Sardine In Orange Juice?

Close to the coast of Peru, swim thousands of millions of sardines and (live) anchovies, greasy and smelly little fish but very rich in nutrients like acid omega-3. Many are captured, chopped up or ground and used as alimentary feed to bigger animals. Some of these are kept for a more elevated destiny They are transported, purified, and served as part of breakfast in America, in the form of orange juice - cardio-healthy Tropicana, and in the bread Wonder Headstart. These products promise health benefits of valuable fish oil without it's odour or taste (in truth, without the fish).

According to medical and health experts, ingesting such fish oil rich in acid grease omega-3, increases greatly the cardiovascular protection and improve neurological development in children. "Most people don't eat salmon or sardine twice a day as a rule, but they do daily drink at least one or two glasses of orange juice, if it doesn't taste fishy yet has all it's benefits." said Ellie Halevy, director of marketing of Tropicana, a branch of PepsiCo.
The fish enriched orange juice is only one of the newest examples of food companies trying to compete in the sector, to capture the more and more health conscious customers. Long existed products include ginger ale with extract of green tea added, bacteria of yogurt in sauces, beetroot in powder form in peanut butter, etc. Many more other products are in the experimental developing phase like cheese capable of destroying intestinal parasites, and ketchup that regulates the digestive system ...

So what you see and what you eat are likely to be totally different things. I am not quite sure yet how I feel about all these.

Tags:sadines,anchovies,orangejuice

Current Mood: Contemplative

Monday Musings

** After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

** Some remedies are worse than the disease.

** Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

** The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

** God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

** Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off

the main road, by trying the untried.

** Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

** Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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Current Mood: Awake

The Crystal Box - Mind Boggling Magic Video

Magician Hans Klok performs his Grand Illusion “Crystal Box” on the French TV Show “The World’s Greatest Cabaret” hosted by Patrick Sébastien. Hans entertains the audience with his flair and beautiful assistants which help to make this act fun to watch. I liked the ending because I thought I saw what was coming but didn’t quite get it right.

The Ten Pound Note - Wordless Funny Video

A funny skit starring Irish Comedian Dave Allen about a man walking along a street when he spots a ten pound note stuck under the wheel of a car. The man is determined that he is going to retrieve this note so he comes up with a plan to retrieve it. I love the humour that is conveyed in this skit without a single word being spoken as Dave’s facial expressions are hilarious.

The dance group Attraction performs a Shadow Act that is a British Tribute to win the finals of Britain’s Got Talent. Attraction became a strong contender to win after their spectacular first performance wowed the audience and judges.

Old School - Literature & Adventure

I have been reading a book 'The old school' by Tobias Wolff. It's a novel partly based on his autobiography, about the formation of a boy in an Institute in New England, in 1960. The school enjoyed excellent reputation and high prestige due to it's attention dedicated to literature. One of the incentives or attractions for the students was the monthly visit of a well known author, each month a different one, whose name would be announced beforehand.

The pupils presented their own work, the visiting writer chose what he considered the best one, and the chosen would enjoy the privilege of a personal audience with the writer. The first invited guest was the poet Robert Frost, whom Wolff described as touchy and spiteful, followed by the authoress of best sellers Ayn Rand. The third celebrity writer was Earnest Hemingway.

Wolff told how the poems and stories presented by the boys were, and how they behaved or acted on those special occasions, in the public lecture and the reunion in the Club of Literature. Wolff himself had a couple of problems. Coming from a humble family background, he got the entrance to the Institute by winning a scholarship. Each time he wrote he fabricated the reality till one day, he saw an easily recognizable article in a magazine and he automatically copied it and won the audience with Hemingway.

In the last few chapters, his plagiarised deceit was discovered by the professors and he was expelled. From that moment on he began to go adrift, enlisted in the army fighting in the Vietnam war. When he returned home, he idled his days away observing people in bars. As opposed to writers who would use literature as a way of escaping the reality, and he a novelist expelled and without the protecting literary shelter, free to roam and conquer the world.

There had been other novels of similar themes. Literature appeared in these like a reserve, a refuge in which one feels protected from the hostile environment. Writing is used as a shield to overcome lack of family love and support, or a miserable life. The book gives something to think about. The classic story of a man rejected by society but he redeemed himself through his adventure into the outside world, and won finally the acceptance.

The novels of formation published here in Spain, are more of the contrary in which they tell of people, once becoming writers and recognised as such, they renounced the adventure of the world and limit themselves to passing through the filter of his literary vision, the reality they despise and refuse to accept.

Tags:literature,autobiography

Current Mood: Awake