The following foods are often considered to contain mostly empty calories and may lead to weight gain: 1  Cake, cookies, sweets, candy, ice cream, soft drinks, fruit-flavored beverages and gelatin and other foods containing added sugars (including High-fructose corn syrup, HFCS).
Washington was concerned that the presidents of the Confederation Congress had been overwhelmed by visitors in the past. As a result, during the presidency Washington set aside the late afternoon for meetings with the public and evenings for dinner parties with invited guests.
Washington became America's first president. George Washington's Farewell Address announced that he would not seek a third term as president. --> warning against the rise of political parties and sectionalism as a threat to national unity. â¢ at the time Federalists and Republicans were divided between being pro-British and pro-French.