milk doesn't do a body good

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/got-milk-you-dont-need-it/

article about how the us pushes for milk consumption when it isn't necessarily needed or good for us...i used to buy milk for cereal even though i was lactose intolerant...then i tried rice and soy milk, which were ok...then i started buy lactose free milk, but now i stopped eating cereal and have no need for milk

no more red meat

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/13/eating-all-red-meat-increases-death-and-more-reasons-to-never-eat-meat.html

red meat increases early death...i eat at least 2lbs of red meat a week...gotta cut down...too much galbi

chicken mcnuggets redux

the pink goop in the pic is what is used to make mcnuggets...amazing what breading and frying can do to make something nasty taste good...do i still want to eat 50 of these?...maybe

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-10-04/news/30037622_1_white-meat-chicken-nuggets

"This is mechanically separated chicken. Chickens are turned into this goop so we can create delicious chicken nuggets and juicy chicken patties. It's obscenely gross and borderline alien but it's not going to stop me from eating nuggets. They're too good.

The process works a little something like this:

There's more: because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color."

mcnuggets

50 piece mcnuggets are back for $9.99...i think it comes in a meal too...2 large sized drinks, 2 large fries, and 50 nuggets...supposed to be a meal for 2...i think i can finish it

green juice

a gallon of green juice for the week...lots and lots of kale, 2 cucumbers, 2 small apples, one large korean pear, 2lbs of strawberries, a bundle of dropwort, a bundle of korean chard, 2 large heads of broccoli, and 2 kiwis

juicer

i decided to get a juicer and make my version of the mean green juice...it's from the movie/documentary fat, sick, and nearly dead...it's about a guy in poor health who drank this juice for a couple months and got healthy

http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/about-the-film/learn-more/recipies/

i changed the recipe a bit since i thought adding celery was a waste and didn't want to add ginger or lemon...i bought the following at the market...crap load of kale, korean cucumbers, korean pears (did not use this time), korean chard, kiwi, drop wort, broccoli...i also added a honey crisp apples, a regular green pear, and a plum

most veggies i have bought ever

 above is the amount i put in to make the first batch of juice minus one kiwi

the result...half a pitcher of juice and the left over pulp in the bowl...taste? - grassy and bland...more fruit would probably make it sweeter, but i didn't want too much sugar...the next test is to see if i can store it over night without it oxidizing too much...i'm pleased with the performance of the juicer...better than the blendtec blender that i got and then returned a few months back...i think i prefer juice to smoothie...it's also much quieter...i got the hurom slow masticating juicer..a bit pricey at $360...one drawback is that since it is a slow juicer, it takes a long time compared to the blendtec...with the blender, i can throw all ingredients in as is, and it'll be done in about a minute...the juicer required adding of the fruit and veggies gradually, and i had to cut them into small pieces...overall, it probably took an hour to wash, chop, juice, and clean up

http://www.hurom-slowjuicer.com/  made by a korean company

hot stuff

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/30/worlds-hottest-peppe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

the interesting part is about taste buds...what it boils down to is that people who can tolerate hot stuff suck at tasting food

Chileheads are hooked on high doses of capsaicin, gobbling up ultra-hot peppers and food smothered in blistering sauces like Cyanide DOA, Satan's Blood, and Toxic Waste. This stuff is almost unimaginably hot. You have to taste some to understand. Try this: put a couple of drops of Tabasco Sauce on your tongue. Hot, right? Tabasco Sauce rates between 2,500 and 5,000 on the Scoville scale, the standard measurement system for chile pepper heat. Now try a drop of Mad Dog Inferno, a ridiculously hot sauce that clocks in at 90,000 Scoville units. As I chewed ice cubes and blinked away tears after touching a miniscule droplet of Mad Dog Inferno to my tongue from the tip of a toothpick, I knew I'd never make it as a chilehead.

That's because I'm not a nontaster, explains Dave DeWitt, author of 30 books about chile peppers and spicy foods, including The Whole Chile Pepper Book and The Hot Sauce Bible. DeWitt is referring to a Yale surgeon's study in the 1970s that identified three types of people: nontasters, medium tasters, and supertasters. Nontasters are born with as few as 11 taste buds per square centimeter of tongue, while supertasters can have as many as 1,100 taste buds crammed into the same area. Capsaicin has no taste, but taste buds not only sense flavor, they also transmit pain and temperature signals to the brain. That's why nontasters can tolerate high doses of spice, says DeWitt, who considers chileheads to be on the far right side of the pepper bell curve. "In any movement you have your fringe element," he says.

For a chilehead, 90,000 Scovilles is pabulum. Andy Barnhart, a recently retired chief scientist for a telecommunications company in Maryland, likes to dump habanero powder (400,000 Scovilles) on his ice cream "until it turns almost black." But even that doesn't turn Barnhart's crank like it used to. "I've now gotten into Pure Cap; that is really hot stuff," says Barnhart, 61. "I blend it with a little alcohol to preserve it and I put it in a bottle with an eyedropper and I carry it around with me." (Pure Cap, a 570,000 Scoville unit extract, isn't the same as pure capsaicin, which, at 16 million Scovilles, is as hot as it gets.) If Barnhart comes across a bowl of soup or a drink that doesn't provide a sufficient jolt, he pulls out the eyedropper and gives it a squirt.

dental pick

stepped on a dental pick and now i have a hole in my foot that keeps bleeding...also hurts to walk