Clipmarks | Brimstone's 'food' clips

Fast Food: Ad pictures vs. real pictures

Mon, 14 May 2007 17:01:25 GMT

clipped by: BigBadWolf
clipper's remarks: This always bugged me and now someone has actually done the work for me!

Clip Source: www.thewvsr.com

Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality

Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing
was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate
representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.

Burger King Enormous Omelet Sandwich

Arby's Beef 'n' Cheddar

KFC Famous Bowl

Subway six-inch turkey breast and ham sub

Wendy's Southwest Taco Salad

Burger King sausage, egg, and cheese croissant

McDonald's Big Mac

Taco Bell Nachos Bell Grande

McDonald's Filet O Fish Sandwich

Burger King Whopper

McDonald's Sausage McMuffin

Tags: food, photos

77 ways for deeper, faster 7 better brain power!

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:07:21 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: Hi! clipped as much as possible...you may have to visit the site for the rest...quite informative and useful stuff.

Clip Source: oedb.org

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

Health

Shake a leg

Food for thought: Eat breakfast

Food for thought, part 2: Eat a light lunch

Cognitive enhancers: Ginkgo biloba.

Reduce stress + depresssion.

Balance

Sleep on it.

Take a break.

Take a hike

Change your focus.

Perspective and Focus

Change your focus, part 2

Do walking meditation

Focus and immerse yourself

Turn out the lights.

Take a bath or shower

Recall Techniques

Listen to music

Speedread.

Use acronyms and other mnemonic devices

Visual Aids

Every picture tells a story

Brainmap it.

Learn symbolism and semiotics

Use information design

Use visual learning techniques

Map your task flow

Verbal and Auditory Techniques

Stimulate ideas

Brainstorm

Learn by osmosis

Cognitive enhancers: binaural beats.

Laugh

Kinesthetic Techniques

Write, don't type

Carry a quality notebook at all times.

Keep a journal. T

Organize.

Use post-it notes

Self-Motivation Techniques

Give yourself credit.

Motivate yourself.

Tags: brain, learning, knowledge, science, tips, interesting, useful.

Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:39:18 GMT

clipped by: rocker
clipper's remarks: Hilarious Translations!

Clip Source: moronland.net

Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

1) The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth."

3) The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation read "Are You Lactating?"

8) When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the labels of what's inside, since many people can't read.

9) Pepsi's "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in Chinese.

Tags: slogans, translations, coca cola, baby food, humour, funny, idiotic

23 Obscure and Obsolete Words

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:41:58 GMT

clipped by: missangelyss

Clip Source: www.canongate.net

23 Obscure and Obsolete Words

The average adult recognises 30,000 to 50,000 words, but only uses 10,000 to 15,000. However, there are actually about 1 million words in the English language, some of which - although obscure, forgotten, or rarely used - are worth reviving.

BOANTHROPY - A type of insanity in which a man thinks he is an ox.
CHANTEPLEURE - To sing and weep at the same time.
DIBBLE - To drink like a duck, lifting up the head after each sip.
EOSOPHOBIA - Fear of dawn.
EUGERIA - Normal and happy old age.
EUNEIROPHRENIA - Peace of mind after a pleasant dream.
EYESERVICE - Work done only when the boss is watching.
FELLOWFEEL - To crawl into the skin of another person so as to share his feelings, to empathise with.
GROAK - To watch people silently while they are eating, hoping they will ask you to join them.
GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILE - One who likes to nibble on a woman's earlobes.
HEBEPHRENIC - A condition of adolescent silliness.
IATROGENIC - Illness or disease caused by doctors or by prescribed treatment.
LAPLING - Someone who enjoys resting in women's laps.
LIBBERWORT - Food or drink that makes one idle and stupid, food of no nutritional value, `junk food'.
MEUPAREUNIA - A sexual act gratifying to only one participant.
NEANIMORPHIC - Looking younger than one's years.
ONIOCHALASIA - Buying as a means of mental relaxation.
PARNEL - A priest's mistress.
PERISTEROPHOBIA - Fear of pigeons.
PILGARLIC - A bald head that looks like a peeled garlic.
PREANTEPENULTIMATE - Fourth from last.
RESISTENTIALISM - Seemingly spiteful behaviour manifested by inanimate objects.
SUPPEDANEUM - A foot support for crucifix victims.

