Excess Hydration Is Dangerous

It appears that excess hydration is dangerous!

Humans evolved doing intense exercise in extreme heat and dryness. We are able to tolerate losses in water relatively well whereas even slight over hydration can be far more dangerous. In simple terms, being too watery is as bad for you as being too concentrated.

As per the BBC:

"British Journal of Sports Medicine, September 2013, Current hydration guidelines are erroneous: dehydration does not impair exercise performance in the heat, Wall BA"

My advice, don't add water to your malt whisky!

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America's Shutdown

Out of interest I would be grateful to hear from loyal readers in the USA as to whether they have noticed any negative effects on their lives brought about by the government shutdown over there?

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Lorraine's Breakfast Boobs

It is indeed a strange and confused society that we live in, on the one hand certain tabloids (that can be freely purchased by all ages) happily display bare boobs and barely concealed cleavages with gay abandon.

However, when the breakfast show Lorraine had the "temerity" to do a feature on breast cancer; wherein a topless lady was taken through the self examination technique by Dr Hillary Jones, all hell broke loose.

The Telegraph reported that a spokeswoman from pressure group Mediawatch UK, which campaigns for family values in the media (cancer affects many families does it not?), said such broadcasts could be "problematic".

"Whilst there was nothing sexual or lascivious about the examination, this kind of thing can be problematic. 

There probably should have been a warning beforehand, as there may have been young children watching and it might have upset them a bit."

Twitter, unsurprisingly, also went OTT one user writing:

"I know they are talking about breast cancer awareness on Lorraine, but are they actually allowed to have someone half naked on TV at 9am??"

Another wrote:

"Boobs on telly at this time. Mental stuff on Lorraine."

Get over yourselves folks, society will not collapse nor will childrens' morals be corrupted because of this.

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The Dangers of Juice

As loyal readers know, Nanny has over the years pushed her "five a day" concept for the ingestion by her minions of five "portions" of fruit and veg in order for us to maintain our "health and vigour".

All very nice maybe, if it were based on any form of credible scientific research. Unfortunately, as with much of Nanny's advice/prohibitions etc the "science" behind it is in fact bollox; eg in January 2011 I noted as much.

Disregarding that dodgy science, there is in fact some decent scientific research carried out by Robert Lustig (an obesity expert) and writer of "Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth about Sugar".

Bottom line, and no surprises here, is that sugar is fattening.

Fair enough!

Additionally our obsession (fuelled by Nanny's five a day mantra) with fruit juice and smoothies is loading our bodies with excess sugar. Lustig is quoted by the Telegraph:

"Calorie for calorie, 100 per cent orange juice is worse for you than sugary sodas."

In Lustig's childhood obesity clinic in San Francisco an eight-year-old already has high blood pressure, thanks to a three-glasses-a-day juice habit. A six-year-old Latino boy comes to the clinic weighing 100lb, 'wider than he is tall'. His mother, a poor farm worker, has been letting him drink a gallon of juice a day because a government welfare programme gives them the juice for free.

The solution?

- Ignore Nanny's advice wrt five a day
- Stop drinking smoothies/juices
- Eat a real piece of fruit that hasn't had the fibre removed, then eat a piece of cheese to reduce the acid damage to your teeth
- Eat more salt to counterbalance the sugar;)

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Taking The Pisco

I was gemused to read that Nanny's pet hate (booze) has been temporarily surpassed by another pet hate of hers (that rears its head from time to time), namely that of eggs.

Normally Nanny berates us for the cholesterol danger of eggs. However, this time she frets about the risk of salmonella in raw eggs (ah the halcyon days of Eggwina Currie appear to have returned!).

What have raw eggs got to do with booze?

Well it seems, as with all things alcoholic, there is a trend at the moment for certain types of cocktails. These ones are mixed with raw eggs, eg a Pisco Sour which includes the white of an egg to give it a foamy head.

Kevin Coles of the British Egg Information Service says there is never a cast-iron guarantee of safety when it comes to raw eggs in food or drink, but that 98.5% of eggs stamped with the industry's red lion mark are safe.

He is quoted by the BBC:

"Any egg can contain salmonella but it is more or less a thing of the past in the UK. Eggs with the red lion mark have all come from chickens vaccinated against salmonella."

The Food Standards Agency doesn't advise against people consuming raw eggs if they so wish.

"However for vulnerable groups (including the elderly) we suggest they should avoid consumption of raw/lightly cooked eggs because of the risk of salmonella."

Fair enough!

So who has kicked up the fuss, all of a sudden abut raw eggs in drinks that have been consumed for decades?

None other than the BBC, writing a space filling non story that will doubtless cause unnecessary fuss and distress to the cocktail drinking classes!

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Hanging On The Telephone

I am pleased to see that our "respected" councils take care not to be too wasteful with our council tax.

Ermmm..actually they don't!

According to a recent Freedom of Information request made to 120 town halls, councils are spending hundreds of thousands of our hard earned council taxes on royalty payments for the right to play pop tunes as "hold music" for those waiting to get through to the council on the phone.

The Mail recently reported that 12 councils, that use pop music, spent £300,000 over the past three years. Doncaster Council admitted spending about £1,000 a year on hold music.

Mayor Ros Jones said:

"We have only just started using more varied and up-to-date music for customers to listen to when on hold or waiting for a response on the phone. 'This has been done to respond to feedback from customers. We regularly use feedback to improve the experience of our customers while ensuring a value-for-money approach."

Why not simply tell the "customers" where they are in the queue?

That's surely royalty free is it not?


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