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is there anything you ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW?

Something that I've really been losing sleep over here:

Does anyone really eat the recommended serving size of cereal?

1/2 to 1 cup of cereal... seriously, I'd be hungry again about 2 seconds later.
 
Well Kat, I'm glad you asked.

According to Nutrition Australia, cereals fall into the "Eat Most"category when considering the Healthy Eating Pyramid:
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which means that it should form a decent chunk of your food intake for the day

When coupled with the evidence produced from scientific studies such as this one,
"The results favour the distribution of energy intake over the day as a method of improving nutritional status..."
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it becomes clear that small frequent meals throughout day, including a substantial portion of foods from the cereals group, is the healthiest way to schedule your food intake.

If you follow the serving suggestion on many popular cereals, you can also include fruits (such as fresh strawberries) as well as milk to help fill daily requirements for other sections of the food pyramid.

At the end of the day, the helpful people at Kelloggs are only trying to guide you to be as healthy as you can be.* :)









* I'm sure it has nothing to do with smaller serving sizes to make the excessive sugar and empty carbohydrate intake seem lower ;)
 
OhSoBec said:
I want to know what happens to all the socks that go missing in the wash??
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Possibly if you clean up your house/unit/backyard/front/whatever mess, you could find them (or check the rubbish) ;)
 
katmeow said:
Something that I've really been losing sleep over here:

Does anyone really eat the recommended serving size of cereal?

1/2 to 1 cup of cereal... seriously, I'd be hungry again about 2 seconds later.
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I think cereal companies - like many, many other food manufacturers - have cottoned onto the scam of making "recommended serving sizes" small, so that on first glance at the nutrition panel, it appears their food has less kilojoules/fat/sodium etc than they actually do. "Oh goody, it's only 4g of fat per serve!" (never mind the "average" serve is actually 2-3 times that amount).

That's my synopsis anyway.
 
Nah, that's not true, the only reason our washing machine pipe got clogged up was because that sock was too small and weak to make it to the Land Of Lonely Socks, where all the rest of them go. It's cause it was one of them little ankle socks, so it wasn't as strong as its longer brethren.

The Land Of Lonely Socks is a small island in the South Pacific full of mismatched socks, wailing and gnashing their teeth (yes, socks have teeth, deal with it) and looking for their partner. It's sad really. Sometimes fate will see fit to deliver a sock's partner to it in a later washing incident. If these socks are lucky enough to find one another on the crowded isle, they then have to hide their love from a jealous island full of socks with nothing else to live for, otherwise they get caught, pulled apart, and rewoven into scarves for metrosexuals.

What a horrible place. :(
 
OhSoBec said:
I want to know what happens to all the socks that go missing in the wash??
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i think most people were blaming pop for that one as well, so once again he has the roundabout answer
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Strawberry_lovemuffin said:
I think cereal companies - like many, many other food manufacturers - have cottoned onto the scam of making "recommended serving sizes" small, so that on first glance at the nutrition panel, it appears their food has less kilojoules/fat/sodium etc than they actually do. "Oh goody, it's only 4g of fat per serve!" (never mind the "average" serve is actually 2-3 times that amount).

That's my synopsis anyway.
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I think you're probably right.

One cup of cereal is about 4 mouthfuls... hardly filling ;)

Now... while we're tackling the big questions in life... did Heather Locklear ever appear on Melrose Place's credits as a regular character, or was she only ever a 'special guest star' despite spending seasons at a time there?
 
katmeow said:
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Speaking of Melbourne Central....I noticed something on the weekend that I would like to know the answer to.
Notice on the picture above that on the right, there is a set of red cables that reach to the top of the tower along inside of the glass. This big boom thing also appears to have a mechanism to rotate it around the inside ring of the tower. So it travels on rails in a kind of arc due to the cone shape of the tower. That's what it looks like anyway. What's it for?? Can anyone give me any possible explanations?
Please excuse my cruddy description - when you're in Melb Central next time, take a look up and you'll see what I mean.


ALSO.
How do you steer hot air balloons???????
 
^^^I'm guessing the Melbourne Central rotate-y thing would be to clean the window panes...

As far as the hot air balloons go....I'm not sure, but don't they readjust the sandbags that hang off the side to make it weigh more on one side? Can someone who has been in a hot air balloon confirm or deny?

My question is: what's the etymology of the term "to have a crush on someone"? Where did the idea come from that when you like someone it's like a crush effect?
 
Kittymeow: The only way you can control the direction of a hot air balloon is by varying your altitude to find an air current going the direction and speed that you want.

You can plan it out and have a reasonable idea of where you are going by observing wind patterns, but once you are up, you are pretty much at the mercy of Astraeus. For this reason, landing sites for hot air balloons are rarely chosen more than a few minutes before touchdown.

Raz, this probably won't be a satisfying answer for you, but it's all I could find.
Sense of "person one is infatuated with" is first recorded 1884; to have a crush on is from 1913.
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From here

There is also a bit more of the history of it here, but it still doesn't really explain where the term came from.
 
I blame my Dad for building me with an inability to just accept things without understanding them. :)

I also blame him for my tendency to horde stuff I don't need just because it could conceivably be useful to someone, somewhere, sometime. 8(
 
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