Mindconnection eNL, 2008-03-02

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5. Security tip
6. Health tip/Fitness tip
7. Miscellany
8. Thought for the day

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Smuckers has a peanut butter labeled "Natural." And, it really is natural. It's just peanuts and salt. Open the jar, and the healthful peanut oil has separated and risen to the top. If you want creamy peanut butter, you have to stir it. But it's natural, nutritious, and delicious.

Skippy also has a peanut butter labeled "Natural." However, it is not natural. According to the ingredients label, it contains sugar and palm oil. Open the jar, and the apparently hydrogenated oil combines with the sugar to make a monolithic lump of spreadable junk. If you care about your health, you will toss it in the trash uneaten.

Upon discovering you've been duped this way, you might feel it would be a waste of money to discard this disgusting product. No, it was a waste of money to buy it. Eating it merely wastes more money by degrading your health.

Because some companies have no scruples about the big fancy labels on the front of their packaging, always read the small plain labels on the back of their packaging. Do that before you spend your money, not after.

Yes, I'm sure the Skippy people will be very unhappy I wrote this. Note to the Skippy people: Ask yourselves why the Smucker's people are grinning ear to ear about now. You had the same opportunity.

Note to the Skippy lawyers: rather than send me threatening letters, tell your client to clean up their act. I'm not the one selling things with deceptive labeling. And, consider that I'm also not the one infringing on Smuckers' labeling.

If someone runs your pseudonym through a database, they'll have information on your pseudonym but not on you. You can safely toss any junk mail that comes addressed to your pseudonym. And if someone phones and asks to speak to your pseudonym, you can simply hang up.

Note: Do not get any ideas about doing this with your tax forms. Those are personal mail. And if you mess up there, things can get very ugly very fast.

Here's a case in point. An elderly man who is more than 100 lbs too fat was hospitalized, due to complications of obesity. Shortly after being discharged, he complained about feeling weak. So, his doctor told him to drink Boost. This is like telling an alcoholic to drink a 6-pack of beer three times a day, or an asthmatic to buy Camel lung busters.

One can of this crap contains 25 grams of sugar. That's more sugar than I consume in an entire year. Making matters worse, the second most common type of sugar in this beverage is exactly the kind you absolutely, positively do not eat unless you are on a mission to destroy your body. That is, of course, corn syrup solids. Listed ahead of it on the Boost ingredients label is ordinary table sugar, which isn't known as a health food either.

Dentists will tell you that drinking dissolved sugar is one of the worst things you can do to your teeth (crunching ice cubes is the other worst thing). This elderly man had also recently completed very expensive dental work. Why on earth was he drinking Boost? Maybe he thinks the dental assistant is cute or he loves the feeling of that drill going in? No, he was doing this to himself because his doctor told him to. Can you say malpractice?

Further, we are talking about the Boost Protein product, which contains 15 grams of protein. Oh, whoopee. A fairly active adult male would need to consume 10 cans of this beverage to get his daily protein allowance. To put the 15 grams in perspective, you get 16 grams in two cups of ordinary cow's milk.

The doctor's "reason" for recommending this "Ya'll come back and see us at the hospital, ya hear" beverage to his patient was that it contains vitamins. Well, yeah, if you drink four cans a day you can reach your RDA. That would give you whopping 1,000 calories. Why not take a proper multivitamin that meets your RDA on so few calories that the FDA doesn't require even mentioning the calories?

If someone dropped vitamins into gasoline, would that make it a health beverage? If you think so, then Boost is for you.

Compare the calorie load of Boost for a measly 15 grams of protein to the Oryx supplement described at the top of this eNL. Don't ever drink Boost. There are cheaper ways to wind up in intensive care. If your goal is to be healthy, however, something as toxic as this garbage won't even be on your radar. Unless you listen to your doctor's dietary advice.

1. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you? Even more interesting, Uranus spins sideways. Whatever this says about uranus, we don't want to know. Uranus is your own business.
    

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