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It seems like our country is becoming more decadent by the day. I blame it all on these technologies that are getting slammed down our throats daily.
It was only 25yrs ago the avg american was able to repair and or work on his own car. This was before they decided to attach a computer to every single mechanical part in the friggen thing.
My mother just decided at 70 to get her first cell phone. I told her to ask for the simplest phone. I guess the salesman was a JO. It was funny explaining to her that the phone also took pictures, streaming video, web link,(she has no clue)plays music...etc. My father gave up trying to use the navigational system in his new car lol
Im sick of reading these "war and peace" size instruction manuals for every single NEW gadget every two years(digital camera)
The camera I got as a gift sony cyber sh!t The Ipod I got was a gift which still sits in its box from 2 x-masses ago. LOL and i just realized I have a friggen Tivo from 4 x-masses ago that never made it out of its box
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quote:Originally posted by rimasco: It seems like our country is becoming more decadent by the day. I blame it all on these technologies that are getting slammed down our throats daily.
It was only 25yrs ago the avg american was able to repair and or work on his own car. This was before they decided to attach a computer to every single mechanical part in the friggen thing.
My mother just decided at 70 to get her first cell phone. I told her to ask for the simplest phone. I guess the salesman was a JO. It was funny explaining to her that the phone also took pictures, streaming video, web link,(she has no clue)plays music...etc. My father gave up trying to use the navigational system in his new car lol
Im sick of reading these "war and peace" size instruction manuals for every single NEW gadget every two years(digital camera)
The camera I got as a gift sony cyber sh!t The Ipod I got was a gift which still sits in its box from 2 x-masses ago. LOL and i just realized I have a friggen Tivo from 4 x-masses ago that never made it out of its box
Ok, and let's all return to farming crops, dying young, and living like sh1t... great life.
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Its funny you say that cause I was going to add. Medicine is exempt from my rant.
Do you know how many jobs ez pass has cost the country?
Me neither
Living like sh1t? Child obesity along with adult is rampant in this country thanks to video games, the internet, and throw in the tech of trans fatty acids and I promise you within another 15yrs youll see a sharp drop in the avg life span.
Mark this post, open it in 15 yrs than stick it straight up yo azzzz.
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Type 2 Diabetes Is Increasing Among Children
I say its a side effect of tech.
Weight gain, poor nutrition, and lack of exercise reduce the action of insulin--a hormone that allows sugar to enter cells where it can be used for energy--a condition called insulin resistance. Initially, the body compensates for the resistance by increasing production. However, over time the ability of the pancreas to increase production doesn't keep up and blood sugar begins to rise, leading eventually to type 2 diabetes
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In 2000, the global consumption of carbonated soft drinks (soda) reached 179 billion liters—29.4 liters per person. (See Figure 1.) Soda maintained its ranking as the third most popular commercial beverage and edged closer to milk, which fell to 196 billion liters (32.2 liters per person). While milk consumption fell 3.0 percent between 1999 and 2000, soda consumption grew 2.9 percent.
The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, is the largest soda consumer and accounted for one third of total soda consumption in 1999. The 58 billion liters sold there generated $48 billion dollars in revenue for the soda industry.
the other stuff is definitely relevant too....
considering as how we do NOT even keep soda in our house? some other household is drinking our 20 extra liters per person each year
we do drink it, but not much...
Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School conducted the study, which is based on the decadelong Nurses Health Study II.
The study shows that women who drank one or more sugary drinks a day had an 83 percent greater chance of developing type 2 diabetes than women who drank less than one a month. The study shows that over a four-year period, weight gain was highest among women who increased their soda consumption from one or fewer drinks a week to one or more a day. An average 12-ounce can of soda contains 150 calories from 10 teaspoons of sugar. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/26/MNG088EJSU1.DTL
sometime? weigh out the amount of sugar in a soda and LOOK at it... you'll freak out... 10 teaspoonfulls??? it's like a quarter cup...
a BIG GULP? 29 teaspoons...
Cooking Measurement Equivalents 16 tablespoons = 1 cup 12 tablespoons = 3/4 cup 10 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons = 2/3 cup 8 tablespoons = 1/2 cup 6 tablespoons = 3/8 cup 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon = 1/3 cup 4 tablespoons = 1/4 cup 2 tablespoons = 1/8 cup 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons = 1/6 cup 1 tablespoon = 1/16 cup 2 cups = 1 pint 2 pints = 1 quart 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon 48 teaspoons = 1 cup
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Sugar is the main culprit. But you need to understand you can never eat anything containing sugar, as such, and still get more sugar than is healthy for you.
Carbohydrates are complexes of simple sugars and the process of digestion breakes them in to the various simple sugars of which they are composed.
If you eat nothing but beans and a dosage of vitimines and water to assure you have all the essential ingreadients for staying alive, you are a major candidate for diabetes.
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