Wisconsin prison guard eats big mac least once day

Wisconsin prison guard eats Big Mac @ least once / day for
40 years and has maintained weight and seems healthy
x Functional Foods:
o similar in appearance to, or may be, a conventional food
o consumed as a part of a usual diet
o demonstrated to have physiological benefits and/or reduce the
risk of chronic disease beyond basic nutritional functions
Vitamin D fortified milk (Invisible Fortification)
à Quebec: Arnold Steinberg (grocery chain owner)
combined with Charles Scriver (researcher @ McGill)
suggest adding Vitamin D to milk
o Omega-3 fatty acids added to food
x Movements:
o Freeganism (Anti-consumerism group)
Find perfectly edible food to eat from backdoors of
restaurants (also to find furnitures/objects as well)
o Rawsome Food Movement
Eats only raw foods
o Idea of Consuming Insects
~1.5 billion already eat insects as a readily source of protein
McGill Business students awarded $1mill. Hult Prize (lime
cricket chips)
x % of Household expenditures for food:
o USA/Canada: 7%
o UK: 9%
o Aussie: 11%
o Brazil: 25%
o Russia: 28%
o China: %33
o India: 35%
o Kenya: 45%
o Pakistan: 46%
x Lavoisier: investigated amount of CO
2
gas emitted as byproduct of
digestion AND confirmed conservation of mass (food and excreted
waste)

x 1910’s/1920’s: plaster of Paris (CaSO
4
) added to bread to make it
heavier and seem more expensive
x Early 1900’s: laws made in the USA because people who worked in
(Chicago’s) meatpacking industry fell into the lard vat
were not removed immediately Æ Pure Food and
Drug Act (1906)
x Enough food for everyone nowadays but two problems:
o Food Spoils (not enough effective distribution methods)
o (Third or more) 40% of food consumed by insects
x India VS N.America
o Rice: N.America eats 1/8
o Wheat: N.America eats more
o Sugars & Sweeteners: N.America eats 3x more
o Meat: N.America eats 25-30x more
o Fats & Oil: N.America eats 3x more
o Milk Products: N.America eats more
x European Union, North America, Australia, New Zealand and others
have highest protein intake
x g/capita/day of protein:
o USA: 100
o India: 50
x g/capita/day of fat
o USA: much more
o India: 50
x Cellular Bilayer
o Transporters

o Linkers
o Receptors
o Enzymes
x H
2
O content in fruits/vegetables:
o Apples:
1. Flavours
à Contains many many chemicals:
Acetone, Ethanol, Formaldehyde, Methanol,
2-Propanol etc
2. Sugar
à 6 sugar cubes, each 3g (18g total)
3. Water
à Pin pricks, vacuum dessicator Æ measure water
content: 85% H
2
O
4. Fiber
o Watermelons:
96% H
2
O
o Radishes:
98% H
2
O
x Macronutrients (with % of caloric intake):
o Fat (30%),Protein (12%),Complex Carbs (48%),Sugar (10%)
o Average Person (60kg): 440lbs of food/day (~1lb of DRY food,
with complex carbs dominating gram amounts)
o Protein: carbohydrates at 4cal/g
o Fats: 9 cal/g (cost less to store)
o Carbs: 4 cal/g
o Fiber: 2 cal/g
x Micronutrients:
o Gram category: Calcium
o Milligram category: Iron
o Microgram category: Selenium
Lesson 3 (Scientific Research and Publishing) :
Information & Facts

x 1996-2011
o ~15 million active researchers
o ~26 million publications
x Half-life of facts: time it takes for fact to CHANGE
x Popeye
o Ate spinach for strength (b/c of iron)
o 1870: German Chemist Erich von Wolf calculated 3.5mg of