To Your Health - Chocolate

The treat once uncovered by Aztecs and now gobbled by millions not only tastes delicious but is healthy for you.

This week, a look at research from UC Davis (Go Ags!) shows how chocolate can be good for you (like I needed research to tell me that).

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide (French critic, essayist, & novelist, 1869 - 1951)

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Butter

The Iowa State Fair has boasted a "Butter Cow" since the early 1900s. It starts with a wood, metal, wire and steel mesh frame and about 600 lbs. of low moisture, pure cream Iowa butter. Once inside the 40-degree cooler, layers of butter are applied until a life-size butter cow emerges - measuring about 5-1/2-ft high and 8-ft long. Each year features one of the six major dairy breeds - Jersey, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Holstein, Guernsey and Milking Shorthorn.

Are you wondering, like I am, what happens to all of that butter at the end of the fair? Much of the butter is recycled and reused for up to 10 years. A 600-lb. butter cow would butter 19,200 slices of toast and take an average person two lifetimes to consume, according to sponsor Midwest Dairy Association.

This week, a look at butter.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." - Mark Twain (US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit, 1835 - 1910)

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Carrots

If you eat too many carrots, you'll turn orange. That's a fact, not something to scare your kids with (or maybe it is). Carotene is the red or yellow hydrocarbon pigment that gives carrots their characteristic cheery color, and also helps to brighten up egg yolks, sweet potatoes, and a variety of leafy vegetables. Intemperate carrot consumption will make the carotene build up in your bloodstream. Before you know it, your skin will take on a sickly yellow pallor, a grisly condition that superficially resembles jaundice.

And here I thought they were only good for making cake. This week, a look at carrots.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up." - Anne Lamott (political activist and author of several novels and works of non-fiction, 1954 - )

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Radar

Air traffic control uses radar to track planes both on the ground and in the air, and also to guide planes in for smooth landings. Police use radar to detect the speed of passing motorists. NASA uses radar to map the Earth and other planets, to track satellites and space debris and to help with things like docking and maneuvering. Meteorologists use radar to track storms, hurricanes and tornadoes. You even see a form of radar at many grocery stores when the doors open automagically.

This week, a look at something that is invisible and in use all around us, radar.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." - Brendan Gill (American author and writer, 1914 - 1997)

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