I got my test results from my annual health test.
I don't lack Vitamin D but have a serious iron deficiency :shamefulcry:
I have to change my diet a little and take supplements.
On the bright side, everything else is fine and I am in good shape :victory:
EstherM wrote:I got my test results from my annual health test.
I don't lack Vitamin D but have a serious iron deficiency :shamefulcry:
I have to change my diet a little and take supplements.
On the bright side, everything else is fine and I am in good shape :victory:
That's not bad...you can remedy to an iron deficiency pretty easily. Sounds like you're doing well. :)
At a movie theater, a lot of the stuff you carry away from the concession counter is a horror show in its own right. And it comes with a sequel: When you debut in your bathing suit this summer, everyone will know what you did last night at the movies \ you overate, so now you overflow.
Not that I blame you, of course. I've been there, too. Engrossed by the big screen, too many of us fall victim to giant soda cups, popcorn buckets, and candy boxes, which are sneakily designed to keep the munchfest moving swiftly for the duration of the film.
One Cornell study showed just how thoughtless it can be. Researchers gave patrons different-sized popcorn buckets, and those with large buckets ate nearly twice as much as those with medium buckets. And get this: In some of the buckets, researchers traded out the fresh-popped corn for two-week-old kernels! Those moviegoers munched away so absentmindedly that they put away 34 percent more stale popcorn than those with medium buckets of fresh corn!
So before you plunk down your hard-earned cash for The Incredible Hulk, consider how you may come to resemble him if you mess up a lot at the concession stand. Here's where the real danger lies:
Large Popcorn
1,283 calories
78 g fat (49 g saturated)
1,850 mg sodium
Yes, yes, itfs the custom; everyone at the theatre is eating popcorn. In fact, each American consumes more than 200 cups of popcorn a year, and itfs no surprise considering a movie theatrefs large bucket is 20 cups in itself! But snub the butter soak and youfll save yourself from two-and-a-half dayfs worth of saturated fat.
Large Nachos with Cheese (40 chips, 4 oz.)
1,101 calories
59 g fat (18.5 g saturated)
1,580 mg sodium
This movie-time snack has more calories than two large orders of McDonaldfs French fries. In fact, youfd still be saving fat and calories if you smuggled in two Quarter Pounders with Cheese instead!
Snickers Popables (5 oz., 46 pieces)
692 calories
33 g fat (14.6 g saturated)
73 g sugars
The name's cute, but think about this: your chewy-nougat body in a bathing suit. The Snickers will be following you in two ways. The combined fat-load of these little popables is equal to two-and-a-half full-sized Snickers bars. So even if you split the bag, youfd still do better to down a real candy bar.
Whoppers (5 oz. box)
676 calories
24 g fat (20.3 g saturated)
88 g sugars
How many malt balls does it take to run up a dayfs worth of saturated fat? About 70, the number in a theatre-sized box of Whoppers. This candy's a long-standing classic, but so are fat-guy comedians. You want to join that jowly double bill?
44 oz. Cherry Coke
572 calories
0 g fat
154 g sugars
The theater owners say it's all about convenience: They give you the super large size cup, so you won't have to come back if you want seconds. Oh, and they can charge you twice as much up front while they're at it.
Thatfs why movie-theatre cups (and everything else in the theatre) have grown to such mammoth proportions. This beverage, for instance, has 50 percent more calories than a half-pound of ground beef, and every bit of it comes from \yikes! \ high fructose corn syrup. (For other drinks that will lay waste to your waistline, check out this eye-popping report on America's worst drinks!)
Large Soft Pretzel with 3 oz. Nacho Cheese
643 calories
14.5 g fat (3 g saturated, 4 g trans)
3,068 mg sodium
The pretzel weighs in at 5 ounces, and it holds nearly 100 calories in each ounce of soft bread. Top it with a massive load of warm, trans-fatty cheese sauce, and youfve got the plot of a disease-of-the-week movie.
This "snack" packs more calories than a proper dinner, and well over a dayfs worth of sodium. If you buy one of these salty dogs, don't eat it: Just throw it over your shoulder for good luck.
bmwracer wrote:6 Worst Things to Eat at the Movies
The name's cute, but think about this: your chewy-nougat body in a bathing suit.
