tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post4502199784482509883..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: Fruit juice - the new smokingChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-89513421745811553952012-06-04T12:21:37.612+01:002012-06-04T12:21:37.612+01:00Watering down juice with sparkling water is a wond...Watering down juice with sparkling water is a wonderful way to cut down the calories. It also helps keep hydration levels high (people aren't good at this) and it reduces cost too. <br /><br />That last one is why I do it. Learning to cut your luxuries with cheap diluents is a good way to save money.<br /><br />I just hope such treatments don't end up government mandated. Mandatory dilution of juice is very unlikely to match my preferences the way diluting it myself permits.LizardWizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07053674416392639993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-78761065724118317822012-06-01T06:38:24.282+01:002012-06-01T06:38:24.282+01:00A few years back my weight was soaring. We did a b...A few years back my weight was soaring. We did a break down of what I was eating (and it's worth noting here that I am gluten and lactose intolerant and there wasn't much gf junk food around then--this has since changed). It soon became obvious where the excess calories were. But I didn't give up juice. The solution was to fill the glass maybe a third full and top up with sparkling water. Very tasty, a third of the calories. Now I find pure juice overpoweringly sweet.Farah Mendlesohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951321462450109434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-42090610782476968452012-05-31T13:53:39.813+01:002012-05-31T13:53:39.813+01:00A tin of Heinz baked beans nicely warmed in a pan,...A tin of Heinz baked beans nicely warmed in a pan, a couple of slices of bread and butter (not marge or marge substitute) and lashing of brown sauce - luvverlyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-1842726919089192512012-05-31T08:02:13.496+01:002012-05-31T08:02:13.496+01:00@nisakiman ;))
jay@nisakiman ;))<br /><br />jayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-9694609060095029982012-05-30T23:19:57.312+01:002012-05-30T23:19:57.312+01:00Blimey, Jay, are you aiming to usurp the cheeky ch...Blimey, Jay, are you aiming to usurp the cheeky chappie, our much loved Jamie Oliver? The tip from a stem of basil? Gawd, pass me the tin opener! :)<br /><br />I really don't understand the obsession with sugar, salt, fat, alcohol and smoking. I can't make up my mind whether these people are merely rent-seeking control freaks or whether they actually believe the crap they spout. It's hard to believe there's any altruism driving these pronouncements. But the thing that really staggers me is that the masses believe these harbingers of doom, and follow their advice. In many cases, slavishly.<br /><br />Sometimes I despair of the human race.nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-78136157742982653582012-05-30T19:18:58.725+01:002012-05-30T19:18:58.725+01:00@dearieme - to answer your question, no I haven...@dearieme - to answer your question, no I haven't come across any brands as such but I've discovered the most marvellous recipe which fortuously combines both: you simply take haricot beans (absolutely NOT the tinned variety - too much sugar) soak overnight then boil for two hours; while that's happening (and there's enough time to fit in a session of pilates) you take some fresh tomatoes - but they must be the ones that were plucked from the vine one week before ripening (supermarkets now carry that labelling) and whizz them in the blender, drain the beans and combine them with the tomatoes. For a burst of extra deliciousness, I like to serve with the tip from a stem of basil.<br /><br />It's all good: fibre from the beans (although you've got to tweak the proportions otherwise you trumpet like an elephant; good sugar from the tomatoes (if you get the ones properly plucked) and, of course, basil has numerous virtues.<br /><br />It doesn't taste like Heinz but then it doesn't have the nasties that make Heinz taste like Heinz.<br /><br />JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-75747862493743891752012-05-30T18:35:09.460+01:002012-05-30T18:35:09.460+01:00I cut down on fruit juice four years ago after rea...I cut down on fruit juice four years ago after reading the cartons to see how much sugar was in them. But then I eat a fair bit of fruit and veg anyway. But, by golly, I do miss a particular Polish brand of cherry juice - wonderfully wonderful. Other people are free to chug the stuff if they want, in my view. We can all read the cartons.<br /><br />By the by, can anyone recommend brands of baked beans and tomato soup that taste as good as Heinz's, but have much less sugar?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-33489631175416330272012-05-30T18:21:24.396+01:002012-05-30T18:21:24.396+01:00Finally they've convinced me. No more fruit ju...Finally they've convinced me. No more fruit juice, or any food, they're all poisons! From now on I live on nothing but pure unfiltered cigarettes and straight gin.Steve Kellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-60230151744070752912012-05-30T16:39:01.382+01:002012-05-30T16:39:01.382+01:00"But it has taken us about a decade to truly ..."But it has taken us about a decade to truly understand the role of fruit juice,” he said. “In many countries, soft drink companies have fought hard to replace soft drinks with fruit juice (made by juice companies they bought), but the research has shown fruit juice has the same effect as soft drinks on our health"<br /><br />I'm surprised it took you a decade. Back in 1973, when GCSEs were "O" Levels, we were taught in Biology about the relationship between sucrose and fructose when ingested by humans.<br />JonathanBagleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-35775817186015754362012-05-30T15:11:59.968+01:002012-05-30T15:11:59.968+01:00The illogical conclusion for the food prohibitioni...The illogical conclusion for the food prohibitionists will be Big Gruel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-5002172046594285182012-05-30T14:08:43.906+01:002012-05-30T14:08:43.906+01:00That's nothing.
Music is evil. It can make you...That's nothing.<br />Music is evil. It can make you melancholic or inappropriately merry. People who spend too much time listening to music tend to be kind of absent, and that has an impact on their productivity. That must cost a lot to the economy. Not to mention people who actually make music, those sickos.<br />The effect of music on the brain hasn't been clinically tested, and there is no evidence that music is completely safe or that it can't favour schizophrenia or other sorts of mental pathology.<br />With all that, Big Music keeps on marketting music to underage people as if there was no risk involved (which hasn't been clinically tested). Marketting methods are quite sneaky and involve things like playing music.<br />That makes me sick.Jeannoreply@blogger.com