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2721. Magoseph - 3/8/2005 12:51:13 AM By the way, Jen, how do you feel this time around? 2722. Jenerator - 3/8/2005 12:53:05 AM Mago,
I am the type of person who cannot snack. I can't just have little bowls of candy sitting around, I'll eat it all.
2723. thoughtful - 3/8/2005 3:20:38 PM I like the flavored seltzer waters...lemon lime, cran-raspberry, blackberry and so on. The vast majority of my fluid intake is plain water so I enjoy the variety of flavored seltzers now and again.
I never realized how lucky i was to be raised on and still live with well water. Our neighbors changed to city water. We had the pump in the well changed so weren't allowed to drink our water for a few days and begged some off of them. It tasted like dilute bleach. It was awful. And it made all the food taste awful too, especially coffee and tea.
Our well water is hard but has a fine taste. We had it tested and they found nothing harmful and only a high level of manganese in it. Not sure what that does or doesn't do for you, but there it is. 2724. thoughtful - 3/8/2005 3:29:56 PM I get the nutrition action letter and they always have interesting articles in them. One was about dementia and alzheimers and what the latest studies say about prevention. Another was a review of, I guess you'd call them pub-type chain restaurants, like TGI Friday's and Ruby Tuesday. They had some best choices listed off the menu but had a close up on Ruby Tuesday as they actually publish nutritional info for their meals. I was aghast! One entree has 1,600 calories!!!! Most women who diet eat only 1,200 in an entire day. And imagine having that after their 1,100 calorie appetizer! And how can you not wrap up with the 1,000 calorie brownie sundae! I get nauseous just thinking about it. Obesity in america is not a mystery.
My hubby said how on earth can you jam so many calories into one entree. I said, think fat and portion size. If I eat at one of those joints, I typically bring home a doggie bag from which I get 2 more meals. 1,600/3 = reasonable portions.
Obese American passengers break the seats on the Queen Mary II
Dozens of seats on the Queen Mary II, the world's biggest, newest and most luxurious cruise liner, are being broken under the weight of obese passengers. The Telegraph has learned that the French company which supplied the chairs, both fixed and free-standing, claims that it is repairing and replacing them as fast as possible, as they creak and buckle under larger holidaymakers....
There are some things that need to be changed or replaced," he said. "For instance, there are some problems with the chairs because some of our passengers are heavier than we imagined."
The spokesman claimed that the problem seemed to be mainly obese American, rather than British, passengers. "It's not an English problem; it's probably more American," he said.
2725. arkymalarky - 3/9/2005 12:34:06 AM Thoughtful, you are so right about well water, when it's drinkable. Ours is great, and it's pretty soft water, too. We were on city water, and not only did it cost $50 a month, running a bath felt like bathing in a swimming pool. We got back on well water, and our only problem is that we need to get a generator for extended periods without electricity. 2726. judithathome - 3/9/2005 12:39:05 AM My hair always does great when I wash it at Arky's! ;-) 2727. arkymalarky - 3/9/2005 12:45:28 AM Hey, that's what you can take home in the truck--lots of jugs of water! 2728. judithathome - 3/9/2005 12:59:42 AM Great idea!! Remember when I wanted to do that, the first time we came up there! 2729. arkymalarky - 3/9/2005 1:01:16 AM Yes, and I've thought about it since, but never when y'all are here. 2730. alistairconnor - 3/9/2005 11:31:52 AM We have the best of both worlds : municipal supply which actually comes from local wells, and in general is completely untreated and delicious.
The water is soft, which is nice but has the side-effect of copper stains in toilets etc -- because of the natural acidity of soft water which dissolves the pipes from the inside. I can live with that. Also, the water from the taps upstairs has a coppery taste that some people find unpleasant. The water from the kitchen is fine, because the pipes are plastic up to that point.
2731. Macnas - 3/9/2005 12:12:21 PM Our water is vile town mains, I take it in coffee and that is all. 2732. alistairconnor - 3/9/2005 12:18:19 PM Town water doesn't even make decent ice cubes. Leaves crystals in the whisky.
Of course, real men don't take ice with their whisky... 2733. Macnas - 3/9/2005 12:21:39 PM No, they take more whiskey. 2734. Magoseph - 3/9/2005 1:05:25 PM We buy our drinking water here--tap water has a funny taste. 2735. PelleNilsson - 3/9/2005 3:15:44 PM The tap water here in Stockholm is very fine coming from a lake. In Gothenburg, where I grew up, it is vile, coming from sources that make hevy chlorinization necessary. 2736. Macnas - 3/9/2005 3:18:21 PM That is the problem here, the chlorine content is way too high for my liking.
In my home place, where we have our own well, the water was and is very potable. 2737. thoughtful - 3/9/2005 4:39:43 PM A fellow i know used to work at a plant that was very heavily regulated by the epa. They literally could not take in city water and release it as it was. Their requirements were so tough that they had to make the water cleaner than what the city input. Makes me wonder what all is in there anyway.
However, the alternative is not good. We are so fortunate that unlike other antibiotics, chlorine has retained its germ-killing ability. So much of the world is so desperately in need of potable water. I guess we should be happy for what we got.
I did see on a tv show that they have now invented a machine that will make drinking water out of humidity in the air...it condenses and filters it and provides sufficient water for a family. Of course the higher the humidity, the more water you get. 2738. arkymalarky - 3/10/2005 1:06:01 AM My dehumidifier fills up daily in spring and summer because the air is so humid, and we water plants with it. It looks clear and it seems it wouldn't take much to develop some sort of system that dehumidifies on a larger scale and makes the water drinkable. They use a lot of energy, though. 2739. arkymalarky - 3/10/2005 1:06:55 AM We get a bit of the copper effect, Alistair. I assumed it was from the water rather than the pipes, but I don't know how much of our plumbing is metal and how much is plastic. 2740. alistairconnor - 3/10/2005 1:48:04 PM If you've got soft well water in your pipes, Arky, then it's dissolving copper out of your pipes.
Water, in its pure state, is naturally acidic, because of dissolved carbon dioxide, which becomes carbonic acid (HCO3-).
Generally, town-supply water (and a lot of ground water) is full of calcium carbonate in solution -- that's the "hard" stuff -- which neutralises the acidity. In fact, I've been told that they often add calcium carbonate to town supply water which is deemed too soft : both to neutralise the acidity, and because it tends to reduce leakage in the distribution system, by bunging up the leaks.
Either that, or it's a conspiracy of washing-powder manufacturers.
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