Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

I don't know how many people have heard about this study, which seems to point to diet soda actually being a marker for weight gain and obesity.

Kind of interesting, and I get what they're saying, and obviously the study doesn't lie but I just hope people don't make too direct of a connection. It's not like diet soda secretly has calories in it, but something else you're doing maybe because of the soda or maybe not may be leading to weight gain. Anyway, but this part of it annoys me:

"People think they can just fool the body. But maybe the body isn't fooled," she says. "If you are not giving your body those calories you promised it, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. Some soft drink studies do suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite."

Yeah but I'm not trying to "fool" my body lady, I'm trying to drink something with caffeine that doesn't have 150 calories a glass.

All I can say for my experience with diet soda is that when I switched from regular to diet I immediately lost 10 pounds which I've relatively kept off since then. (I say relatively because when I do other bad things like eat lots of fried foods and cookies I obviously gain weight but that's unrelated to the diet soda.)

By the way, I'm not trying to make a post that's all about dieting and pounds and calories because I'm so totally not someone who enjoys talking about that shit, I just find the study interesting because I've heard some scuttlebut over the last year or so that diet soda makes people gain weight and I found it hard to believe.

In case you were considering eating the new Steakhouse Burger at Burger King on purpose, here are the nutrition facts folks:

Calories: 950
Calories from fat: 540
Total fat: 59 grams
Saturated fat: 21 grams
Trans fat: 2.5 grams
Cholesterol: 140 mg
Sodium: 1950 mg
Total carbs: 55 grams

Yes, it deserves an all caps headline.

Papa John's delivers there.

Holy crap, if you haven't had Papa John's pizza and breadsticks with garlic dipping sauce, you haven't lived, and I feel very sad for you my friend.

I almost burst a blood vessel when I saw a Papa John's delivery guy at the building next door walking home one night. There's one in the city that delivers to our neighborhood!

In the past, our closest was one in Somerville which we could only get when we had a rental car or Zipcar for some reason.

By the way, yes, of course we got it delivered pretty much the next day after making this discovery!

That's all.

...you can't stop.

From:   Melissa Aouci  
Sent:   Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:16 PM
To: Jennifer Martinelli
Subject:    RE: Once you pop

Dear Consumer;

That is our master plan. Soon we hope to take over 
the world. We already have your President, the rest 
of the world leaders will fall like dominoes.

Ever your master,
Pringles

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From:   Jennifer Martinelli  
Sent:   Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:05 PM
To: Melissa Aouci
Subject:    Once you pop

Dear Pringles Select,

Why can I not stop eating you until I have finished 
an entire bag in less than an hour? Are you laced 
with crack?

Your friend, 
Jenn

P.S. Oops, I think you should change your serving 
size due to the above-mentioned reason. Your calories 
would thenceforth be not 150 but 900 and your calories 
from fat not 80 but 480. That might slow me down next 
time.

They are talking about some survey about Americans' favorite fast food or something and they just said that Chick-fil-A won "best chicken". The host then said, "Chick-what?" and the guest said, "Yeah, I know, I didn't know how to pronounce it either when I first saw it."

I'm very sad for you both that you've never had Chick-fil-A because it is in fact the best chicken sandwich EVER.

This must have been what I was listening to.

This is pretty interesting actually.

In light of this, have some Hostess cupcakes!

Do you know what I have in the freezer at my office?

I have these. And they are awesome.

I'm listening to this on NPR and I feel like I'm an alien or something.

The problem I'm having is that the host of the show is acting all surprised at the fact that junk food is cheaper than fresh healthy food.

Seriously, people don't know that the cheap food is the worse food in most or many cases? I mean, you don't know that a twinkie is cheaper than a bunch of carrots? Is there someone out there (granted, I'm talking about people who actually do their own shopping, not someone with a kitchen staff or anything) who doesn't know that fruit is more expensive than chips? Or that fresh bread is more expensive than preservative-filled bread?

Sometimes I feel like I'm in the secret know of things that I thought were obvious, and other people are just discovering them. It makes me feel like I'm from another universe or something.