Know Your Banana
Sorry I havent posted in awhile. I've been busier than a devil recruiting for hell.
I've also been feeling a bit down. :-/
I suspect it's the time of year. Late spring into summer. Full Blown Allergy Season! The flowers are in bloom, wreaking havoc on my nasal passages! The rugrats are let out of school and terrorizing the neighborhood (and my sanity) with their screaming and laughing and rambunctious play.
I hate this time of year.
Anyway, I am looking into natural forms of therapy to relieve my symptoms of depression. I had heard wonderful things about bananas, and how bananas can raise your level of seratonin.. the hormone that increases your sense of well being. So I immediately, and with great excitement, ran out to the grocery store to aquire a bunch and start my "feel-good-banana diet".
As customary with me, I googled "bananas" "danger", just to see what comes up. Well, get a gander at THIS: (!!!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,875612,00.html
Here is an excerpt:
"It is a freakish, doped-up, mutant clone which hasn't had sex for thousands of years - and the strain may be about to tell on the nation's fruitbowl favourite. Scientists based in France have warned that, without radical and swift action, in 10 years' time we really could have no bananas.
Two fungal diseases, Panama disease and black Sigatoka, are cutting a swath through banana plantations, just as blight once devastated potato crops. But unlike the potato, and other crops where disease-resistant strains can be bred by conventional means, making a fungus-free variety of the banana is extraordinarily difficult".
Well, isnt that wonderful? Not only are my potassium and seratonin levels in serious jeopardy, but I have already had 2 of these fungus-riddled mutant fruits!!
In addition, that's all I need.. consuming something that, like me, hasn't had sex in years. :-/
Tomorrow I will be returning these to the grocer and demand my money back!!
(L.L)
I've also been feeling a bit down. :-/
I suspect it's the time of year. Late spring into summer. Full Blown Allergy Season! The flowers are in bloom, wreaking havoc on my nasal passages! The rugrats are let out of school and terrorizing the neighborhood (and my sanity) with their screaming and laughing and rambunctious play.
I hate this time of year.
Anyway, I am looking into natural forms of therapy to relieve my symptoms of depression. I had heard wonderful things about bananas, and how bananas can raise your level of seratonin.. the hormone that increases your sense of well being. So I immediately, and with great excitement, ran out to the grocery store to aquire a bunch and start my "feel-good-banana diet".
As customary with me, I googled "bananas" "danger", just to see what comes up. Well, get a gander at THIS: (!!!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,875612,00.html
Here is an excerpt:
"It is a freakish, doped-up, mutant clone which hasn't had sex for thousands of years - and the strain may be about to tell on the nation's fruitbowl favourite. Scientists based in France have warned that, without radical and swift action, in 10 years' time we really could have no bananas.
Two fungal diseases, Panama disease and black Sigatoka, are cutting a swath through banana plantations, just as blight once devastated potato crops. But unlike the potato, and other crops where disease-resistant strains can be bred by conventional means, making a fungus-free variety of the banana is extraordinarily difficult".
Well, isnt that wonderful? Not only are my potassium and seratonin levels in serious jeopardy, but I have already had 2 of these fungus-riddled mutant fruits!!
In addition, that's all I need.. consuming something that, like me, hasn't had sex in years. :-/
Tomorrow I will be returning these to the grocer and demand my money back!!
(L.L)
posted by Debbie Downer at 8:06 PM
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