When you smile at the end of a story, it s a good story. this would go down well in a local paper.
Regards, Mike Payne On 26/03/2011, at 17:32 , Tim Williamson wrote: > Zero Grams of Trans Fat > 26 March 2011 > > A 'hot off the stove' Original Glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut has zero grams of > trans fat. It says so right on the front of the box of twelve I carried out > of the store that day. Zero grams, that's 0 g, of trans fat! It's sooo good > it melts in your mouth. You feel like you have a new lease on life, you're so > full of instant energy. You move faster. You're heart beats quicker. You've > got that spark you didn't have before you took that first bite. You feel > renewed. Wow! That was a good doughnut. > > It's a guilty pleasure though, because by the time you've finished the first > one, you want another, and another. You know you shouldn't. Each one has ten > grams (10 g) of sugar. With a total mass of forty nine grams (49 g), this > delicious treat has about one fifth of its' mass in sugar. No wonder my body > was screaming on a sugar high after the first bite. (Nutritional data from > http://www.krispykreme.com/about-us/nutritional-information ) > > When you go from being calm and mellow, to wild-eyed, high energy action in a > matter of seconds, you know you're onto something. I could feel my heart > racing. I knew my blood pressure was up, and it wasn't because of the ninety > milligrams (90 mg) of sodium either . This thing was good. My blood pressure > is normally 125/75, and for those of you who must know, the units used for > blood pressure are mmHg, that's millimeters of mercury. Just guessing, but it > felt like my blood pressure went up by ten or fifteen mmHg after the second > doughnut. > > Each of 'My' doughnuts had eleven grams (11 g) of total fat, and five grams > (5 g) of saturated fat. Ordinarily that wouldn't be too bad, but in this case > eleven grams is about one fifth of the total mass of a single doughnut. So > between sugar and total fat we have about two out of five of the mass of all > the ingredients in sugar and fats. That is bad, no...good. Anyway.... > > If you're watching your blood sugar, one of these doughnuts will send that > count over the top quickly. Normally, your blood glucose should be between 90 > to 130 mg/dL – that's milligrams per deciliter- on your blood glucose monitor > - but watch it race up after eating just one of these doughnuts. Some of you > may be familiar with the 5 to 7.2 mmol/L range given for your blood sugar – > that's millimoles per liter. (Blood pressure & blood glucose data from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sugar ) > > Maybe I should just take vitamins instead. A 1000 mg tablet of vitamin C once > a day would be better for me than all those grams of sugar and fats. > > There is another major problem with too many of these doughnuts, especially > if you're watching your weight. Just one has twenty one grams (21 g) of > carbohydrates. Yes! Carbohydrates provide energy for your brain and nervous > system, but too much will make you fat. And by the time you include a two > liter (2 L) bottle of your favorite soft drink..., well you can see where > that leads. > > New tires on the car. More padding under your hardwood floor. Too many > carbohydrates. If you eat too many of these doughnuts, you may need to go > from 203/65R14 size tire to a 225/50R14 for a wider tire by twenty two > millimeters (22 mm). The 14 is the rim size in inches. I suppose it's like > every thing you see at your supermarket. - such as NET WT 28 g (1 oz) – the > dual units on the labels. You may also need to add additional padding under > your laminate flooring. The flooring comes in various sizes such as 51 inches > long by 8 inches wide and 8 mm thick. Yes! Eight millimeters is listed in the > description on the Lowes.com website. > > Those doughnuts caused a lot of problems. Maybe I should stay away from them, > but after all the cascading thoughts and mental gymnastics you at least found > out that you know more metric units of measurement than you've been told, or > that you believed. Metric is everywhere....oh well, we, and you, will be > alright. A metric America is here to stay. Besides, metric is the foundation > of everything to do with science, medicine, technology, nutrition, trade and > commerce. Might as well get used to it. Man! Those doughnuts were good. > > Tim Williamson, Brookwood, Alabama, [email protected] 1-205-765-6090 > > > > -- > > > Thanks! > > Tim Williamson > Alabama, USA > 1-205-765-6090 >
