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Here is a page showing the ingredients. The top 5?

- Soybean oil, water, vinegar, sugar, egg yolks.

Soybean oil, water and vinegar. And they call it a ‘creamy’ dressing? Where is the dairy? A creamy dressing is mostly soybean oil? Wow.

Here is the top 5 ingredients for the Fat Free Version.

- Water, corn syrup, cultured low fat buttermilk, vinegar, sugar.

Water and CORN SYRUP are the main ingredients??? At least this one has buttermilk.

So we are paying for mostly soybean oil, or with the Fat Free version, mostly water. Then a bunch of chemicals that are obviously made to make the junk palatable.

And this brings me to my bitch about the US. You can’t spend 10 minutes on the Internet without tripping over an article about how the rich/poor gap is widening in the US - so much so there are fears it could hurt the economy.

You have to look a little, but you can find a lot of articles that would say why companies make products like this - price. Companies defend their use of high fructose corn syrup and other junk by saying that if they use better ingredients, people just choose the lowest priced item.

2+2=4…ok yes I can still do simple reasoning. So let’s review.

The US rich/poor gap is widening.

Companies claim ‘we have to put unhealthy crap in foods because consumers want the cheapest items!’

Reduce the rich/poor gap, start paying Walmart employees more and $.20 difference on a bottle of Ranch Dressing isn’t something people would worry about. Everyone wants healthier foods (as long as they are understand why it is important) but people have to survive.

Now I am not blaming companies in the US for everything, (some people wouldn’t care about the ingredients no matter what) but I know from experience that as my wife and I made more money and broke above the average US salary zone, at some point, we quit looking at food prices. We bought what we wanted, we looked for healthier foods, whole grain breads. This was before we had kids - now we try to buy healthier foods but at times, we just go with the cheapest option.

I shouldn’t really complain, there are millions of people that are struggling just to survive, and I whine about the ingredients of my salad dressing, as I walk through my local air conditioned super market. Unfortunately though, the middle and lower class of America seem to be dealing with less and less than they did in the past, but the rich are just becoming Super Rich. When I was young, there was a general feeling that American was blazing a trail for developing nations, and that as we became rich, the rest of the world would rise too. I am not advocating communism, but the more I read, the more it seems that the poor of the world are still poor, the middle and lower classes of developed nations are getting squeezed, and those at the top have more money than they know what to do with.

But for today, I don’t have time to worry about that, I just want my salad dressing made with REAL ingredients.

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for breakfast and had no ‘low fat’ options at all, yet were in better shape. Not every person worked a highly physical job. Fat also makes you feel full…

I would propose that it’s the sugar in American diets that causes the obesity. High Fructose Corn Syrup should be illegal in my book. In history, humans ate fatty meats, but did not eat sugar. Only in the last 50+ years has sugar become pervasive in our diets. That alone is not proof, but the study above is a pretty big piece of evidence that points to that conclusion, I think.

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and then they’re gone and it shouldn’t be that way. People like these two are rare and I’d give anything to have a fraction of the devotion they possess. To truly love another human being more then yourself, if we could capture that what an amazing species of creature we could be.

Until we learn that lesson, it’s people like these two that remind us with all the darkness in the world there are still some lights to follow. Shame on the rest of us for thinking that our moments of darkness are anything more then a call to action, a call to strive harder and for more, an opportunity to be greater.

The second video I added because towards the end it has a line that was in the article that Ricky says to his father about what he would do if he was physically able. As for what that is you’ll just have to watch and find out =P.

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had the same effects as Spurlock did. He was warned he might be causing irreparable damage to his liver by his doctors. In Nyström’s experiement, not only did the participants not have the same issues with their liver - their liver actually got better after 3 weeks of eating. It seems our body is a lot more adaptable than we give it credit for.

Does this mean go eat a Big Mac every day? Nope. I don’t think anyone would say they are good for you, and they are full of saturated fat which is proven to be bad for you over the long haul. But it does seem likely that Spurlock exagerated to make a movie. Or, as Fredrik Nyström theorizes, possibly Spurlock has some other problem with his liver, or there is some other factor that caused him to have more trouble than other people might.

They are conducting the experiment on more subjects to get more data, the findings will be released around Christmas time.

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I found the most interesting was how they’re finding that exercise can make the brain produce new nerve cells and, as the article says, I had always heard that that wasn’t possible. They also talk about this “And there are clues that physical activity can stave off the beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD and other cognitive disorders”.

So for as little as a half hour to an hour a day out of your TV time, you can help keep yourself keen of mind and body. Add that to the list of reasons you should find that time everyday and stick with it. It really does get easier after you do it for a little while trust me, you’ll thank yourself for doing it.

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