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A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page. And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies: • Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful • Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better • Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks • Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying • People Are Groggy When They Wake Up • Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu • Study on Studies Yields Disappointment! • Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS! • Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them • Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat! • Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones • Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor • Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions • Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies • Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation • People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap • Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs • People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner • People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do • Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not... • People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses • People pass more gas when they are active • Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches • People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Posted 10:41 AM
  Close Enough for Government Work I couldn't wait to hear back from Snapple and did a little Googling. The kind folks at Diamond Crystal, the makers of Splenda No Calorie Sweetener have explained it all. Even though their product contains maltodextrin and sucrose, it is also a no calorie food. According to their FAQ: SPLENDA® Granular contains maltodextrin, a common food ingredient that adds minimal calories and carbohydrates to each serving (see chart below). Each cup of SPLENDA® Granular has only 1/8 the calories and carbohydrates of sugar. On a per serving basis (1 tsp.), SPLENDA® Granular has 2 calories and less than ½ gram of carbohydrate. SPLENDA® Granular meets the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) standards for a 'no calorie' food, with less than 5 calories per serving A cup of sugar has 770 calories. 1/8 the calories of a cup of sugar would be 96.25 calories. Apparently, one cup of single serving Splenda packets has 0 calories, but if you use the bulk package then I guess it has 96.25 calories. Kids, remember this for your MCAS and SATs: 0=4.999 and 770/8=0 Posted 10:26 AM
Overlooked, revolutionary scientific breakthrough Pondering nothing in particular as I enjoyed my diet Snapple Lemon Iced Tea the other day, I noticed that although it has one gram of carbohydrate per serving, it has zero calories. I've written to them to ask what kind of carbohydrate they use, and if I could buy them in bulk to use in my new reduced-calorie/full-flavor bread, pasta, and beer business. They have not responded. © 2002-2008 Rob Falk, All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Denied. Your mileage won't vary; it will be less. | Subscribe to Rants!
  
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