Recently a good portion of the world’s television viewing audience was glued to their sets watching 33 Chiléan miners being rescued from the collapsed mine they’d been trapped in for 69 days. When they finally emerged, they looked pretty healthy – mainly because the rescuers above had tailored a specific diet for them (as well as an exercise regime of about an hour a day). Well, not at first. Initially, when 700,000 tonnes of rock collapsed in a mine shaft mine [...]
Until relatively recently in human history, salt was a precious commodity. Urban legend has it that Roman soldiers were given money specifically to buy salt or were paid with salt, thus the word ‘salary,’ from the Latin salarium, and it’s why we say someone not good at their job isn’t worth their salt. Obviously if you had to fight barbarian hordes to buy substantial quantities of the stuff, or have your wife defy God and turn back to watch the [...]
During the starvation I wrote about the KFC Double Down – a reviled yet popular sandwich that uses fried chicken in place of bread. You read that right. Its 540 calories – more than 1/4 the recommended daily food intake for a woman, and almost 1/4 for a man – come locked and loaded with 5 milligrams of cholesterol. That’s twice the cholesterol of a Big Mac, and 1/2 the recommended daily intake. Of course there’s ‘good’ cholesterol and ‘bad’ [...]
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘Make us your slaves, but feed us’”. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky 187.2 lbs It’s official. I’m in the final 2 weeks of this phase of the project. Some of the email coming in is telling me “dude – people already know starvation is bad. Thanks Captain Obvious.” When it comes to, say, internment camp or desert island starvation, yes. Yes they do. But with people actively [...]
“People will do more research into the cellphone they buy than into the food they eat.” ~ James McWilliams 190.1 lbs Once again my weight is hovering, not dropping. But fortunately I found the culprit rather quickly. This week I’ve not eaten much at all. But among the things I did eat were a couple of veggie dogs. These are fake wieners that I’d bought for a barbecue a while back (prior to the starvation project), as a few of [...]
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you”. ~ African proverb 213.9 lbs. I’ve learned something interesting. Because I started this project at 240 lbs, dropping more than 25 lbs in 24 days doesn’t seem to alarm many people. I was speaking with a media analyst who was giving me some pointers on how to get the word out, and he was saying how the media isn’t really going to care until I look skeletal and [...]
As usual, Lean Cuisine publishes the Weight Watcher’s points value on the package. The chicken & vegetables with spaghettini in an herb sauce, at 270 Calories (just a little under a Calorie per gram) apparently clocks in at 5 points. I haven’t been through the Weight Watcher’s program, so the points are a mystery to me. If you’ve done WW (or are in it now) you likely know what they mean and if you’re not, then it’s meaningless anyhow, so [...]
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