OMG I HURT.
Sep. 14th, 2010 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It *must* be my period. I am SO wiped out today - spent all night feeling like I'd just had a tetanus shot all over, today I'm barely keeping conscious and my back hurts (well, that's normal, anyway). OMG. I just feel so out of it.
Anyway, though, I'm awake enough to get these articles onto the journal and close up these tabs, so let's do that!
The corn lobby wants HFCS to be relabeled "corn sugar". I want corn to be less heavily subsidized - and I want a greater variety of foods to have those subsidies instead. The problem really isn't the HFCS (although whether or not "my body can tell", I can tell, corn syrup tastes nasty), it's the fact that, since corn is subsidized up the wazoo, HFCS is used as a cheap filler in everything. In jelly. In applesauce. In "juice" drinks. In pasta sauce. In hot dogs. In crackers. In bread. Most of this stuff doesn't need any sugar whatsoever (and certainly not in the proportion that HFCS has been added!), but it's in there. Why? Because it's cheaper than making real food. And very few people are really willing to commit to making EVERYthing from scratch.
Another article on the difference between static and dynamic stretching.
On the World Memory Championships.
On miniature nuclear reactors. I didn't read this, I'm getting fuzzy.
On 3D illusions in the street to get drivers' attention. I can think of better (safer) things to paint on the street than the image of a kid with a ball. If they're going to do this, it should be in very FEW spots and they should remove it after a short time, possibly putting the image somewhere else.
Gay couples seek immigration rights
Anyway, though, I'm awake enough to get these articles onto the journal and close up these tabs, so let's do that!
The corn lobby wants HFCS to be relabeled "corn sugar". I want corn to be less heavily subsidized - and I want a greater variety of foods to have those subsidies instead. The problem really isn't the HFCS (although whether or not "my body can tell", I can tell, corn syrup tastes nasty), it's the fact that, since corn is subsidized up the wazoo, HFCS is used as a cheap filler in everything. In jelly. In applesauce. In "juice" drinks. In pasta sauce. In hot dogs. In crackers. In bread. Most of this stuff doesn't need any sugar whatsoever (and certainly not in the proportion that HFCS has been added!), but it's in there. Why? Because it's cheaper than making real food. And very few people are really willing to commit to making EVERYthing from scratch.
Another article on the difference between static and dynamic stretching.
On the World Memory Championships.
On miniature nuclear reactors. I didn't read this, I'm getting fuzzy.
On 3D illusions in the street to get drivers' attention. I can think of better (safer) things to paint on the street than the image of a kid with a ball. If they're going to do this, it should be in very FEW spots and they should remove it after a short time, possibly putting the image somewhere else.
Gay couples seek immigration rights