Other lists in Words

Have a browse of the List of Lists down the left hand side of this page for more lists in different subjects...

Tags: english, grammar, wordsmith, words

Top 5 brain health foods! period

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:36:54 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: the coffee bean, much like the cacao bean, is incredibly rich with antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Fresh-ground gently roasted coffee bean powder (again, like with cacao) has numerous brain and body health benefits....so folks,now you may drink a MUG OF COFFEE! happily...

Clip Source: www.brainready.com

simple list of the very best, proven natural foods & drinks for optimum brain (and body) health.

1) Wild Salmon

2) Cacao Beans

3) Matcha (Tencha-grade green tea powder)

4) Acai berries & Blueberries (tie)

5) Coffee beans

Wild salmon is not only an incredible food for brain health, it qualifies as incredible across virtually every other health standard as well and is clearly one of the healthiest foods that one can eat.

what's healthy is the cacao bean, minimally processed

When you drink real stone-ground Japanese Matcha, you're not only drinking the arguably highest-quality, most carefully cultivated green tea variety, you're actually consuming it all -- you're eating the whole thing

Acai...a berry

contains Essential Fatty Acids like Omega-3's like salmon, and and is even high in protein.

Tags: 5, health, food, brain, optimum, salmon, beans, coffee, berry, blueberry

Religious Cartoons. Not a bit funny. Ok?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:11:38 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: A god send. Well someone spoke in my ear.

Church and state cartoons.

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist."
-- Archbishop Helder Camara

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

-- Carl Sagan

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.
-- Julian Ruck

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran, followed by the final battle: the battle of Armageddon . . . . The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. The best is yet to be."
-- Televangelist and McCain endorser John Hagee

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we’re going?
-- Anonymous

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages—as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
-- Edward Abbey

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal

Tags: religion, humour, comic

Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:15:33 GMT

clipped by: abramsv
clipper's remarks: something that I definitely did not suspect... Hard to believe, but it's true! A new evidence, statistically proven

Clip Source: thrillingwonder.blogspot.com

Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

1. BREAD IS DANGEROUS

Research on bread indicates that

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!

7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.

8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.

9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.

11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

2. WATER IS DANGEROUS

A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide."

He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.

* and only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.

Tags: humor, food

Pinch Your Nose and Lose Weight

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:36:18 GMT

clipped by: aliciaf
clipper's remarks: Quite interesting...and free.
And it seems like it might actually work.

Clip Source: www.thatsfit.com

Daily Fit Tip: Pinch your nose and lose weight

I just read in Men's Health magazine that if you pinch your nostrils for 10 seconds, you'll curb your cravings. Since your stomach signals hunger and your brain signals 'cravings' ... this ancient Chinese acupressure point will help you pass on the doughnuts. In all of my years teaching fitness I've never heard such a thing, but you never know. Right? At least this strategy doesn't cost anything.

I personally imagine that the act of pinching, not picking, my nose for 10 seconds on purpose would simply distract me from anything else in the world I may have been focusing on, including food. So maybe the practice will work, because it seems so silly. My only non-Chinese or ancient advice is to do it with a tissue.

Tags: health, fitness, food

What Every Man Wants for Christmas

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:49:20 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: LOL

Clip Source: boortz.com

Tags: beer, sex, food, boobs

What the World Eats : Food habits of people around the globe

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:21:11 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: This is interesting.. Go thro the facts in the site...

Clip Source: www.time.com

What the World Eats

What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet"

Clip Source: www.time.com

Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City

Clip Source: www.time.com

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily

Clip Source: www.time.com

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp

Clip Source: www.time.com

Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City

Clip Source: www.time.com

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina

Clip Source: www.time.com

Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca

Clip Source: www.time.com

China: The Dong family of Beijing

Clip Source: www.time.com

Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna

Clip Source: www.time.com

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo

Clip Source: www.time.com

Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo

Clip Source: www.time.com

United States: The Caven family of California

Clip Source: www.time.com

Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar

Clip Source: www.time.com

Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis

Clip Source: www.time.com

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village

Clip Source: www.time.com

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide

Tags: food, world

From edible to incredible

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:32:38 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Incredibly, everything you see in this image can be found in the kitchen. Photographer Carl Warner has painstakingly captured all kinds of food in a series of still lifes.

