Posts Tagged With: fat

Origin of Our Obesity Epidemic

Posted on December 8, 2024 by pauldelancey

Many people worry about America’s obesity epidemic (AEO) Blame for this health crisis generally falls on processed food and sedentary lifestyles. Culinary historians, however, point to the signing of the Declaration of Independence as the trigger event of the march to obesity. The previously thin founding fathers put on such a lavish, after-signing pot luck that all put on a layer of founding fat. Some of the signers did go on diets to lose their signing blubber. Many of the other great kept piling on the gravy, the turkey dinners and got fatter. Ben Franklin exclaimed later, “I can’t for the life of me lose this founding fat. It’s turned to hard fat.”

During the early 1810s the British made such, unrelenting fun of our tubby politicians that we felt a moral imperative to chastise them in the War of 1812. And so concludes today’s history lesson.

 

 

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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Weight Loss Through Anti-Fat Matter

Posted on August 2, 2024 by pauldelancey

welcomes scientific advancement

The universe is composed of matter and  anti-matter. When anti-matter contacts matter, matter disappears.

It stands to reason that our universe (Three cheers for it, hurray, hurray, hurray) is also made up of fat matter and anti-fat matter. Then when anti-fat matter collides with fat matter, fat disappears. All we need to do is find anti-fat matter. I applaud this search.

Such instantaneous disappearance of fat would be much preferable to dreary, difficult diets.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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How Big Are My Body Parts in Terms of Large Slurpee(tm) Cups?

Posted on July 5, 2024 by pauldelancey

It is, of course, fascinating to wonder about the size of our internal organs. This was nearly the only thing our ancestors talked about before the advent of the internet, computers, electricity, and other newfangled inventions. Nowadays, we’ve diverted some of our attention to photos of puppies, kitten, and where to find the best Taco-Tuesday deals.

But we still care the size of our organs. As who would not?

It transpires that the average size of a human brain is 1350 cubic centimers. How big is that? And what is a cubic centimer?

Clearly the size of anything in cubic centimeters eludes us? We need a image of something we all readily know.

The large Slurpee cup. The volume of this well-known beverage is 651 cubic centimeters. Now we’re cooking with gas. Using this vital information, we can calculate the size of all sorts of innards into something we can all understand. And here we go.

HUMAN BODY PART SIZE CHART

organ…………………………….volume in large Slurpee cups

It’s as big as 2.074 large Slurpee cups

air……………………….9.22    (Not an organ, but it’s inside our body so I’m listing it.)
body, male………….92.17
brain………………….2.074
chimpanzee brain….0.59  (Chimpanzees are not humans. So, we do not possess chimpanzee brains. But it’s an enchanting fact.)
fat………………………18.43   (We’ve been drinking a lot of Slurpees.)
hair……………………..0.02
heart……………………0.46
homo erectus brain..1.23  (Home erectus is an ancestor for many of us and us it’s nice to know the size of forebearer Ogg’s brain.)
intestinal tract………2.76
kidneys…………………0.41
liver……………………..2.26
lungs……………………..1.19
muscle………………..35.33
pancreas……………….0.15  (This small organ does something.)
poop…………………….3.07  (What your “full of,” is this amount.)
skeleton………………10.56
skin………………………2.76
urinary bladder……..0.21   (Where does all that Slurpee go, if not there?)
urine…………………….0.77   (That’s bigger than our bladder! What the heck?)

Now you know. If your local eater bar or restaurant holds quiz show features the topic body-part sizes, you’ll win for sure.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

­My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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Sure Fire Hack to a Flatter Stomach

Posted on November 19, 2023 by pauldelancey

Face it, society puts a lot of pressure on us to look thin. Many of us are overweight, including me. How do we get thinner? By exercising and dieting.

But those options are hard, take a lot of time to see results, and frankly, not fun at all. If only there were a way to become thinner without any effort at all.

Now, there is such a way.

We only have to face the correct way from the moon and our stomachs will flatten.

IT’S THAT EASY!!!!!!!!

You may skip the following scientific explanation if you’re absolutely gung ho to go outside* and flatten your stomach

* * = You don’t even have to do this to thin your stomach. The moon’s gravitational field works everywhere you go. IT’S AMAZING!!

Anyway, the moon’s gravitational pull produces a tidal force. This force makes Earth’s oceans bulge out on the sides closest  and farthest to the moon. These ocean bulges are high tides. (You learn something every day.) Basically, the moon makes the Earth get fatter.

Science

So, how does this help our big bellies?

Face away FROM the moon* at night

AND

Face in the SAME direction as the moon in the day time.

IT’S THAT SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!

Do this all the time and people will be throwing themselves at your magnificent body, you Greek god/goddess you.

* = Admittedly, the moon is often easier to see at night.

And look!!! The man on the left is facing the incorrect way.  The SAME man on the right, however, is facing the correct way.

 

See?

PROOF YOU CANNOT DENY!!!!!

WATCH THE MOON AND GET THIN!!!!!!!

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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