Chemical
Wednesday November 17, 2004 - 1:28AM EDT
I was just eating a banana and was wondering what was the name of the chemical in the banana that give it its distinctive smell. That got me to thinking about chemicals. Everything we consume is made up of these chemicals. Why "chemicals" carry such a bad connotation is kind of strange. If you were to give the chemical names of all the ingredients of some "natural" food product the list would probably be just as long as any other food product. The whole natural thing is way overblown. It is just marketing gimmicks. People just need to recognize what chemicals are "good" and what are "bad". Besides, without these chemicals the food resources of the earth would never be as large as they are today and the population would never have grown to the size it is.
I ate the strangest assortment of meals today. I had Chinese buffet for lunch, which was actually pretty normal. I went there hoping to get steamed vegetables, but they didn't have any so I settle for the sauteed string beans and extracting the vegetables from the garlic chicken. Of course I had some of the pork. The second meal of the day consisted of 1/4 of a protein plus vanilla yogurt power bar, a cup of pickle slices, week old leftover chicken breast seasoned with tumeric, a bottle of water and half a pepsi. I was good though. The third meal of the day was, two bananas, some pieces of seeded rye loaf and red cream birch beer soda. I was hoping the rye loaf didn't have partially hydrogented oil in it, but it did. Ah well, those artificial trans-fatty acids haven't been conclusively connected to any health problems yet. When my Chemistry teacher explained exactly what hydrogenated things are you finnaly know why margerine stays soft all the time. It is kind of freaky... eh not really.
I really want some dates right now. I haven't had any in about a year. They are good with milk.
Clearly I haven't been working hard enough. I should be programming 20 hours a day, I only do about 6hrs. Maybe tomorrow will be better.