Asha Anujeeva

I was reading a BBC.com website news story today about how 48% of the world’s primate species are facing extinction.  The article explains that a large reason for that was the deforestation of the world; people are cutting down and/or burning the forests that the primates live in.  That was depressing news.  But what really surprised me was to read in the article that the extinction is being exacerbated by hunters who are hunting the primates for food!  I did not realize that people considered monkeys as edible!  I don’t know why, I just never really thought people would eat monkeys.  That makes me especially sad, since I consider primates to be so closely related to humans that it almost seems cannibalistic to eat them!

Tonight we are going to eat out at the Golden Corral.  We are celebrating my sister’s wedding anniversary, so we are joining several other family members there.  I like the Golden Corral; it is an all you can eat buffet with the best tasting yeast rolls I’ve ever tasted in my life!  I sneak a zipper storage bag into my oversized purse that I bring just so I can bring the leftover yeast rolls home to eat later!  They are the best!  And I really like their mashed potatoes and their macaroni and cheese, too.  Oh, and I love hush puppies!  I’d really like to eat there EVERY DAY!  Their salad bar and dessert bar is terrific, I like to eat a little taste of everything!

I was reading that researchers have determined that eating watermelon can have a similar effect on the human body as name brand ED prescriptions do. They say you have to eat the yellow fleshed variety, and eat six cups of it, but that would do it!  Of course, you’d be so busy running the bathroom to relieve your bladder that the whole pleasure part would be pretty limited!  Watermelon is a diuretic and has been used homeopathically to help people with kidney problems.  The same chemical is found in cucumbers and cantaloupe, but at a much lower level.  And, eating that much watermelon would cause havoc with blood sugar levels, so I guess the men should stick with ED prescriptions for now, and just eat a little bit of watermelon for the other healthy benefits that eating fruit produces.

I didn’t sleep well last night; I only got six hours of sleep.  Then I have had a really busy day.  I’m tired and cranky, I have a headache and I don’t want to cook supper tonight.  My honey just got home and said “what’s for supper?”  I asked him to please cook up some quick steak and cheese sub sandwiches for us to eat.  I really like them, those frozen thin sandwich steaks.  They cook up quick and easy and are really yummy!  So, he is cooking supper right this minute, while I’m typing!  We’ll be having chips to eat with dinner and my tummy will feel so much happier; when I come back to the computer I’ll probably be in such a better mood!

I was delighted to read on the health.msn.com website that researchers now say that full fat chees is good for you!  They say that it does NOT raise cholesterol levels, and actually helps dieters to lose weight!  That is really good news because I love cheese!  I have tried the low-fat stuff and I don’t like it – it has no flavor (except for cream chees, which is yummy!)  So I will no longer avoid cheese (I HAVE been avoiding cheese!) and can start buying it (and snacking on it!) on a regular basis again!