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Trivia: Forty Four Fantastic Food Facts

January 5, 2007

How about that alliteration huh? :-) Seriously, cheesy though it may be, I found 44 pretty cool facts about food. Just be thankful I didn’t drag it out even longer (think Peter Piper picked a peck…).

Mmmm, Coke! I Drink My Body Weight in Sugar Annually!

December 19, 2006

Below is an excellent little video that shows exactly how much sugar is in a can of coke. And before you watch it, if you do a little math, here are some staggering figures: There are 12 ounces (340 grams) in a can of coke. There are 39 grams (1.38 ounces) of sugar in a [...]

Coke as a Health Drink?

October 24, 2006

With all the bad news about Coke making people fat and generally being bad for you, finally some good news! Researchers at the University of Maryland did a little test by dropping teeth into 12 different beverages for 2 weeks to see what happens to enamel over roughly the period of a decade in your [...]

You’re Sweet… Fat, but Sweet.

October 20, 2006
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According to the US Agricultural Research Service, the average American consumes 74 pounds of added sugar each year. That’s about 23 teaspoons of added sugars every day–or 460 calories that supply no additional nutrients. To put that in perspective, your average guy would need to do high impact aerobics for a full hour every day [...]

Lose the Love Handles

July 24, 2006

Wired Magazine (August 2006) reports that Autodesk founder (you know… AutoCAD) and Hacker’s Diet author, John Walker, claims you can lose 10 pounds in two months by simply eating less. Multiply the pounds you want to lose by the number of calories in a pound of fat: 10 x 3,500 = 35,000 Divide the total [...]

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