Good morning and Happy day, it’s FRIDAY!!!! The birds are, well sleeping.. Because it’s early and too early for the early bird to snatch the worm from it’s lavish night out on the.. grass. So what’s your plans for this weekend? Mine are traveling to Portland to watch Mandy and the rest of the Lady Comet’s play in the Portland invitation Softball Tournament. It’s a one day even and the weather prognosticators are saying marvelous, just marvelous skies, barely a cloud and sun shiny day ahead. Yeah, I am with you in a bugs ear… So what ever your plans are include with it some fruit.. Oh Yeah fruit is good for you and now researchers say having a cocktail that is fruity doubles the fruit nutrients.. I am not making this up… Here’s the story: A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, U.S. and Thai researchers said on Thursday. Adding ethanol —(now isn’t that the stuff they wanted us to run our cars with??) the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits (not the ghostly images often found in old farm houses, vacant buildings and Grandma’s old blue dress) — boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, (sise note here, blackberries stain, somewhat of that forehead mark that used to drive me nuts on Mikhail Gorbachev) the researchers found. Any colored fruit might be made even more healthful with the addition of a splash of alcohol, (hmmm, makes drinking healthier?) they report in the J Dr. Korakot Chanjirakul (that is a name I could not soon say very fast, or better yet not soon say at all) and colleagues at Kasetsart University in Thailand and scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture stumbled upon their finding unexpectedly. (You know, just thinking that they stumbled upon it leads me to think somehow these guys were plastered drunk and that this might be more hooey then we know)
They were exploring ways to help keep strawberries fresh during storage. Treating the berries with alcohol increased in antioxidant capacity and free radical scavenging activity, (this is right up the alley of my dear friend Gypsy from Cheyenne, Wyoming she is a free Radical I think..) they found. Any colored fruit or vegetable is rich in antioxidants, which are chemicals that can cancel out the cell-damaging effects of compounds called free radicals. Berries, for instance, contain compounds known as polyphenols and anthocyanins. (Although I am not sure Gypsy is compounded in anything) People who eat more of these fruits and vegetables have a documented lower risk of cancer, heart disease and some neurological diseases. The study did not address whether adding a little cocktail umbrella enhanced the effects. Well I got thru that… I need to leave the commenting to the experts, and pour myself a fruity little cocktail. Anyway in the words of Pork Pig stuttered “ ba-deep, badeep, badeep ttthat’s all folks!” Have a wonderful weekend in what ever you do, and what ever you do have fun doing it.
A huge hug and a ton of pats. (I am a patting kinda guy I would have made a wonderful football coach…ewwww that was gay..)
Mart