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If you buy one of these salty dogs, don't eat it: Just throw it over your shoulder for good luck.
:hehe:
They should serve cup ramen during movies...so people can shut up and slurp.
I don't get that list at all. I guess people don't sneak their own food into the theaters anymore?? :shakehead: :beaten:
I point blank refuse to buy movie theatre food. Not only do they charge double what you'd pay anywhere else, their "small" serves of popcorn, drinks etc is more like "giant", and you get charged accordingly. :usuck: Nobody is going to tell me I can't take my own drink into a theatre!
bmwracer wrote:
Without my ex and her purse, it's pretty hard to sneak in cookies, chips, and other stuff.... :sweat:
My son has a lined jacket he wears: The pockets have holes in them, and anything you put into them will go between the lining and the outside. You can fit food and drink for a whole family in there ;)
Anime Dad wrote:My son has a lined jacket he wears: The pockets have holes in them, and anything you put into them will go between the lining and the outside. You can fit food and drink for a whole family in there ;)
bmwracer wrote:
That'll be interesting to see: walking into a theater with a lined jacket when it's 100+F outdoors.
Yeah, no one will notice. :beaten:
Details, details ;)
Doesn't stop me anyway, I just walk in carrying my food. They only really complain about hot food, but I never eat hot food anyway. They tried to stop me taking in a small plastic bottle of soft drink once, until I pointed out they sold bottled water there and couldn't use the "no bottles" excuse. :nut:
Doesn't stop me anyway, I just walk in carrying my food. They only really complain about hot food, but I never eat hot food anyway. They tried to stop me taking in a small plastic bottle of soft drink once, until I pointed out they sold bottled water there and couldn't use the "no bottles" excuse. :nut:
LOL, good one. :victory:
Just don't try sneaking in a latte. *Seinfeld reference*
The next time you're offered a choice between Earl Grey and green tea, you might want to go green.
A new study shows that the beverage, which is more popular in Eastern cultures, can protect heart arteries by keeping them flexible and relaxed, and therefore better able to withstand the ups and downs of constant changes in blood pressure. Led by Dr. Nikolaos Alexopoulos of Athens Medical School in Greece, the researchers found that among 14 subjects, those who drank green tea showed greater dilation of their heart arteries on ultrasound 30 min. later than those drinking either diluted caffeine or hot water. That's because, the scientists speculate, green tea works on the lining of blood vessels, helping cells there to secrete the substances needed to relax the vessels and allow blood to flow more freely. It's the flavonoids in the tea, which work as antioxidants and help prevent inflammation in body tissue, that keep the vessels pliable. These substances may also protect against the formation of clots, which are the primary cause of heart attacks. "We found very promptly [that] after drinking green tea, there was a protective effect on the endothelium," says Dr. Charalambos Vlachopoulos, a cardiologist and one of the authors of the study.
All it took, says Vlachopoulos, was 6 g of green tea, which amounts to 3 to 4 cups. To make sure the dilation effect was not due to the small amounts of caffeine found in green tea, the group compared the arterial sizes in the green-tea drinkers with those consuming a diluted caffeine beverage and found no change in arterial size in the caffeine drinkers. Even more intriguing, the beneficial effect seems to be long-lasting and cumulative. When the doctors measured the green-tea drinkers' arteries two weeks after daily consumption of the beverage, they found that their vessels were more dilated than they had been at the beginning of the study. "It's something that needs to be investigated, but we think that if someone takes green tea for one or two months, the beneficial effect will be even greater," says Vlachopoulos.
But experts caution that one study isn't enough to catapult green tea to wonder-drink status. Dr. Robert Eckel, a professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, and past president of the American Heart Association, notes that endothelial function is affected by a number of factors, including large doses of vitamins E and C. "Green-tea consumption may have beneficial effects on the arteries, but we should stop short of translating that into a recommendation that everybody should be drinking green tea because it's been proven to reduce heart attacks and strokes," he says. He acknowledges, however, that early studies hint that green tea may be a good addition to a heart-healthy diet. The American Heart Association does not yet include the beverage in its dietary recommendations, but more studies like this one may change that. In the meantime, if you're drinking tea, it might not be such a bad idea to go green.
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