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Trump cabinet picks - off to a good start
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Yeah, I'm not in love with an anti-vaxxer being the HHS guy. Especially with a country filled with disease-ridden illegals bringing their crap over to infect us.
Nothing else hopefully he’ll get something going and joint operation with the FDA to get all the chemicals out of the food.
If people want to eat chemicals that should be their right. I'm thinking more of an awareness campaign, which won't stop Beefarilla from inhaling a carton of HoHos but it might make people think twice. There's just so much junk food, it's overwhelming. Rows and rows and rows of crap. Publix has a whole aisle filled with junk food breakfast cereal, it's like....who buys all that sht??
I was hoping something is simple as Cheerios or shredded wheat would have nothing but oats and wheat.
I’m not one of the organic only fanatics.
I was thinking just get rid of some of the ridiculous levels of preservatives and corn syrup in everything.
That’s said. I’ve been fixing some of my own stuff as simply as possible where I can.
...like a comedian stated. "I go into the grocery store and there it is - a Heath Food aisle- Damn, what does that say about the other aisle?" hummmmm
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Yeah, some of the “health food” isn’t fit the eat either.
My favorite was always “because of my father, republican I thought my name was Jesus Christ“
Vegan chik'un has like a thousand unpronounceable ingredients. Real chicken has one ingredient.
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A well rounded diet is Slim Jims. Even the wrapper is edible.
What was the oil that was banned from movie theater popcorn?
I missed that one ....
Pulling the Curtains on Another CSPI Scare Campaign: Coconut Oil and Popcorn
From the onset, CSPI’s campaign to demonize movie-theater popcorn was devised to make Americans deathly afraid of something they likely never considered a health threat at the time—saturated fat. When a CSPI-funded laboratory study revealed that a medium-sized serving of popcorn contained a whopping 37 grams of saturated fat (exceeding the USDA’s recommendation of 20 grams per day), CSPI knew it could strike fear in to moviegoers, wrote Chip and Dan Heath in their 2007 book Made to Stick:
CSPI sent bags of movie popcorn from a dozen theaters in three major cities to a lab for nutritional analysis. The results surprised everyone … the lab results showed, coconut oil was also brimming with saturated fat …
The challenge, [then-CSPI Director of Communications Art] Silverman realized, was that few people know what “37 grams of saturated fat” means. Most of us don’t memorize the USDA’s daily nutrition recommendations. Is 37 grams good or bad? And even if we have an intuition that it’s bad. we’d wonder if was “bad bad” (like cigarettes) or “normal bad” (like a cookie or a milk shake) …
The amount of fat in this popcorn was, in some sense, not rational. It was ludicrous. The CSPI needed a way to shape the message in a way that fully communicated this ludicrousness. Silverman came up with a solution.
CSPI called a press conference on September 27, 1992. Here’s the message it presented: “A medium-sized ‘butter’ popcorn at a typical neighborhood movie theater contains more artery-clogging fat [Jesus wept] than a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, a Big Mac and fries for lunch, and a steak dinner with all the trimmings – combined!”
Remembering the Great Anti-Popcorn Hysteria of 1994
The CSPI’s findings were met with fear and revulsion, which is presumably what it hoped for. The New York Times freaked out and published a piece that began with this gloriously dated lede: “The scariest thing at the movies isn’t Jason or Freddy Krueger. It isn’t even Mickey Rourke in a dramatic role. It’s popcorn.” The Los Angeles Times wrote of the “Nightmare at the Multiplex,” a 555-word condemnation of both coconut oil and Elle MacPherson’s acting abilities. (Ask your dad who she was).
The Popcorn Institute, a trade organization for the popcorn supply industry, responded to the CSPI’s report with a cautiously optimistic shrug. “We don’t think people are going to run screaming from the building because popcorn is sold,” Popcorn Institute spokesperson Deirdre T. Flynn told the Times. “If you eat it as a little indulgence now and then, it’s not going to kill you.”
But moviegoers were worried enough to pass on the popcorn, at least while they watched Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction later that year. Movie popcorn sales fell 50 percent over the next 12 months before eventually returning to their pre-CSPI sales levels once everyone forgot about that whole six-Big-Macs thing.
“The shock-value of CSPI’s efforts are short-lived. Movie theater popcorn sales rebounded after a year,” Tulsa World wrote in 2001, on CSPI’s 30th anniversary. “Recently, one major theater chain abandoned its low-cholesterol safflower-oil alternative and returned to using coconut oil to pop its corn. Why? Same reason Mexican restaurants still use pork fat in tamales. [It] tastes better.”
The CSPI’s win over the AMC concessions area was short-lived, and some analysts blame the CSPI itself for that. Just before it started screaming about popcorn, it was trying to steer health-conscious Americans away from Italian and Mexican restaurants; Roger Ebert noted that the group referred to fettuccine Alfredo as a “heart attack on a plate.” The always-outraged CSPI has since launched attacks on everything from food dyes to sugar to… popcorn again. (And for what its worth, its YouTube video “Barbie Supports Menu Labeling” is really something).
That's it. Funny because of our keto (cheeto) diet and wife's staying away from anti-inflammatory seed oils, coconut oil is one of the three we use now.
Well now they tout coconut oil as a miracle cure for pretty much whatever ails you, so it just goes to show that these people are clowns and not to be trusted.
I've said before: if cigarettes were really so terrible we'd all be dead. The Japanese would be extinct. The Bulgarians would be but a memory. They want to enable heroin use by giving out free needles and Narcan for when you overdose, but by god don't you dare smoke a cigarette.
Also note that they go after certain companies and not the industry as a whole. McDonalds always gets a shake down, but Wendy's is left alone. Juul was a major target, but the other e-cig makers weren't sued or even mentioned. That's why when they come out with some new thing that's going to kill us all I'm like, "**** off."
Coconut Oil is awesome .... I've been frying with it for years to raise the burning temp of butter
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