He says his 'Foodscapes' were partly inspired by healthy eating campaigns. But they have not persuaded his own children to take up the five-a-day pledge.

The Forest of Dean or the Forest of Greens? The road is paved with cumin, peas hang from broccoli trees and cauliflower clouds adorn the sky with bread for mountains.

Edible ingredients in this Italian-inspired rural scene include a lasagne cart, fields of pasta, a pine nut wall, mozzarella clouds, trees of peppers and chillies and a parmesan village.

To give a realistic three-dimensional feel to the photographs, each still life is composed on a table measuring 8ft by 4ft. The foreground is only about 2ft across.

A winter landscape for carnivores

The red sky at night in this landscape is actually made from salmon

Tags: food, art, images

Transplanted Organs "Remember" Their Donor

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:25:30 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Where do memories reside? This is so weird! It's actually pretty creepy, I reckon.

A 29-year-old lesbian and a fast food junkie received a heart from a 19-year-old woman vegetarian who was "man crazy." The recipient reported after her operation that meat made her sick and she was no longer attracted to women. If fact, she became engaged to marry a man.

The whole article is well worth the read.

Clip Source: www.med.unc.edu

Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants

theories of emotions or memories being somehow stored in the tissues of the body and later manifesting in the physical form of pain or disease. What was most striking were the numerous reports of organ transplant recipients who later experienced changes in personality traits, tastes for food, music, activities and even sexual preference. Is it possible that our memories reside deep inside our bodily cells in addition to in our minds?

propose the universal living memory hypothesis in which they believe that "all systems stored energy dynamically . . . and this information continued as a living, evolving system after the physical structure had deconstructed."

After interviewing nearly 150 heart and other organ transplant recipients, Pearsall proposes the idea that cells of living tissue have the capacity to remember.

"Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients That Parallel the Personalities of Their Donors."

The researchers reported striking parallels

Tags: donor, transplants, health, heart, memories, quantum physics

You are what your pregnant mother ate

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:38:38 GMT

clipped by: Deepti

Clip Source: www.gulfnews.com

Children whose mothers eat junk food during pregnancy and breastfeeding are more likely to overeat, choose an unhealthy diet and grow obese later in life, according to research using rats published yesterday

In the study, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, researchers took two group of pregnant rats and gave one a diet of junk food such as doughnuts, muffins and sweets and fed the other nutritional pellets. When the young rats were weaned the team found that the animals whose mothers ate junk food put on weight more quickly, had a taste for unhealthy food and gorged

"It indicates there is a fetal programming for overeating," said Neil Stickland, a researcher at the Royal Veterinary College in London

"The foetuses are getting used to this junk food during gestation,"

"We can show a direct link to what the mothers eat and how it affects the children."

Tags: pregnancy, eat, food, habits, mother, child, foetus, obesity, junk food, health

"WILL THE BANANA BECOME EXTINCT?"

Wed, 28 May 2008 11:42:45 GMT

clipped by: vk2yoc
clipper's remarks: Eat a banana now, while you still can.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Adios, Banana: Why Future Generations Will Likely Never Taste One of Our Favorite Fruits

It’s less sensational news than skyrocketing food and oil prices, but the beloved yellow banana may soon disappear forever. Bananas are even more heavily consumed in many parts of the world than rice or potatoes, but now a fungus called Panama Disease is turning them brick-red and inedible. Here’s the worst part: There is no cure for Panama Disease and it is spreading very quickly. Experts surmise that within the next three decades, the sweet and creamy food staple will be nonexistent.

“The story of how the banana rose and fell can be seen a strange parable about the corporations that increasingly dominate the world – and where they are leading us.”

Thanks to bad corporate behaviour and physical limits, we seem to be at a dead end. The only possible glimmer of hope is a genetically modified banana that can resist Panama Disease. But that is a distant prospect, and it is resisted by many people:

Ten Reasons to Throw Out Your Microwave Oven

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:30:06 GMT

clipped by: k9riley99
clipper's remarks: If the marketing world would have named these ovens Radiation Ovens instead of Microwave Ovens would I have one in my kitchen right now?

Clip Source: www.i-amperfectlyhealthy.com

Ten Reasons to Throw Out Your Microwave Oven

From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:

1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de- polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.

8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Have you tossed out your microwave oven yet?

Tags: food, health, household kitchen appliance, microwave