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What Happens to Your Body When You Drink a Coke
A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown of the Effects The Sugar Shock 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don't immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down. Blood Sugar Spike Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There's plenty of that at...
Faith The Dog
This is a story about a dog who was born on Christmas Eve, 2002. He was born with 3 legs - 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which needed to be amputated. He of course could not walk when he was born. Even his mother did not want him. He was rejected and scorned. His first owner also did not think that he could survive. Therefore , he was thinking of putting...
The KitchenAid Mixer Chronicles
Never, ever, ever, ever get divorced, but if you are going through it like I am, I really feel for you. The strange thing I found after separating is you go to get something (especially in the kitchen) and you can't find it, so you think "hmm maybe I misplaced it". Then you think "hmm, maybe she took it with her" and you repeat that process a million times until you drive yourself crazy. When...
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
For Christmas, my mom and dad got me "The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember." Kevin Rose just tweeted about the video above. "In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. This is a video clip of the exchange...
So I Got an iPhone
My AT&T contract was finally up, so I went to Best Buy yesterday and got myself an iPhone. While I'm still in the learning phase, I can already tell this device is going to fundamentally change how I interact with technology. Case in point: Last night I needed to visit a new location. I had printed directions to use with my car's GPS, but in my rush, I left them at home. No problem! I...