Everyone has 32 of them, more or less...
These grave diggers are associated with decay, disease, death, not necessarily in that order, and --yes-- I am talking about teeth.
Teeth are a bit wide of my usual mark of writer-related, copyright issues, but not so far from my occasional rants about pharmocracy and the food pyramid.
Astronauts may not have much use for teeth while they are in space. Apparently, most of their diet is designed to be "low residue", which means less poop, and it is freeze dried and designed to be reconstituted with the injection of warm water through a valve into a pouch.
Back on Earth, it
seems, that gummies are being marketed heavily, for casual chewing throughout the day: super beets, CBD,
clolestrum chewables for kids, laxative gummies, gummies for indigestion, and more.
Gummies are made of gelatin, sugar, high fructose corn syrup. Gelatin is pig or cow hooves, bones, skin, and other bits.
Why this sudden gummy craze? Do dentists need work? Is there a glut of dead farm animals, such as newborn calves?
How Gummy Candies Are Made (Shocking!)One
wonders whether the ingredients of gelatin feature in ingredients
lists. There are religions that forbid the consumption of pigs, or cows. Do religious adherents know?
Did you know that insulin was once made out of brown muck from a dog's pancreas, later it was extracted from cows and pigs, but nowadays, it can be synthesized from E-coli bacteria.
Talking
of cows and hiding their gross bits... If you don't know what colestrum
is, and that smug advertising guy gives a word salad explanation, but
does not tell you, colestrum is the thick, super fatty, first milk post partum that a new mother produces for her newborn.
So, grown men are consuming it now? And calling it Armra.
No doubt it is very thrifty to make use of skin and bones, and space-efficient to process food for astronauts and warriors on deployment.
There's an interesting book by Dr. Joel "Gator" Warsh, "Parenting At Your Child's Pace" that discusses the potential that up to 20% of the causes of autism might relate to environment and diet. And there is a documentary by Dr. Malhotra, "First Do No Pharm" which claims, among myriad things, that a poor diet drives disease (chronic disease), and that up to 60% of the calories in the Western diet come from ultra-processed foods.
The original saying (and an example of synecdoche) about "digging your grave with your teeth" referred to immoderate portion control rather than expeditious, necessary, or convenience-related dietary selections, but the point remains that while a little of what you fancy might do you good, a lot of it might not do so.
Another saying to live by (literally! and an example of a pun) might be, "The quality of life depends upon the liver", in which "liver" refers to the organ, not to the bon viveur.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
SPACE SNARK™ http://www.spacesnark.com/ http://www.rowenacherry.com
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