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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 |
A study conducted in the 1980′s indicates that a man who kisses his wife good-bye before heading out the door to work each morning has a higher income than those who don’t. Similar research also suggests that these same men live five years longer than those that don’t and get in less car accidents.
The suggestion is that men who partake in rituals of affection tend to be more diligent, stable, and more methodical which are all traits of higher wage-earners.
That first nugget of information was something I stumbled on in a New York Times article, but it made no mention of whether or not the study looked at the same traits in women. I came up empty on that research, but it did lead me to a host of other health and wellness trivia, most of which came from the Useless Information Society.
The Useless information Society is said to be made up of “Britain’s foremost thinkers, writers, and artists who explore the world’s most bizarre nooks and crannies to trade and share in useless information.”
Here are some tidbits I thought might either serve to better your health, or make you more interesting at cocktail parties. You decide.
• You use more calories eating celery than there are in celery itself.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient for waking you up in the morning.
• There are more than one hundred chemicals in one cup of coffee.
• Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
• Pound cake is so called because the original recipe required one pound of butter.
• The only food that does not spoil is honey. It is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.
• Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every day for most of her adult life.
• Eating chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil
• The U.S. government spent $277,000 on “pickle research” in 1993.
• Some toothpaste contains antifreeze.
• It takes a plastic container fifty thousand years to start decomposing.
HUNGRY?
• Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
• The average American chews 190 sticks of gum, drinks 600 sodas, and eats 135 pounds of sugar and 19 pounds of cereal per year.
• The biggest-selling restaurant food is French fries.
• The amount of potato chips Americans eat each year weighs six times more than the Titanic.
• Americans on average eat eighteen acres of pizza every day. Saturday night is the biggest night of the week for eating pizza.
• In Australia, the number-one topping for pizza is eggs. In Chile, the favorite topping is mussels and clams. In the United States, it’s pepperoni.
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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??