If you love the appearance of getting hammered and are too classy to hold 'near' beer - or, oddly, you enjoy the taste of whisky but don't like getting hammered - there is good news; the world's first alcohol-free, whisky-flavored drink.ArKay has the appearance, smell and taste of traditional whisky they say, but no alcohol, no calories and no sugar - they claim you will enjoy it straight...
read moreIt’s easy to blame insurance companies, or greedy hospitals, or greedy doctors for the increase in health care costs – but few blame the courts. And there is a lot of blame to lay. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the runaway leader in America for being overturned by the Supreme Court. If there is a goofy position, they will adopt it. Add that to the notion that people...
read moreWhat causes obesity? Obviously ingesting more calories than a person burns leads to weight gain but what really causes obesity?Will banning Big Gulps, Happy Meals and Trans fats make people thin? (1)While a modern 'ban, legislate and micromanage' mentality about food has taken hold on the coasts of the US, obesity researchers in the middle, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine,...
read moreIn an era where social authoritarianism, with more laws, paying to have special stickers, and more regulation of food are all the rage, some towns are going the opposite way and passing ordinances exempting farmers from state and federal regulations - if they sell their products directly to consumers.Illegal? You betcha. The one thing government does not like, and the bigger the...
read moreThe Environmental Working Group's annual "Dirty Dozen" report for 2012 has named the fruits and vegetables ranking highest in pesticide residue. Don't get all excited about shopping at Whole Foods to escape the problem, organic food has all kinds of pesticides, they are just 'natural', like strychnine, and the Environmental Working Group did not run any tests of their own, they did a review of...
read moreSometimes you set out to test for antibiotics but get a bonus; in this case, diphenhydramine, arsenic, and fluoxetine.Yikes. read...
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