Not So (O)Lean: Eating Faux Fat Makes You Real Fat
ABC News - 1 hour ago
Another diet myth bites the dust: Products containing the calorie-less fake fat Olean, of fat-free potato chips fame, will make you gain weight, not lose it.
@edgarblythe,
It might be that the thought that the chips are fat free causes people to eat them more uninhibitedly and it's the extra potatoes that makes people fat.
It's like green gas. You are led to believe you are saving the earth everytime you fill up the guzzler. Which sells more gas. And sets the gas industry at odds with the scientists.
Which is both odd and humouress.
@spendius,
One of my old bosses bought us lunch one day. She handed me a bag of Wow potato chips, which featured Olean. "I bought these for you, because you eat healthy," she said. When I pointed out that there is a warning label hidden on the back of the bag, which noted that vitamin K and something else I forget is depleted from the body by Olean, she grew angry. "You can eat those now and eat something healthy later." She was like a pig at the dinner table, but used a health guru of some sort to try to undo all her transgressions at the same time. Last I heard of her, she was on a dialysis machine. Every year, her daughter predicts, will be her last. Yet, she hangs in somehow.
@edgarblythe,
Now that's dark humour Ed, I love it....
@edgarblythe,
The ironies of life, always the funniest.
@eurocelticyankee,
Sure is. The boss, a female too, bringing ed a gift of a bag of chips is quite ironic I must admit.
@spendius,
It could only happen to a socialist.
Amish Man Arrested For Sexting 12-Year-Old Girl
www.huffingtonpost.com
Is it fair to say sexting is out of control when even the Amish can't keep it in their phones? The Smoking Gun reports that a 21-year-old Amish man was arrested last week during an undercover sting operation when he tried to meet with a 12-year-old girl...
A young emperor penguin, normally found in the Antarctic, has turned up on a New Zealand beach.
It is a rare event, the first confirmed sighting of an Emperor penguin in New Zealand in 44 years.
"I saw this glistening white thing standing up and I thought I was seeing things," said Christine Wilton, who found it while walking her dog.
The department of conservation is baffled by how it arrived, saying it may have taken a wrong turn.
"It's amazing to see one of these penguins on the Kapiti coast," says the department's Peter Simpson.
The visitor has attracted crowds of onlookers, who are being advised not to disturb the penguin and keep their dogs on leads.
Conservation experts say the bird is a juvenile, about 10 months old and 32in (80cm) tall.
Emperor penguins are the tallest and largest of all penguin species, growing up to 4ft (122cm) high and weighing more than 75lb (34kg).
Colin Miskelly, a penguin expert at Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum, said the bird was likely born during the last Antarctic winter.
It may have been searching for squid and krill when it took a wrong turn and arrived on New Zealand's North Island.
Peeping Tom hides in porta-potty
June 22, 2011 at 5:58 AM
Diane Alter – AHN News Trivia Writer
Boulder, CO, United States (AHN) – Even some yoga meditation and a pure spiritual state didn’t help when a woman in Boulder, Colorado, went to use a portable toilet at a yoga festival and found a man hiding in the tank when she lifted the lid.
Police said the woman noticed something moving inside the tank and went to festival security for help. Security officials reported seeing a man, covered in a tarp, inside the tank. The suspect eventually rose from the toilet and slithered away, covered in human waste
The suspect is believed to be in his 20s and is being sought on charges of criminal attempt to make unlawful sexual contact. Police just might smell him before they spot him.
@Reyn,
Quote:Police said the woman noticed something moving inside the tank and went to festival security for help. Security officials reported seeing a man, covered in a tarp, inside the tank. The suspect eventually rose from the toilet and slithered away, covered in human waste.
Why didn't they call the police then and there and keep the person locked in the portapotty until the police arrive. What a bunch of incompetents to just let this guy leave.
@edgarblythe,
Yes it does! I accidentally read it on my lunch break.
Speaking of lunch break, don't go back and read the story about the artificial meat made from human feces right now.
@edgarblythe,
Quote:It could only happen to a socialist.
Considering some of the things I've seen happen to socialists ed it's pretty tame really. Unless it was a er er er........ we had better not go into that.
Was it on Labour Day? Or your birfday.
You know, spendi - not to start a diversion that kills the thread - I would make a very good socialist, assuming all within the system were of equal conviction and that it was democratic, with each working to the best of his ability and each receiving their equal share. The reason I would not lift a finger to institute a socialist system is because far too many persons are only semi committed or else are in their hearts deeply opposed to socialism. What I would work for is a system whereby the opposing philosophies were integrated into a well regulated economy and votes and laws of checks and balances kept the people from drifting into a lopsided conservative or liberal government and industry.
@Reyn,
Gah-ross!!!
Definitely fits the 'odd' category, though.
Ewww, ewww, ewww!
@edgarblythe,
I don't think that's a diversion ed. It's quite odd and very humouress.
The Pied Piper springs to mind.
