2006 May
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The film Supersizeme made a good case for why a diet consisting entirely of McDonalds food could transform your body quicker than Robert De Niro in Raging Bull. Recently evidence suggests that the main culprit may not be fatty food, but sugared, caffeinated water. The beverage industry is scheduled to announce today that it is voluntarily removing high-calorie soft drinks from all schools. This may not be entirely fair. An average 12 ounce can of cola typically contains 120 calories. However its not just sodas that pack in the calories, fruit juices have more and the same size serving of grape juice, an elementary-school lunchroom staple, contains a whopping 165 calories. It doesn’t really matter how healthy, natural or traditional the drink may seem when you are eating or drinking too much. Despite marginal differences in the way we digest different foods, the bottom line is that calories in =…
On the subway yesterday there was a guy preaching love in the name of Jesus, at the top of his voice. He seemed pretty angry – but he was preaching ‘gods love’ so I guess that was supposed to be OK. Then he started talking about what should happen if a woman were to lie down with another woman etc. (i.e. encouraging people to murder gays) as it says in the nasty, brutish book that people call the holy bible. I don’t tolerate this kind of aggressive religious intolerance – so I told him to shut up. This made things very uncomfortable, nearly everyone in the carriage now looked at me as the devil incarnate and rallied in support of the preacher – saying amen after everything he said. If I mentioned that it was in Harlem and on a Sunday, and that therefore the whitey in a very religious…