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Kiss your wife: earn more money PLUS 31 other odd bits of trivia
| February 17, 2010 | |
| Jo Wehage : Head Operations Ego |
AROUND THE NATION
• In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.
• In California, it is illegal to eat oranges while bathing.
• Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
• In Indiana, it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least thirty minutes after eating garlic.
And while these don’t fall into a health or wellness category, I thought they might serve as interesting public service announcements…
• In Cleveland, Ohio, it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
• And in case you were considering this….If you live in Michigan, it is illegal to put a skunk in your boss’s desk.
TO LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE
• You already read that you use more calories eating celery than there are in celery itself. We thought we’d remind you that celery was also #3 in our list of 10 super foods to increase libido because celery boosts androsterone, an odorless aphrodisiac in male perspiration.
• In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
• Nobody has yet explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
• Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58 percent.
• Percentage of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85 percent
Believe them or not, the overwhelming majority of these tidbits were published in the book, The Book of Useless Information, published in the U.S. by the Penguin Group. Pick-up a copy next time you need a good laugh or conversation-starter.
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Here’s a few more:
Most of what we consume on a daily basis isn’t real food, its synthetic and artificial
70% of all antibotics in the world are used in the meat industry.
Genetically Modified Corn and its derivaties makes up the majority of our diet.
Artificial colors (Yellow 6, red 5, etc) are made form petroleum.
Dispite the “brand names” on the supermarket shelves, only a handful of companies produce what’s in the supermarket.
In America it’s illegal to sell fresh milk, cheese, eggs, cut lettuce, and meat to your friends, neighbors, or family unless you are a giant corporation. They say that this is a safety concern, but there have never been recalls on products from small family farm-processed products.
Please read food labels and know what you’re eating. If you cannot pronounce an ingredient and don’t know what it is, its probably not good for you.
Demmand better food. Shop local businesses. Support local farmers. Be kind to our world.
Thanks for the contribution, Troy! Your additions reminded me of another item I recall reading:
How much water is required to produce 1 pound of beef?
2,464 gallons, according to the Water Education Foundation
2,500 gallons, accoding to Chairman of Food Science & Human Nutrition at
Michigan State
5,214 gallons, according to Soil & Water Specialists, Univ of California
441 gallons, according to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Check out this great post for what it would look like to skip meat for just ONE day:
http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2010/02/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-all-skipped-meat-for-just-one-day/
What’s wrong with “Genetically Modified Corn”?
The GMO corn essentially has “Round-Up” or similar herbicide spliced into its genes. This allows farmers to blanket spray “Round-Up” across an entire field, killing every plant except the corn. For one, that’s creepy. Two, you are eating “Round-Up” every time you eat GMO corn because it is in the genes of the corn itself, in addition to it being sprayed overtop. And as you probably know herbicides pollute the air, soil, and water.
This GMO corn is the main food source for the huge feed-lots of cattle. So every time you eat feed-lot beef (most all beef in the US) you are ingesting more “Round-Up”. This is a problem because chemicals compound in the animal as they move up through the food chain. Corn isn’t even a natural food source for cattle anyway. Cattle have evolved to eat grass not corn. The corn is only used because it’s cheap and fattens the cattle faster than grass; the whole bigger, better, faster, cheaper mentality.
The companies that produce GMO corn have patented the seed. It is supposed to be illegal to patent a living organism, but they get away with it because they have the $$$ to coerce politicians onto their side. And since corn is an open pollinating plant (pollinates via wind) it is cross-pollinating with non-GMO corn on other farms’ property, and the farmers of the non-GMO corn are getting sued for copyright infringement by the giant GMO corn companies. The GMO corn companies will not allow farmers to save their seed from year to year, requiring that you purchase new seed each year, it is in their contract. That means lost profits for the farmers and large profits for the big GMO companies. Of course the farmers of GMO corn get subsidized by the US government so that they can continue growing this GMO corn.
This may not sound like a bad thing, or it may sound appalling; to each their own. But I believe that GMO crops have a very far-reaching impact on how our food industry controls what and how most people eat. Did you notice that Pepsi Throwback contains “real sugar”. This is only on the markets now because sugar beets have recently become cheap and effortless to grow because of genetic modification. So instead of having a Pepsi full of GMO corn, you get a Pepsi full of GMO beets. The only upside is that sugar made form beets is more readily used by the body than sugar made from corn, therefore there is less excess sugar in the body to be turned into fats.
I would recommend you watch the DVDs “King Corn” and “Food, Inc.” They pretty much sum up the food industry today. There are a lot of bad things happening with our food that most people don’t even know about. Such as soaking beef in ammonia to kill e coli, how can ammonia be safe and nutritious? This process is only needed because the feed-lot cattle spend their lives standing knee deep in their own, well, you know where e coli comes from. Grass-fed cattle stand knee deep in grass, which doesn’t pose the inherent risk of e coli.
more info on gmo here: http://bit.ly/dsLXo3
I Get my Kiss but we missed the money part!!! Whats up with that??