Addicted to Sweets

Hard-wired from birth to seek out sweet tastes, the human body evolved a survival instinct 2 million years ago that steered Homo sapiens to sweet foods dense with energy, like ripe mangoes hanging from the tree, berries clustered on the vine and honey seeping from the comb.

Thousands of generations later, that primitive impulse, in a land of overabundant processed foods and sedentary lifestyles, works against easy weight control and a healthy energy balance. Scientists are now asking if our natural inclination to eat sweets can go too far. Can we lose control of our hunger for sugar, the very taste that aided our ancestors’ survival?

This week, a look at addiction to sweets.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa (composer, musician, film director, 1940-1993)

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Addicted to Sweets

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The Onion throughout the Ages

Historically, the onion is nothing to cry about. Over many centuries it occupied an exalted position as a work of art as well as a food. Not many people today would burst into tears if they were asked to consider the onion as a work of art, but they might do so if they had to eat one raw.

This week, a look at onions.

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Quote of the week: "Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known." - Charles Reade (English novelist and dramatist, 1814 - 1884)

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The History of Ketchup

Call it ketchup, catsup, catchup, tomato ketchup, or various other names, but it's a condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes. The primary ingredients in a typical modern ketchup are tomato concentrate, corn syrup (or other sugar), salt, and various spice and herb extracts.

But where did it come from? And how can something that is mostly tomatoes (which are botanically classified as a fruit) be a vegetable?

This week a look at the history of ketchup.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." - Dr. Seuss (Theodore Giesel, author and illustrator, 1904-1991)

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Columbus' historic voyages changed the world's menu

What would Italian cooking be without the tomato? How would Irish history have been different without the potato? What would the Swiss have done without chocolate? These and such products as tobacco, corn, cassava, and most species of bean were unknown in Europe before the voyages of Columbus.

He led four expeditions to the New World, but never accomplished his original goal: to find a western ocean route to Asia. Instead, Christopher Columbus ushered in a new era in world history by opening up the Americas to exploration, and brought these exotic items from the Americas to Europe and Africa, where they eventually revolutionized eating habits.

This week a look at how Columbus' historic voyages changed the world's menu.

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Quote of the week: "There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." - Carl Gustav Jung (a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology known as Jungian psychology, 1875 - 1961)

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