TEETH & CALORIES

Your TEETH will ERODE!!!

Teeth erode at any pH lower than 5.5. pH refers to the 'potential of the hydrogen' because chemically, the hydrogens accompanying acids are what causes their toxic effects. The lower the pH, the more acidic. Neutral is a pH of 7, examples are saliva and pure water. Basic is any pH greater than 7, like liquid plumber or windex.

Soft drinks, namely Coca-Cola, have a pH of 2.9-3.3. That means every time you have thrown your head back and taken a refreshing gulp of 'your poison' (HAHAHAHA), you have been slowly degrading the enamel that protects those defenseless pearly whites!

Another item to watch out for: vinegar!! Vinegar is worse than pop! Vinegar has a pH of 2.2! And number one acidic badboy of common household materials is

Limes.

Believe it or not, limes are WORSE than lemons.
(I'm actually getting all this from a website and they put the battery as the most acidic common household material but I have omitted that here since nobody will ever drink a battery.)
Lemons are the runner ups with a pH of 2.2-2.4.
Limes have a pH of 1.8-2.0.

Yowza! Unless I have decided to execute all my teeth, I don't think I will ever go near another lime or lemon, for that matter!

Now, lets talk CALORIES!

Did you know?
1 pound of body fat is equal to 3,500 calories. To lose ONE pound of body fat, you need to CREATE a deficit of 3,500 over a period of time. Ideally, the best way to do this is to lose 1 pound a week by making a deficit of 250 calories in your diet and burning off 250 calories by exercising, PER DAY. You lose 500 calories per day, which will give you 3,500 calories in one week.

To go about starting a diet, you need to make a list of all the foods you consume throughout the day. One's diet usually doesn't change extremely so this shouldn't be so hard. Next, is to find out how many calories each food contains, with respect to portion sizes.
Few examples:

1 small apple - 55
1 medium avocado - 322 (WTF?!?!?!?!)
1 pomegranate - 105
1 banana - 105

1 cup of vanilla ice cream - 145
1 cup of skim milk - 83
1 cup of chocolate milk - 208
1 cup of low fat yogurt - 137

1 can of sweetened cola - 136
1 cup of coffee - 2 (WTF??!!)
1 can of regular beer - 153
1 can of light beer - 103
1 can of ginger ale - 124

Taco Bell Original Beef Taco - 184
Wendy's Classic Single Hamburger - 464
Wendy's French Fries - 507
McDonald's Sausage Egg McMuffin - 446
McDonald's Big Mac - 563
McDonald's Cheeseburger - 313
McDonald's Fillet o Fish - 400
McDonald's Fries - 522 <-------- WOW
4 McDonald's Chicken McNuggets - 169 (not bad)

Alright, so all who agree that fast food surely equals death, raise their hands.
(Both my hands are up.)

I just feel that if everybody stopped eating out, we wouldn't be reading headlines like, 'Nine million Australians are a Ticking Fat Bomb.' Eating in saves you money and doesn't create an excess of calories!
I mean, if some newspaper threw in the headline, "CANADA IS SINKING DUE TO OVERWEIGHT POPULATION," I would surely make an effort to work against it!!

HEALTHY IS IN! CHOOSE LIFE!!

Observation

There are snails everywhere.

Senses

A friend of mine recently received surgery on her nose to help her breathe better. The shape wasn't altered at all; it was purely for health. She had been breathing through her mouth for basically her entire life. I saw her this past Tuesday and wow, the stories she would tell. Because she hadn't been able to breathe through her nose, her sense of taste had also been affected. Now, she explains, everything just tastes and smells so different! I was pretty amazed at the impact the surgery had. Breathing through your nose is definitely something we all take for granted. I just tried breathing through only my mouth and it's definitely weird and HARD. My friend talked about eating grilled salmon, spaghetti, chocolate, etc. This got me thinking to other sense we all take for granted.

I saw a girl waiting at the bus stop with me and she was blind. I don't know if she's been blind for her entire life, but I'm assuming so because she definitely looked younger than me. Imagine trying to explain the colour blue to her. When she touches things, she can only imagine what it would look like. Come to think of it, I wonder what images a blind person could imagine. If she were to touch her hands, she knows there are 5 fingers and there are these hard things called nails at the end of each. But essentially, she would not ever really know what her fingers looked like. Now, there is a high possibility she isn't completely blind. Most people aren't. But the few that are, I wonder what images would come up in their minds. I mean, if they had had a glimpse of at least one thing in their life, then other images could be made up from that. But, if all they had been seeing was black (or white; I don't know what 'colour' a completely blind person would experience), how could they imagine anything? Or dream, for that matter. I wonder what they dream...

Basically, I guess we shouldn't take these things for granted. Imagine never being able to see the person you really care about, never being able to see colours, or how pretty you really are. Well, if the whole world wasn't able to see, I guess most of our values would lie elsewhere...