MooPig Cage Match #42.1 :: "Aspartame vs Splenda"

Aspartame vs. Splenda: Which Is Worse for You? / Nutrition / Healthy Eating:

"Negative Side Effects of Aspartame"

"First approved by the FDA in 1980, aspartame was designed as a low-calorie sugar substitute to help you cut calories while still sweetening your foods and beverages. However, shortly after being released, a flood of complaints about aspartame came in. Aspartame has been shown to cause headaches, nausea and even seizures in some people. Further studies on aspartame have also indicated that it could cause you to go blind in one or both of your eyes, suffer from heart palpitations and even become depressed or go throughout extreme bouts of anxiety. Further, aspartame is known to cause a variety of issues in your brain. These are just some of the negative side effects of aspartame."

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"Negative Side Effects of Splenda [Sucralose]"

"Splenda was created as a no-calorie artificial sweetener that was supposed to help you cut sugar out of your diet altogether. Studies have been done on Splenda to show that it may not be all its cracked up to be, either. For example, Splenda is made by using chlorine. While there are only small traces of chlorine found in Splenda, some studies have suggested that this could be harmful to the body if you use it regularly for a long period of time. It can also cause weight gain by tricking your body when you eat foods and drink beverages that contain Splenda in them. It tricks your body into thinking you're not full when you really are and, as a result, you overeat. Some other studies have suggested that aggression in young children may be the result of them eating and drinking Splenda. Because of these side effects, Splenda has also gotten a bad name."

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CONCLUSION
Without access to primary research documents, this cage match is a draw. Both sweeteners "appear" to be dangerous to the human body. They both inhibit and thwart the body's metabolism, but so does regular refined sugar.

MooPig Wisdom reserves the right to not be responsible for irony of this subject. "Cage Match" is an invention of Pribek.net HERE, titled: Friday Night Cage Match/ Fondue Party/ Evolving Conversation/ Dancing About Architecture/

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http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/aspartame-vs-splenda-which-is-worse-for-you.html#b
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/12/03/sucralose-dangers.aspx
http://bestmeal.info/food/aspartame.shtml
http://blessedmommy.hubpages.com/hub/Is-Splenda-a-Healthy-Alternative-to-Aspartame--Learn-the-Facts
http://www.drozfans.com/dr-oz-diet/dr-oz-sugar-substitutes-aspartame-vs-saccharin-vs-sucralose/
http://www.3fatchicks.com/splenda-sucralose-vs-aspartame-which-is-worse/
http://pribek.net/2013/01/18/friday-night-cage-matchfondue-partyevolving-conversationdancing-about-architecture-vol-150/

MooPig Water Department :: "Potentially Drinkable Water"

Thirsty?
Conjoined articles by Pat Darnell  |  June 9, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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Pretty soon we will have to book a flight to Mars to get a drink of fresh, unadulterated, water.

Recently on Mars, the ten year old mission record breaking NASA's Opportunity, discovered what "Scientists believe ... a lot of water once flowed through these rocks through some sort of fracture, leaving an unusually high concentration of clay. (Agence France Presse. Jun. 8, 2013. LINK)"

In a temperate climate, on Earth, adequate intake of water for males is about 13 cups, and for females it is about 9 cups a day. Water makes up 60% of the adult's body weight. To keep your eyes, ears, and, throat moist, like they are supposed to be, requires adequate intake.

So at an average of 10.5 cups per human times 7 billion, ... [cursor blink, blink, |...|...|...] ... That's 73500000000 cups of water a day across Earth.

A note from USGS web page: "...Data compilation for the report Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2010 had a delayed start in Fall 2011. Report completion and data availability are not expected until 2014. ... "

Potentially Drinkable Water Found On Mars - Business Insider: ""This is powerful evidence that water interacted with this rock and changed its chemistry, changed its mineralogy in a dramatic way," said principal investigator Steve Squyres of Cornell University. He described the research as "some of the most important" of the decade-long mission because it showcases a very different chemistry than most of the previous discoveries about water on Mars, which is now quite dry."

It makes evidence for the argument that there was water on Mars with balanced ph, "water that you could drink" about a billion years ago. But from this rock formation Opportunity has found "prebiotic" water, moisture that could support life forms.

"Opportunity and its twin rover Spirit launched in 2003 and landed in January 2004 for what was initially meant to be a three-month exploration. Both discovered evidence of wet environments on ancient Mars. (Agence France Presse. Jun. 8, 2013. LINK) ..."

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CONCLUSION
No water; no life.

The most pristine body of water on Earth is a lake in Australia. Scientists claim it is untouched by climate change for the last 7500 years. (Weather Channel. Jun 5, 2013. LINK)

" ... Blue Lake on Stradbroke Island, which lies off the south Queensland coast of Australia  ... The water here is so pure that the bottom of the nearly 33-ft.-deep lake is visible from the surface. ... "

Earth's population would drink that lake dry in one day, okay maybe in a week ... but you get the drift. Again, no water; no life.

___________________Reference
http://www.businessinsider.com/potentially-drinkable-water-found-on-mars-2013-6
https://www.google.com/search?q=water+supply%2C+infrastructure&rlz=1C1PRFB_en&oq=water+supply%2C+infrastructure&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62.17350j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Hy-La/Infrastructure-Water-Supply.html
http://water.epa.gov/scitech/climatechange/Infrastructure.cfm
http://www.businessinsider.com/potentially-drinkable-water-found-on-mars-2013-6
http://water.usgs.gov/watuse/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/water/NU00283
http://www.weather.com/news/science/nature/worlds-only-lake-untouched-climate-change-20130605

I think it's the Water

You are what you Drink
by Pat Darnell

Sometimes I have to remind myself where I live. If I lived anywhere other than central Texas, I would be harassed about water, utilities, energy, state taxes and weather: just about everything that I take for granted in Brazos Valley.

Not everyone has the leisure to expect better times ahead. Brazos Valley will never be out of water. Heck, Texas will be always clean and a lush place, and hydrated with cool clear water until the end of mankind.

My Dad is 85 today. He is from Sweetwater, Texas. Growing up he was treated to mineral water straight from the under-ground aquifers of this wondrous state. He moved his family around a little bit, but most of his years have been in Texas.

Testament to Texas sweet water, Dad is what he drinks. Today still, his favorite drink is a Bourbon and branch-water. His favorite pastime is cogitating, and speculating. He is past President's Cup champion with a 12 handicap. He has started yet another business enterprise.

And his favorite girl is his wife who graciously gave him all those who followed in the stream of life.

Now it remains true: blood is thicker than water, but you need good water to give your livestock so we can change water into good nourishing blood. And I believe that is the secret to long lives and sunny dispositions of octogenarians of Texas.