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The Truth About Our Foods

Eat Food. Not Much. Mostly Plants.
by TC


He wrote about how dead rats were shoveled into sausage grinding machines. He explained, in nauseating detail, how diseased cows were slaughtered for beef; how guts and garbage were swept off the floor and sold as "potted ham."

Upton Sinclair even described how the occasional worker would fall into a meat-processing tank and be ground, along with animal parts, into "Durham's Pure Leaf Lard."

The Chicago meat-packing industry was in deep trouble after Sinclair's landmark book, The Jungle, was published in 1906. It caused outrage in America and abroad and meat sales fell by half. The book forced the government to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, which established the Food and Drug Administration.

Thanks largely to Sinclair, you can be relatively certain that your food is comparatively free of a variety of disgusting things.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of different ways to foul up our food supply and circumstances require that incarnations of Sinclair surface every generation or so to investigate our food supply.

Read the rest of the article here.

Kettlebells in the Wall Street Journal

Getting a Handle On Weight Training
By LAURA JOHANNESMarch 18, 2008; Page D2

They look like cannonballs with handles. Some fitness experts say these weight-training tools, called kettlebells, create a unique, full-body workout, but other experts fear the explosive movements usually involved with the equipment could cause injury.
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Kettlebells, used by weightlifters in the early 20th century, are becoming popular again. That's largely due to former Russian military instructor Pavel Tsatsouline, who teamed up in 2001 with fitness publisher Dragon Door Publications Inc., of Little Canada, Minn., to start selling kettlebells in the U.S. A number of companies now sell the bells, which have a rough cast-iron surface.

In general, men start with a 35-pound bell and women start with 18 or 26 pounds, depending on their strength. Dragon Door says women are 40% of its customers and about 80% of those attending classes taught by instructors certified in its methods.

Read the complete article here.

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