The Beginning

It's 3 AM . I have to wake up in less than 4 hours but i can't sleep. I'm starving but i can't eat (friggin diet). And i have nothing better to do, so here i am creating a blog and posting for the first time in it .

So, welcome one and all.

speaking of diets, heres a few thoughts:

When will some a**hole come up with a pill that REALLY works on those who are trying to lose weight or at least maintain good health? I'm not asking for a magical pill that will let me poop 50 kilos of fat within a 24-hour period.I just want something that either:

a) Reduce cholesterol and trans. fat without turning my liver into a lifeless bloody pulp.

b) Vitamins that actually have the same amount of ingredients and nutritions as printed on the packaging

c) More vegetarian supplements. I don't want to consume something like "DNA" -which i found in the Nutritional Fact sheet of a supplement- and find out later it came from monkey semen.

Now, lets bash the roots of the problem:food manufacturers/fast food

The main problem lies in trans. fat, for those who don't know much about it, it clogs your blood vessels like food crumbs in a kitchen sink. here's a very interesting link that i found recently
Oreo Case

Kraft/Nabisco is a good example here, i will discuss Oreo Cookies as one of their many products( and my favorite). Before the lawsuit that was held against them in 2003, Oreo's had -and i quote- "5.5 grams of unidentified fat per one serving" (one serving = three cookies).

Well what the hell is an unidentified fat really? don't they know where it came from? is it mutated fat? did it come from outer space? the answer is no to all, it is simply translated to "This is the fat that will kill you". Kraft kindly decided later to introduce a new Oreo that had zero trans. fat.

Was a lawsuit really necessary to remind them and people all over the world? that trans fat is so bad it could cause harm over the years especially when consumed by kids? isn't it ironic that most of those products are cookies, candies and junk food that concentrates on targeting kids as their main consumers?

I'm not exactly a health freak, but when i got my cholesterol checked couple months ago, i found it was way up. it was so high my doctor didn't believe i was in my mid 20's, she thought i was chugging cooking oil by the gallon. I started dieting since then and lost 20 kilos (thats 44 lbs for those who only work with retarded units) in 2 months and still losing more! I just wish for everyone, including myself, to be more cautious about what we eat.

I guess thats enough about me, time to hit the sack and not think about food.

Until next time, eat smart and live life!
Adios.