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98 percent of DNA is unnecessary ‘junk’

“So-called junk DNA, the vast majority of the genome that doesn’t code for proteins, really isn’t needed for a healthy organism, according to new research.”

As… antioxidants boot vitamins to the curb; yogurt slams the fridge on anything less bacterial; BPA finds a new cylindrical loophole; …in creeps reality. Sweet, but only in the moment—like one last addictive crunch, slurp, puff, or whatever.

I would like to reroute you to the fact that science is always heading down the trash-shoot. Sure a law on momentum is obviously beyond what scripture could rally up, but then again, it is this same momentum that oils up the brightest moments of yesterday and sends them sliding into that heaping pile of forgotten.

Really? Ninety-eight percent? Exclamation point.

It feels as though 98% of our ideas fondle this lackluster whim of whatever is currently skittering under our always better microscopes. There’s one way to tell when you’ve been whipped-up in this bullshit for a moment too long. It’s that point when a scientist—a wanker of testtubes—impregnates our imaginations with these amazing ideas. These ideas that make us rip our bras off and vacuum out our sweater-meat—organs and all.

Too soon Angelina?

Or too late?

Science tells us how we can prevent our future demise. Future science will nix these redundant fumbles and push itself further away from the simplicity that will never be bottled-up, let alone understood fully, as it is always something on the run. Never to be caught. Never to be anything near that textbook nonsense or daily rubbish found on the tube.

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374 days 15 hours 32 minutes 8 seconds 

When the clock strikes five post meridiem today, my days without drinking water will enumerate themselves to a bunny-in-the-hat 365—my first 365, but surely not my last; as this number will certainly topple the twenty-three plus years that came before it in due time. It’s no longer a ‘somehow’, an ‘impossible’, or an ‘unexpected’ by any means of any imagination. It’s just another New Year’s ball to drop timely each year.

My urine continues to drip a sweet mellowy see-through yellow and as for the rest of the parts, fluids, and various other odds and ends that make up the whole of me—they too fall neatly in line. Stacking themselves day by day. I lack that dehydration that should have shriveled me into tissue paper after the touted three days that dooms any internet lurker in search for more.

I am beyond “healthy” because sometimes it’s better to not squeeze oneself into society’s dictionary of everything. No matter how odd or down-brow and knitted-eye ugly the opinions and forced realities of others may seem—I can only laugh, imagining that first bird that evolved itself into a set of feathers that could do more than just hang—being squawked at for years. Just noise below trying to weigh down the reality that was clearly soaring above.

Because when you can fly…

You CAN fly.

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There are a few rules when it comes to slobbering over a few handfuls of those oddly speckle-seeded red gems we call strawberries:

First and foremost—buy organic strawberries. Why? Because they taste like strawberries. They are adorably sweet and don’t rub raw on your taste buds with that tangy and godawful bitter firework show that leaves you squeamish after only a nibble on one of the conventionals.

Secondly—quit crew-cuttin’ the salad that tops this fine fruit. That little patch of garden is all too often purged because society has ribboned it up as scum too unthinkable to touch anything but the blade that separates wholesome nutrition from our hygienic misfirings.

Lastly—Enjoy!

P.S. Don’t worry about washing them…

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Two women petition Kraft to take yellow dye out of its popular mac & cheese

Oh… Lisa and Vani.

How profound of you. How cradle the kittens.

The conspiracy theorist in me reckons that Kraft rolled some change into each of your bank accounts—all in an effort to twirl up their cheesy heavenliness as some sort of damsel. To be rescued by the corporation that boxed up this princess all decked out in yellow 5 and yellow 6. A ploy that eats up the breadcrumbs of a murder scene and bakes another pie altogether.

However, the common sense in me drowns me in giggles as I sit here reading your cry for help and eventually wander over to “100 Days of Real Food,” where you scoreboard yourself as a family blogger with two kids and zilch, nada, nothing in the processed foods column.

“Kraft has “already formulated a safer version and we deserve the same in the U.S.” says Leake, who writes the blog 100 Days of Real Food. “These additives provide no value to the foods, but they do pose risks.”"

You use the noun ‘food’ so freely—and you tack on adjectives such as ‘real’ so poetically. I could only imagine what you and your family were consuming prior to the realization of these said real foods. Were you under the table gnawing on nylabones? Maybe a step up—crude protein biscuits? Maybe a step down—sodium tripolyphosphate?

And just for shits and giggles, so that we can be on the same page—, am I right to assume that, minus the yellows, every ingredient batched up by Kraft is Lisa and Vani approved? All of these ingredients:

Enriched Macaroni Product (, WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE [IRON], THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID) , Cheese Sauce Mix (, WHEY, MILKFAT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: , CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, MILK, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE

“But Kraft is an iconic American brand,” she says. And in their effort to draw attention to the issue, “we wanted to make sure we targeted (a company) that could set an example of providing safer foods, eliminating ingredients that are bad for health reasons, and get away from this double standard.”

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Are raspberry ketones a ‘miracle’ fat burner? Dr. Oz weighs in.

“In a February episode of “The Dr. Oz Show,” Mehmet Oz told viewers that raspberry ketones were “the No. 1 miracle in a bottle to burn your fat.” Once Oz calls something a “miracle,” it doesn’t remain obscure for long.

“An adjective like ‘miracle’ is used as an editorial device to describe anecdotal results, as exemplified by the guests on our show. Our audience are not scientists, and the show needs to be more lively than a dry scientific discussion,” a spokesman for the show, Tim Sullivan, said in a statement, adding that the show does not view supplements as “magic bullets.”"

As Dr. “Amazing” dances the fine lines of a script, the audience is left with a cupboard full of extracted bullshit.

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an·ti·ox·i·dant

n.

1. A chemical compound or substance that inhibits oxidation.

2. A substance, such as vitamin E, vitamin C, or beta carotene, thought to protect body cells from the damaging effects of oxidation.

In essence, it’s a pseudonym for vitamins, and nothing else. No different than labeling sodium, potassium, and magnesium as electrolytes and paying athletes to tell the world that Gatorade is the only place they can get these said ‘electrolytes.’

If I were to dig even a bit deeper and page my way to ‘beta carotene’:

-any of several orange or red crystalline hydrocarbon pigments (as C40H56) that occur in the chromoplasts of plants and in the fatty tissues of plant-eating animals and are convertible to vitamin A. (A precursor to a vitamin)

You can crawl the inter-web and scrounge up plenty of evidence proving that excessive multi-vitamin intake can cause cancer, yet you will never find a commercial for One-A-Day Carcinogens Metastasizing since 1901™.

It’s nothing but a ploy. A scheme in which they market only a piece of the puzzle while the consumer is left to swallow the whole shebang.

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