Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Man cannot live on Peeps alone...or can he?

Who doesn't love peeps? Sugar-coated marshmallows with cute little eyes made of icing...they're nothing and everything all at once - a bit of heaven separated from the world by a flimsy sheet of plastic wrap. I can eat about 6 little of these bundles of joy at a time, so the little bunny and ducky easter packages go rather quickly. I sat there the other day, savoring my 5th, and thought "oh crap, I bet these things are really unhealthy, so only 1 more now until next hour's portion". I went to check the package to see how badly I was clogging my arteries or contributing to Type II diabetes, causing brain cancer, etc. and to my surprise, I found the label below:WOW - these are actually healthy! There's nothing in them - it's like eating air! Pink and yellow marshmallowy air! By my calculations, humans really could live on peeps and be ok! If a serving size is 4 bunnies, and that serving size has no fat, 110 calories, barely any salt, ~28g carbs, and no cholesterol, then one on a 2,000 calorie diet could conceivably eat 80 peeps per day, and consume no fat (and get enough protein)! You could eat a peep every 10 minutes for 12 hours, with a few extras to snack on here & there. (If you happen to be on the low-carb diet, then cut back to 40 peeps per day.) The sugars aren't a big deal....I mean, the brain runs on glucose, so at least that will function if it's a peep-only diet. You might consume more sugar than usual, but doesn't that compensate for the lack of fat consumption?

1 Comments:

At 10:04 AM, Blogger Scott S said...

Yummy - I'm in favor of the Peeps diet! Might need to be supplemented with some fresh OJ every now and then for some Vitamin C, though...

 

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