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I know that Chipotle burritos are extremely caloric, but I’ve managed to convince myself that the burrito bowl—all the cheese, guac, and juicy beef, but without the tortilla wrapping—is practically a health food.
No need to work out today, I walked up the Metro escalator! And sure, eight drinks a week is technically “heavy drinking” for women, but I’m Russian.
via What 200 Calories of Every Food Looks Like – The Atlantic.
Go to the article for some sample pictures. Â If you dare.
The Dreadful Inconvenience of Salad – The Atlantic.
A start-up will contribute an interesting answer to the million-dollar food-policy question: If healthy food was as easy as junk food, would we eat more of it?
Salad from a vending machine.
Breakfast of Champions: Why New Jersey is Crazy for Pork Roll | Serious Eats.
The best article I’ve ever read about pork roll.
via Craft Beer and Your Health.
Before I continue I admit I’m thinking about beer and it’s only 10:00 am. Â But for years I’ve used my Saturday mornings to catch up on medical and health news. Â Last night The Boss went to The Mall after work so dinner got pushed back. Â By the time The Boss got home it was like “why cook?” so we went out to an Italian place for a quick meal. Â I managed to eat an entire half tray sized piece of lasagna and I started thinking this can’t be good.
I woke up Saturday morning and expected the worst when I approached the bathroom scale. Â Friday I was 190. Â This morning I was…190! Â There was no damage from the half tray of lasagna.
Must be the craft beer.
So with that thought in mind I wondered if craft beer (in absolute moderation of course) could possibly be healthy. Â Click through on the link (yeah, I know the research is self-serving) but I found the article enlightening and there are plenty of legit reference links.
Tonight our tiny town in Oklahoma is having its very first foodie/craft beer/food truck/pop up store/live music street festival.  Roughtail brewery Roughtail Brewing Company | Home. will be serving two of their near beers (3.2 ABV).
I am excited.
via Stroke Rounds: Potassium Tied to Lower Stroke Risk.
Women (mean age 63.6) who consumed the most potassium each day (>3,193.6 mg) had a 12% lower overall risk of all stroke (hazard ratio 0.88, 95% CI 0.79-0.98) and a 16% lower risk of ischemic stroke (HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.74-0.96) when compared with women consuming very little potassium (<1,925.5 mg/day), reported Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and colleagues.
I had a banana with breakfast. Â I’m going to pop a few prunes now.
via Pistachios Improve Metabolic Profile in Prediabetes.
This study was funded by the Western Pistachios Association, now known as American Pistachio Growers (U.S.), and Paramount Farms.
Hmm… Â The diets were isocaloric and matched for protein, fiber, and saturated fatty acids. Â But were the foods identical between the control group and pistachio supplemented group? Â Food preparation methods controlled for? Â Interesting little study nonetheless.
I was at the market the other day and I saw potted plants strategically located throughout the fresh produce section.
Why is the grocery store selling plants? Â Indoors, no less.
I really didn’t give it much more thought until I stumbled across this article in the local paper.
How cool is it to have an organic hydroponic farm in your town?  Read the article and check out the video.
Kind of makes the earthquakes bearable.
Sort of.
$12 juice? Â Sure, I’ll take two.
via How High-End Juices Extract Money From Consumers – NYTimes.com.
An earlier version of this article misstated the average sum of money spent per day by Americans on food, as reported by Gallup. It is $21.57 per day for an American family, not for an individual.
Frozen fish sticks were a staple of my diet in childhood.  After growing up on seasoned breading, tons of ketchup, and imperceptible amounts of non-specific minced white fish I’m surprised I even eat fish at all.   Growing up in New Jersey was one hell of a ride.  Despite wanting to get the hell out of there as soon as I could, NJ still holds many positive memories.  Some of my favorite memories are about going to The Shore.  We didn’t go to the beach or the seashore.  We went to The Shore and where we ended up was defined by which exit on The Parkway.  And for you non-NJ readers I’m talking about the Garden State Parkway.
I didn’t get to The Shore as often as I would have liked. Â But when I did make to Exit 117, then east on Routes 35 and 36, I would always find a local seafood restaurant. Â After grabbing a table (you never got “seated” in the places I liked to visit) the first question was always the same:
What came in this morning?
Simply broiled, a little butter, a little lemon. Â Doesn’t get any better than that.
I just hope I ate enough to have increased my gray matter volumes in the hippocampus, precuneus, posterior cingulate, and orbital frontal cortex.
Postscript
My family vacation every summer was at Exit 4B at the Admiral Motel. Â Another story, another time.
An Insufferable Beer Crisis Hits California | Wolf Street.
The Drought Goes From Bad To Catastrophic | Zero Hedge.
What the West’s Ancient Droughts Say About Its Future.
I have recently joined my son on his World Beer Tour. Â Now we have a beer crisis in Cali.
Life is not fair.
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