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Sunday, August 20, 2006

200.2

So I've given up modified corn products and I feel pretty-good. As a side bonus I've dropped from 208.6 lbs to 200.2 lbs as of this morning. What's nifty is that I'm not suffering. Corn syrup is one of those mysterious things. It makes crappy food addictive. It's a strange thing to be sitting in a drive through cue thinking about how none of the food sounds good, I'm not even hungry. Yet my plan is to get the biggest burger as an upsized meal, and a milk shake. But who cares!?

What's important is that I'm almost under 200 pounds. I think my peak was in the mid-220's. To my recollection this would be the first time since the year 2000.

In that year I got a sinus infection that, of course, I didn't get treatment for. Western Medicine is for whinny wussies and all that. The infection spread to my lungs. Bummer. But I was pretty well committed to my strategy of no treatment. So for three weeks I ate almost nothing, slept for 18 hours a day and occasionally limped over to campus to take quizzes. When I was up and about I was a bit weaker but I was also beautiful. And that's what's really important, yes?

As a sidebar: The college I was attending, UC Santa Barbara, has the highest rate of male eating disorders.

I promptly resumed my 75% Jack-In-The-Box diet.

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# posted by Max : 8/20/2006 09:11:00 AM 0 comments

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Corn Bad

I've decided I'm against corn. To much food comes from corn; corn syrup, corn oil, corn starch and all modified, partially-hydrogenated, high fructose variants. Also remember that your chicken was probably feed a corn mixture, as well as your feed-lotted cattle. So if i had to guess 70% of what's in the supermarket has corn in it.

Cob Corn... MMM Tasty. especially on the BBQ next a tri-tip; and then all messy with butter. I digress.

The other corn isn't probably all that good for you. Humans need something like 40 nutrients. Only a few can be found in corn. We need a wide variety of food sources. With so much food being from corn I don't think we are getting it. Further, dependence on a single food source really sucks when a crop disease springs up.

All this extra corn is processed corn. I think manufacturers choose it because its cheap filler. I think it's cheep because its heavily subsidized. So in a sense our tax dollars are being used to promote corn over other food stuffs. Are you as excited as I am about that possibility?

And then there is ethanol. Which is a whole post by it's self.

Amuse yourself with this experiment. Don't eat anything with corn, corn syrup, corn starch, corn oil, corn feed meat, dairy from corn feed livestock, or any other corn product for a week. I bet you'll eat something corn by accident.

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# posted by Max : 6/15/2006 11:41:00 AM 3 comments

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