- I'm Obsessed with Pizza Hut by drpr
17 y
3,795 2 Messages Shown
Blog: Raw Odyssey
I don't know what it is. For the past few days I've been thinking about
getting a deep dish double cheese pizza from Pizza Hut! Or, I could do
KFC. I
could really go for a salty fried chicken breast about now!! But I
shall take my little cravings one hour at a time. I went to the gym
this afternoon rather than drive out to the fast food restaurants. I
did 2.38 miles in 45 minutes on the treadmill - that's about a 19
minute mile- a nice improvement from where I started. I didn't look at
the clock until I'd completed 38 minutes; that means I had really good
music today. When I'm bored, it's all I can do to keep from looking at
the minutes ticking by. My calves and ankles hurt a bit because I was
on the elliptical trainer yesterday, but they didn't hurt enough to
make me slow down.
I found a very interesting website that helps
you calculate your calories burned based on personal info you input,
such as your height, weight, gender, age and resting pulse rate. I
used the site to enter a hypothetical 5- mile urban walk done at a slow
pace (2 1/2 hours to complete it). It said I would burn over 700
calories! I can't wait until Fall when the temperature drops because I
live 5 miles from my job right now and it would be nice to start
walking to work like I used to in the Midwest.
Here in the southwest it's way too hot. I'd be walking home in 110
degrees! Although I like the site, I was annoyed during the actual
mapping of my route- it was a pain to create the path, but then again
I'm one of those people who won't read directions. It wasn't difficult
to create the map, just a nuisance until I got the hang of picking
up/dropping the little nodes. Once you are done with your route you
can save it and make it public or private. You can give it a try
yourself at http://www.mapmyrun.com. A fun feature is the export of your route to Google Earth.
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- MSG - Slowly
Poisoning America
RRR by Aharleygyrl
17 y
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I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo, and spent years working for the government.
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He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America. In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies.
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No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so the scientists have to create them. They make these morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with a chemical when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates, causing rats (and humans?) to become obese They even have a title for the race of fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats" .
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I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and the fridge.
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MSG was in everything! The Campbell's soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals, Kraft salad dressings, especially the 'healthy low fat' ones. The items that didn't have MSG had something called Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, which is just another name for Monosodium Glutamate. It was shocking to see just how many of the foods we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. They hide MSG under many different names in order to fool those who catch on.
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But it didn't stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started asking at the restaurants what menu items had MSG. Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn't use MSG. But when we ask for the ingredient list, which they grudgingly provided, sure enough MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere. Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like TGIF, Chilis', Applebees and Denny's use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish, salad dressing and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin, their secret spice was MSG!
http://www.rense.com/general52/msg.htm
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