Cereal, Cereal, Cereal, Cereal, Cereal

Well, this explains a lot.

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Seven Signs of the Foodpocalypse

1. Darth Vader Burgers -- soon available in France and Belgium!

2. Chicken & Waffle Wings -- because how else are you going to eat chicken and waffles in the car?

3. Bacon Soda -- swine plus sugar water equals yum!

4. Mountain Dew -- it dissolves rats!

5. Dulche de Leche Cheerios -- they're "naturally flavored" with caramel!

6. Chocolate Covered Totino's Pizza Rolls -- because why the hell not?

7. SPAM Mints -- for hot dates who love Hormel products.

Not everyone's trying to eat healthier this January, I guess.

Link Dump: Food-That-Will-Kill-You Edition

Food linkage from around the Interwebs:

The Daily Beast presents a gallery of the "20 Unhealthiest Cereals." (As if any of 'em are healthy.)

The most shoplifted food in the world? Cheese.

Rainn Wilson loves Del Taco for a reason.

Speaking of fast food tacos, it's not a good idea to firebomb your local Taco Bell because your Chalupa was insufficiently meaty. (Besides, it's debatable how much of Taco Bell's "meat" is actually meat in the first place.)

Okay -- one more taco-related item: Why the hell would anyone propose marriage with a cake made to look like a packet of Taco Bell hot sauce?

Professor Mark Post is being paid €300,000 to create a hamburger without using any meat from an animal. Instead, he's trying to grow meat in a lab using muscle stem cells. "We want to turn meat production from a farming process to a factory process," he says. Barf.

Dr. William Davis, the author of "Wheat Belly," summarizes his case against triticum aestivum, or modern wheat, on Boing Boing. "Wheat-consuming people are fatter than those who don't eat wheat," he concludes.

But is Davis overstating the case against wheat? Check out what Dr. Emily Deans has to say about "Wheat Belly," and also Chris Masterjohn's detailed review of Davis's book.

Cereal Killers

I love these:

More here.

Link Dump

Time for some random Internet goodness:

• Do not drink an entire bottle of soy sauce. (And not just because soy is terrible for you.)

• The Art of Manliness presents “The Napping Habits of 8 Famous Men.” (In many cases, though, it appears that they “napped” ‘cause they were on the verge of collapse from not getting enough sleep. Sometimes, lack of sleep is unavoidable -- but remember: Sleeplessness is not a sign of virility.)

• American kids think that cartoon mascots make breakfast cereals taste better. In other news, our kids are dumb.

• Speaking of cereal, check out this nostalgia nausea-inducing list of breakfast cereals of the 80s and 90s that will (hopefully) never grace your kitchen table again.

• Snooki wrestled on WWE Raw last night. I know you care.

• Men’s Fitness UK profiles Gym Jones and its new Fundamentals seminar. (Background: Gym Jones’ founder, Mark Twight, was affiliated with CrossFit early on, but moved on to develop an approach that emphasized individualized, sports-specific training. After Gym Jones received widespread attention for training the actors in “300,” CrossFit founder Greg Glassman got upset and claimed that Twight “stole” the CrossFit training program. CrossFit HQ even sent a mole to a Gym Jones seminar. Classy!)

• Gym Jones is also training the next Superman. I’m sure Glassman is steaming.

• The Dutch want you to eat bugs. “Dongen is head of the meat department at Sligro, a kind of Costco on the edge of this trim Dutch town. Besides steaks, poultry and others kinds of meat, he offers mealworms, buffalo worms, locusts and other insects, as well as prepared products containing insects like Bugs Sticks and Bugs Nuggets — not for pets, but as a source of protein for people.”

Finally, let’s just admit that all of this is trivial fluff in light of the unfolding events in Japan. When you have a moment, please donate to the relief efforts if you can. (Click here and here for more information on how you can help.)

"Peepshi" is Japanese for Diabetes

Because Easter is about sugar, corn syrup, gelatin and carnauba wax.


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Breakfast Cereal = Meth in Milk

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A Modern Stone Age Family Indeed

To the outside world, the Flintstones appeared to be enjoying a perfectly Paleo lifestyle. They ate eggs:

And meat:

They moved around a lot:

And lifted heavy things:

But brace yourselves: Mounting evidence suggests that the Flintstones weren't, in fact, as Paleo-compliant as we have been led to believe. Believe ir or not, research indicates that they ingested all sorts of NEOLITHIC AGENTS OF DISEASE!

Consider, for example, this!





And this!

And this!

And this!

And this!

And this!

And this!



Let's hope Captain Caveman was better about hewing closer to an ancestral diet. Otherwise, I swear I'm going to stop watching (as many) Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

Hump Day Link Dump

Enjoy.

• Regis Philbin shirtless: Not even close to being as bad as you think.

• Foxhunting is so 2005. If you want to hang with the cool kids, hunt humans.

• The Captain Morgan workout video isn’t nearly as funny as: (1) it thinks it is, or (2) the actual P90X videos it's parodying.

• Looks like there’s a correlation between Wal-Mart store openings and people getting fat(ter).

• Speed up the earth’s rotation and you’ll get fat and uninhibited. And if you’re already fat and uninhibited, you’ll probably become more so.

• Is dietary fat at the root of breast cancer? Or sugar? Denise Minger breaks it down.

• Not a surprise to us barefoot fanatics, but orthotics may not be the solution after all.

• Don't be a smug vegan. (Be a smug caveman instead.)

• I prefer this subway video to this subway video.

• Shocking: The L.A. Times reports that Cocoa Krispies aren't actually healthy for your kids.

• Remember the baby-swingers? Here’s an interview with one.

Light-Up Cereal Boxes

Because kids need greater incentive to ingest artificially-processed sugar bombs for breakfast.

Fasted Training?

I recently received an email from a reader asking me what I eat before my morning workout.

My answer: Nothing. As you may recall, I've adopted an intermittent fasting protocol, and I'm exercising on an empty stomach.

Some people think I'm insane for diving into CrossFit workouts ten or twelve hours into a fast. How do you have the energy? they ask. Don't you bonk halfway through your workout? Are you not aware that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?

Certainly, fasted training isn't a good idea unless your cortisol levels are already in check. But if you're  (one of the few of us) getting good sleep, keeping your stress levels low, and aren't pushing your body beyond capacity when exercising, working out without food in your belly is something to consider.

Fasted training can help increase endurance and boost the body's ability to store muscle glycogen efficiently. And as Chris Highcock pointed out, it can help you recover faster from endurance exercise. Plus, from an evolutionary perspective, it's been pointed out that our cavemen ancestors likely exerted themselves most strenuously while hunting for food -- not after they'd filled their stomachs with a meal.

And by the way, breakfast is by no means "the most important meal of the day." That's just a marketing slogan that breakfast cereal makers dreamed up decades ago (and still reverberating in the echo chamber of lazy science, agribusiness marketing, and the informational cascade). Don't swallow the hype: Skipping a meal doesn't "slow your metabolism" and make you fat.

Paleo Crack: No-Grain "Cereal"

Somebody stop me. Just because my Paleo "cereal" (a.k.a. my homemade trail mix in unsweetened almond milk) is grain/dairy/legume-free doesn't mean I can afford to keep scarfing down bowl after bowl.

I'm seriously contemplating asking my five-year-old to hide it from me.

Sugar: The Great New Taste Sensation

Sparkly!

(Source: BoingBoing)

Is A Cereal Box More Nutritious Than The Sugary Cereal Inside?

Adam Savage and the "Mythbusters" gang tried to find out, but got some unexpected results.