No, you can’t write off your Starbucks tab as a medical expense
If you absolutely must, must, MUST have that slab of coffee cake, or slice of pecan pie, or bear claw the size of, well, a bear claw, at least wash it down with a good strong cup of coffee. Or two. Or three. Researchers at the University of Sydney have pored over a raft of studies involving almost a half million people, and found that for every cup of java you consume, your risk of developing type 2 diabetes falls by 7 percent.
Knock back three to four cups a day, and you’re fully 25 percent less likely to be hit with type 2 than non- or one-cup drinkers.
Given that diabetes is a fearfully common result of way too many cakes, pies and the like, a coffee-with-all-baked-goods rule is worth considering. Incidentally, it’s not the caffeine. People who drank more than three cups of decaf daily were one-third less likely to suffer type 2, while those who drank more than three cups of tea cut their risk by 20 percent. Say, how about a refill?
Come to think of it, Willie Nelson could probably eat more Doritos than any human alive
We’ve been pretty vocal here in the past about our poor opinion of eating contests, and how counterproductive they are in a society besieged by excess weight problems. So we are amused whenever the eating competition concept makes a fool of itself, and it seems to have done so again.
In this case, the annual World Pie Eating Championships held in Greater Manchester, England, will this year feature random drug tests
It seems that, according to the president of the competition, contenders have been using “questionable concoctions” in order to have a “lubricative advantage” in getting the pies to slide down the hatch. Think of it as greasing the chute, so to speak. It also seems that one fluid in particular, Bisto cough syrup, can cut the time it takes to down a regulation championship pie by two full seconds. Really, they ran tests. So they’ll be frisking all the participants for cough medicine. Personally, our money goes to whichever entrant took a few hits of Maui Wowee enroute to the contest. If ever there was a drug conducive to serious, world class eating, we all know what it is. (By Robert S. Wieder for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News) From the RSS feed of CalorieLab News (REF3076322B7)