I find this highly amusing.
Wrap your brain around this: in 1822, we ate the amount of added sugar in one 12 ounce can of soda every five days, while today we eat that much sugar every seven hours.
…and the coup de grâce!
And using math, I can peer into the future. If current trends continue, by 2606 the US diet will be 100 percent sugar!
(via shawp)
Source: shawdanger
Let’s see how long I keep up with this. I have no real New Year’s Resolution, but this could be interesting to track my year.
Interesting combination: one of my old professors in the Nuke Department indicted for ripping off where I now work (NASA).
..and to think I thought the cheating issues were a big deal.
A new study, which assessed the health of more than 27,000 beach-goers over 4 years, found individuals who played in the sand had a greater risk of diarrhea and gastrointestinal illness than those who stuck to their towels.
Disgustingly enough, the researchers theorize that sickened sand-handlers get small amounts of fecal matter from the sand on their hands, which then makes its way into their mouths.
