True or False?

Factual Questions
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Hello Peoples,

      A few days ago I had found a statement at a web site that I was not sure was true.

See if you could figure out if this is true or false:

Does celery actually deduct calories from you instead of adding calories to you?

Or how about this one:

Does most lipstick actually contain fishscales in it?

I have no idea if these statement are true or not. Do you?

Jesse Vater

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Celery has so few calories, and the act of chewing and digesting actually burns more calories than the celery contains. Thus, it is said celery is a negative calorie food, but the net loss is small. Don’t go starting some new celery-craze diet, now!

Don’t know about the lipstick composition.

“They’re coming to take me away ha-ha, ho-ho, hee-hee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time… :)” - Napoleon IV

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Lipstick with fishscales in? As such, I doubt it. I wouldn’t be surprised, however, to learn that it generally contained some ingredient that is derived from fish. Lots of products contain ingredients derived from animal sources, whether you’d think so or not. Jello and other gelatins are derived from animal bones and hooves (mostly beef, I think). Beer is sometimes made with a coagulant called isinglass (derived from fish guts) which helps the particulates settle out. Shampoo has rendered fats in it, as well as placenta extracts.

And on and on…

A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain.

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Ok, one more time, celery does not take more energy to digest than it contains.

According to the USDA Nutrient Database,
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

Celery contains 16 calories per 100g, or about 10 calories per stalk.

Broken down further, it is,
94% water
.14% protien
3.65% carbohydrate
1.7% fiber

According to this website,
http://www1.mhv.net/~donn/calorie.html

Vigorous sex burns 3.9 calories per minite.

It seems one stalk of celery should be sufficient for nearly 3 minites of vigorous sex.

Now time to apply some logic.

Does it take you more than 3 minites to chew a stalk of celery? Is that act of chewing more tiring than vigorous sex? How many calories do you think it takes to pass 1.7g of fiber through your colon?

Conclusion,

Though celery is very low in caloric content it is not an “anti-food”.

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Sorry make that,

.7% protien
.14% fat
3.65% carbohydrate
1.7% fiber