Word: junked
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...beneficial Omega-3s in addition to the cholesterol and saturated fats that are associated with pork. Omega-3s are normally found in oily fish, such as salmon and tuna, but some concerns surround high mercury and lead levels in fish. “People can continue to eat their junk food,” said Alexander Leaf, an emeritus professor of clinical medicine at Harvard. “You won’t have to change your diet, but you will be getting what you need.” A number of obstacles remain before the research can move from...
...will look like at age 40 if they keep gorging on sugar and fried food. In the pilot, the parents watch, horrified, as their three sons morph and swell into pallid, pimply, ill-groomed tubs who look vaguely like serial killers. For some reason, the computer model assumes that junk food motivates men to grow bad facial hair...
...culinary pairings devised by man--tomatoes with basil, foie gras with truffles, french fries with ketchup--is there any more perfect than TV with junk food? The Super Bowl and chili! Cartoons and Froot Loops! The Survivor finale and a pitcher of mojitos! Like hot dogs at the ballpark, those sugary, fatty, liver- and heart-hostile delights simply taste better bathed in a glow of blue light. TV is not just a medium. It is a seasoning, a condiment, a secret sauce...
...well for polar bears or Inuits, but it could be a boon for shipping and transportation entrepreneurs, and none has stepped into the icy breach with more foresight than Pat Broe, a Denver-based real-estate and railroad magnate. The press-shy Broe, 58, who describes himself as a junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token sum of roughly $8, the port...
...history in Hong Kong last month, you could visit an exhibition whose centerpiece was a old, bleached, shaped piece of wood, 11 m long. To be honest, it didn't look much. But it told a tale. For the wood was a rudder post from a huge Chinese junk built around the time, nearly 600 years ago, when the Chinese Muslim eunuch admiral Zheng He embarked on seven epic voyages that took him to southeast Asia and the shores of India, Arabia, and Africa, trading for spices and fabrics, livestock and raw materials...