Plastic surgeons take note - buxom Mexican actress Salma Hayek has found a way, other than implanting silicone or saline at great expense, to make her tits bigger.She was a “skinny tomboy” until she went to a church where there was meant to be a cooperative saint that did a lot of miracles. She put her hands in the holey water and prayed to Jesus to give her some boobs (I have never heard it discussed, but do you think Jesus was a boob man?).

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Any way, lo and behold, she has a famous pair of knockers now.

It’s always irritated me that people have this idea that those nasty little boxes or bottles or packs of juice are so healthy, not like that awful unhealthy soda.

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I’m prompted to write this now because Consumer Reports tested 31 popular grocery brand juices and found a lot of arsenic and lead in quite a lot of them.

Arsenic causes cancer amongst other things. Lead poisons nervous systems - especially ones that are developing, so has a particular effect on kids (who are the main consumers of juice of course).

And the Sugar

But let us not also overlook the sugar issue. There seems to be this idea that because juice comes from something “natural” that it must be OK.

Well, sugar comes from sugar beet or sugar cane, both of which are “natural” - or that “high fructose corn syrup” (which is to be sanitized by renaming it.)

And for comparison 8 oz of Coke contains 26g of sugar. 8 oz of orange juice contains 24 - not a very significant difference.

Other reports from the Internet are that a 16 oz bottle of apple juice has 56g sugar - so 8 oz has 28g - more than the Coke. Twelve ounces of grape soda has 159 calories. Same quantity of grape juice has 228 calories.

CBS News reports that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no juice before age 6 months. And then just 4-6 oz per day up to age six - but how many parents are filling their kids sippy cups with all kinds of juice?

The $10 billion juice industry isn’t happy with the restrictive advice - surprise surprise. CBS reported “Carol Freysinger, executive director of the Juice Products Association  . . .is critical of doctors, telling parents to eliminate juice, saying it gives a bad name to a healthy beverage and could prevent people from getting important nutrients juice offers”.

Despite the guidelines, 60 percent of 1-year-olds drink juice, averaging 11½ ounces a day, according to 2002 USDA data. That’s up from 57 percent less than a decade before reports CBS.

If you want to get a good feel for how much sugar is in these drinks, take a look at Marshall Brain’s Science of the Brain video on U-Tube urging you to add the equivalent amount of sugar (7 ½ teaspoonfuls) to an 8 oz glass of water.

 Anyone familiar with P.G. Wodhous’ stories of Jeeves will know that when Berty Wooster had some particularly tricky problem, he would tell Jeeves to go eat kippers.

Incidently, note Dr House in his former incarnation

Now anyone who knows what’s good will eat kippers for their own sake - and not those nasty leathery “Kipper Fillets” you get in a tin from Wegmans or wherever. The succulent, moist real thing from the fishmonger in Essex Road just down from Cross Street - oh but damn, I’m forgetting, you have to go to London for that.

But the idea is that fish is good for your cognition (not just heavy drinking as in my post Alcohol for Your Heart Brain and Pecker).

Cyrus Raji from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center reported to Web.MD that 70 year olds eating one fish serving a week had bigger brains and more grey matter, and of particular interest had a reduced rate of Alzheimer’s and dementia, after 10 yrs, than their non-fishy counterparts.