I’m here to tell you how to lose twenty pounds–give or take an ounce or two–in one fell swoop…or maybe it was when the swoops fell…whaever.
I’ve been following some of the items that have been popping up on FB for the last few months, items about losing weight ( Is somebody out there trying to send me a message?) in an amazingly short time (The number of pounds varies and can stretch to over fifty pounds, practically overnight, meanwhile being able to eat pizza, ice cream, cheeseburgers, all favorite foods with no other effort –either of exercise or abstinence.) Well, as the saying goes, “If it sounds too good to be true, it IS too good to be true. Every one of these “secret” recipes claims to be pursued by “Big Pharma” because they will cost the weight-loss industry millions and billions. The same fat people appear in the video clips, same researchers too, same pans of Jello cut into squares, same promises about having to get a whole new wardrobe because your clothes do not fit.
The last one of these come-ons I watched promised to show this “secret “ recipe in two minutes; that one ran about an hour, with no recipe in sight but an AMAZING offer to send about four hundred dollars’worth of pills from a Japanese lab. But order fast–only 54 bottles left.
Don’t tell anyone, but the secret ingredients are : gelatin, Japanese green tea extract, acerola…or juice of half a lemon…or apple cider vinegar (depends on which “secret” recipe you’re getting), turmeric, piperine–whatever that is. Sound like anything you’ve got lying around your kitchen? And you NEVER see the complete mixing being done…though the Jello does look pretty good, especially with Cool Whip.
This just in from The Week : Business analysts project that the popularity of weight-loss drugs could save the top four airlines–American, Delta, Southwest and United– as much as $580 million…less fuel required to get lighter passengers up in the sky.
And speaking of eating, sort of( heckuva segue, huh), I heard on the radio the other day (WKSU–Science Friday) that paleontologists are all excited about having discovered, in 2021, in Germany, a sample of regurgitalite–that’s fossilized vomit to you–not the same as coprolite, which is fossilized poop. But you knew that, right? The deposit was left some 290 million years ago when the continents were all one big land mass known to paleogeologists as Pangaea. They–the scientists, that is–thought that the samples were left by ancestors of mammals known as –more household names–Dimetrodon teutonis or Tambacarnifex unguifalcatus.
This means they were not dinosaurs and the contents of these finds were examined by high-resolution X-rays so as to determine their contents without just digging right in. Yum. Isn’t Science fun?
