Excerpts from Norfolk Daily News (some of these are a little dated):
(1/27) "Sharing modern ideas on growing paleo diet. Dear Dr. Roach: After a few months of stress eating, I have gained a lot of weight. People swear that the Paleo diet would help me lose weight & feel better. Do you recommend it? H.C. (Dr. Roach responds.) Most diets have good & bad points, & work better or worse for different people. The Paleo diet is no exception. The theory behind Paleo is that humans are best adapted to the diet that Paleolithic man ate 10,000 or more years ago, which was high in meat, with relatively large amounts of fruits & vegetables, & no grains or dairy. I disagree with the theory on several points, especially that I think it is a fundamental misunderstanding of adaptation, in that there's no guarantee that evolution produces a 'best' adaptation, merely one that's good enough.
"Paleolithic man ate what he had to to survive, not necessarily what was optimal for his health. The part about the Paleo diet that I do like is its recommendation against highly refined grains & other processed foods. I don't agree with the usual recommendation to eat so much meat. It's important to remember that the meat Paleolithic man ate, until just before being eaten, was busily running away from him & did not have remotely the fat content of today's supermarket meat. The nuts & vegetables available to modern man are vastly different from those available to Paleolithic man, according to a great talk from Christina Warriner. Finally, there is abundant evidence that preagricultural man, from many different societies, had atherosclerosis in the unlikely event he lived into his 40s. [The views contained in Dr. Roach's commentary do NOT necessary represent those of this blogger's. What say you, my nephew Chris?]
(5/29) McDonald's tweaks toasting, searing. McDonald's is tweaking how it cooks its burgers in hopes of winning back customers. To improve the taste of its food, the chain is toasting its buns longer so sandwiches will be warmer . . . (CEO Steve Easterbrook) also said the company is changing the way it sears & grills its beef so that the patties are juicier." [Take that, Burger King! Your move!!]
(6/23) "Doughnut row. Mmm, doughnuts. Volunteers lined up about 24,000 doughnuts--the basic, circular kind--on Friday at a festival in Michigan . . . 'The early estimate was 2 miles, 750 ft,' Hamburg (MI) Enhanced Recreation Organization President Joanna Hardesty said. If verified as accurate, it will eclipse the 1,841 ft, 10" set last year in Germany." [Yet another triumph of American exceptionalism over the EU.]
Excerpts from Omaha World Herald (some of these are a little dated):
(2/23) "Bacon shows it has staying power, bouncing back from lean year. Pizza chain Little Caesars last week unveiled a deep-dish pizza wrapped with more than 3 feet of 'decadent' thick-cut bacon. A day earlier, Starbucks unveiled its own bacon-y surprise: a 540-calorie, double-smoked bacon breakfast sandwich 'sure to satisfy any bacon lover's craving' . . . Yet even after a devastating 2014 for the pork industry--when an epidemic diarrhea virus killed millions of pigs & drove prices to new records--the unstoppable business of bacon retained its place as one of the best-selling meats in America." [We live in the greatest country in the world, but this may explain ISIS' implacable hatred of America.]
(6/11) "African chimps get drunk on palm sap, report says. Chimpanzees in West Africa get soused during long 'drinking sessions in which they dip palm fronds into fermented sap--the first time 'habitual & voluntary consumption' of alcohol has been documented in a species other than humans . . . The report, published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, said the booze the chimps in Guinea drank--the fermented sap of raffia palms--can contain up in 6.9% alcohol, stronger than most beers." [I'm waiting for the first legislation seeking to legalize medical usage of fermented palm sap.]
(7/5) "New hot dog champion ends long reign of 'Jaws'. Matt Stonie shocked the competitive eating world Saturday by upsetting Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut at the 4th of July hot dog-eating contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island . . . Stonie, 23, who finished 2nd last year, downed 62 hot dogs & buns, beating Chestnut by two . . . " (7/9) "Breaking Brad: "Matt 'Megatoad' Stonie upset Joey Chestnut to win the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. When your name is 'Megatoad' you've got no choice but to go into competitive eating. No one wants to be diagnosed by Dr. Megatoad." [Brad Dickson writes humorous quips for the OWH.]
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