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ALMANAC 1992, by Jeff Napier & Another Company
FACTS ABOUT FOOD
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One day in Poland, a brewery developed a plumbing problem in
which the beer was accidentally pumped into the incoming
water supply. The result: Residents of the town got free
beer on tap at their kitchen sinks, bathrooms and garden
faucets.
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Rubbing orange peels or lemon peels on yourself makes a good
mosquito repellent.
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Velma Anstadt won a science fair when she made protein-rich
earthworm cookies.
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Pepsico also owns the Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and
Taco Bell chains.
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Of all the land on earth, 7.6% is being farmed. 21% could be
farmed.
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Michel Lotito has eaten 7 tv sets.
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Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. In fact,
for one minor ailment, sugar is the medicine. According to
one doctor who set up carefully controlled laboratory tests,
swallowing a teaspoonful of dry sugar is the best way to stop
hiccups. Note: In the case of many other ailments, sugar is
the cause.
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Robert Hopkirk eats 72 raw eggs a week. That's all.
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Safeway, the grocery store chain, owns over 22 miles of
bumper to bumper tractor-trailers.
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Even though our bodies each contain more parasites than
the total number of people on earth, if you put them all
together, they would only fill a drinking glass.
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2 out of every 100 Americans are farmers or ranchers. The
other 98 out of a hundred eat their products.
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It appears that the trend of giant farming will continue,
where fewer and fewer farmers will produce greater and
greater volumes of food on larger and larger farms.
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40% of Americans want to eat less salt.
Lemon drops can act as a salt substitute. If you like
salt on your steak, but know you shouldn't eat so much salt,
put a few drops of lemon juice on the steak and enjoy the
taste.
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The average American eats 20 to 30 times as much salt as is
required for good health.
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82% of children list pizza as their favorite food.
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The average American family spends $411.52 per year on pizza.
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Less than 1/3 of the meals eaten in America are served to the
whole family at once.
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Half of all kids under age 12 cook at least one meal per
week.
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One-third of the items bought at grocery stores are not food.
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Four years ago, 17% of Americans knew what their cholesterol
level was. Three years ago, 32% knew the figure.
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All the information in this database is reliably calculated
from or based on what others have written. However, you may
wish to conduct your own research to make absolutely sure of
the facts.
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A collector in Newton, Iowa, Bob Schippers, has 1,228 lunch
boxes.
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An American spends less for food than a person anywhere else
in the world. 12% of our total income goes for food.
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When rats were fed only 60% of the food they would eat if
they could, they lived 40% longer than normal.
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If you took all the Lifesavers (the candy) made in one year
and put them together, side by side, to form a tube, your
tube of Lifesavers would more than circle the earth at the
equator. It would be 35,000 miles long. Driving along at 55
miles per hour for 24 hours a day, it would take you over 26
days to get from the beginning to the end of all those
Lifesavers.
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Here's a puzzle for you: What do you call the long thin
things on the end of a fork? Can't remember? You'll find out
in a minute.
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A study has discovered that people tend to eat 44% more
calories when they dine with friends than when they eat
alone.
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Charles Manson and Hitler were both vegetarians.
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A survey was conducted in which shoppers were asked what
concerned them most about shopping. Their overwhelming
reply: "Long waits in line at the check-out counter."
Retailers, take note.
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Wetco sells glacial ice to Japanese consumers. It has a
bluish tint and pops and cracks as it melts. The
tint is simply the refraction of light in ice denser than
homemade ice cubes. The noises are from 10,000 year old
pockets of air being released. This sound is referred to as
"The whisper of the ages." Price: approximately $3 per pound.
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For years milk has been prescribed for ulcers, but recent
research finds that milk actually aggravates ulcers.
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The things on the end of a fork are called tangs. If you
guessed tines, you were right, too.
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There is more alcohol in mouthwash than in wine.
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In the past 4 years sales from vending machines in America
has risen by 7 billion dollars to $24.5 billion annually.
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In the early 1970's, when Americans were in the worst
nutritional position we have ever been in, 90% of women age
10 to 54 were deficient in iron. In cases severe enough to
manifest symptoms, tiredness and listlessness would be
common. Since that time, the picture has become somewhat
better, due to increased nutritional awareness.
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So you eat a bowl of salad everyday, and you think this is
helping you get all the vitamins you need. In the 1800's
this would have been true, but latest evidence indicates that
the vegetables grown on modern industrial farms have less
nutritional value. They are carefully fertilized to the
minimum amount necessary to grow and look good. The land has
long been depleted of important trace elements.
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The average American eats 16.5 pounds of french fries a year,
totaling 2 million tons. This would fill 50,000 of the
biggest tractor trailers, and it would clog even more heart
arteries.
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There is one vending machine for every 55 Americans.
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Coming soon: Vending machines that bake and serve a pizza in
55 seconds.
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Microwave ovens were originally designed for vending
machines.
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There is a new water purifier on the market built into a
drinking straw.
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Some scientists are interested in researching the possibility
of natural food packaging. An apple, for instance, is
naturally packaged in its own skin. Some ideas for synthetic
natural packaging would be rice or pasta wrapped in an edible
material that melts in boiled water, cereal boxes replaced
with sacks or balls of the cereal itself. You could remove
and compost the outer covering, and eat the material within.
These concepts would greatly reduce the amount of garbage
generated from food packaging. If you need labels, the ink
could be made from vegetable dyes which are edible.
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There is evidence that plain old hamburgers reduce your
susceptibility to skin and stomach cancer. The actual
effective ingredient is an oil in ground beef called linoleic
acid. However, the rest of the stuff in hamburgers may be bad
for your health. When you heat cooking oil to over 400
degrees and reuse it for a long time, the chemicals in it
change. Research indicates that the oil used by many
fast-food establishments for frying hamburgers and other
foods such as french fries is often quite carcinogenic.
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Food of the future: Therapeutic eggs! Perhaps geneticists and
other scientists will raise special chickens. Some will be
specially bred or altered to lay eggs with differing chemical
compositions. Other chickens will be given a special diet. In
the end, many things that could ail you, may be cured by
eating these special eggs. Some general purpose eggs, for
instance antibiotic eggs, you'll be able to get from your
local grocery store. Prescription eggs will most likely have
to be purchased from a farmacy.
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Coming soon in Japan: Vending machines that sell steak.
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A person drinks about 11,000 gallons of liquid in a lifetime,
approximately 1/3 the amount of water in a built-in swimming
pool.
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In the early part of this century, Fletcherism was popular.
It was an inexpensive diet of milk, potatoes, cereals and
maple sugar, among other things. What was most unusual about
it, however, was that you were supposed to chew each bite of
food for a very long time before swallowing. Furthermore,
you were to swish milk and other liquids around in your mouth
for at least 15 seconds before swallowing. The leader of
this fad, Horace Fletcher, was quite healthy. In 1899, when
he was 50 years old, he could outperform athletes less that
half his age. For instance, he could ride a bicycle 200 miles
in a single day. And not a sleek 10-speed bike, but the
machine of the day, a single-speed machine.
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In Japan, the best beef costs around $80 per pound.
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chapter end.