning.com /engine/2/2_3/181.shtml (807 words)

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