Breakfast Links: Man eats own finger, Fat, Salt, Sugar v Brain & DoD v NYC
- 2009-04-28
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So, in completely gross news, a Serbian man cut off his own finger and ate it. ATE IT. It was in protest and saving a woman from doing the same thing, but whatever, he cut off his own finger and ate it. That is not right. Is that even cannibalism if it’s yourself you’re eating? auto-cannibalism? Oh NASTY, it is!
Ahem. In other eating news, it turns out that eating a lot of fat, salt and sugar affects your brain and makes you eat more! The former commissioner of the FDA went dumpster diving behind a Chili’s to find the ingredient labels of the stuff they use to prepare their dishes and come away totally disgusted:
The labels showed the foods were bathed in salt, fat and sugars, beyond what a diner might expect by reading the menu, Kessler said. The ingredient list for Southwestern Eggrolls mentioned salt eight different times; sugars showed up five times. The “egg rolls,” which are deep-fried in fat, contain chicken that has been chopped up like meatloaf to give it a “melt in the mouth” quality that also makes it faster to eat. By the time a diner has finished this appetizer, she has consumed 910 calories, 57 grams of fat and 1,960 milligrams of sodium.
And just to drop some science on your hungry ass:
Instead of satisfying hunger, the salt-fat-sugar combination will stimulate that diner’s brain to crave more, Kessler said. For many, the come-on offered by Lay’s Potato Chips — “Betcha can’t eat just one” — is scientifically accurate. And the food industry manipulates this neurological response, designing foods to induce people to eat more than they should or even want, Kessler found.
Man.
Finally, out Department of Defense, always paragons of human understanding, decided that yesterday would be a great time for a photo-op of Air Force One (a 747) and it’s military escort of fighter jets. Unfortunately, they decided to do this by flying very low right by ground zero, without making any public announcments. Panic ensues downtown, buildings were evacuated… unbelievable. The Mayor’s all pissed because he was never informed, despite the claims that the DoD got permission for this. I mean, wth? Good job guys, you’re not Maverick and Goose buzzing the flight tower!
