Does being fat give you potential energy?

Someone showed me this excerpt from an e-mail health newsletter, which doesn’t really add up, in my opinion.  Look at here:

I began studying exercise physiology and the mechanics of how a fat cell really deals with burning.  I found that a fat cell is really just a storage center for potential energy in a solid form.  That’s right, you really don’t have fat, you have POTENTIAL ENERGY.  Now doesn’t that sound better?

My research* has shown that having an abundance of fat cells gives me less energy.  And when I do exercise and get to the point of burning fat, it makes me even more tired!  Where’s all that potential energy?  I think the health expert is full of POTENTIAL CRAP.

I wonder if the writer of that got his degree at one of those non-accredited universities…

* I eat a lot.

realizing it’s Monday morning

It’s Monday morning.  The weekend is now over.  It’s five more days until the next weekend, which means most of us have to work five full days in a row.

You are coming to a sad realization.  Cancel or allow?

What would you like to pee on?

fly in urinal
How’s that for a title?  🙂

Obviously, this is a question for the guys.  There’s a place in Amsterdam that etched the image of a fly inside the urinals in its bathrooms, to make guys aim at it.  And they’ve said it really helps.  (Click on the picture for more info on that.)

Obviously a fly is not the only option for the picture.  So what other images would be good to put inside a toilet or urinal?

Can Cheetos cure headaches?

We got an e-mail from Thomas Wayne today, who has a question for our readers here.  Since there are several doctor-esque people that comment here, we decided to oblige his request.

This morning I had a headache.  I tried resting some during lunch, and dozed off for a few minutes, but my head still hurt some.  So I decided to eat.  Today’s menu consisted of a sandwich — not too exciting, right?  But there was a new bag of Cheetos in the cabinet, which I grabbed.  I opened the bag and smelled the cheesy goodness, then proceeded to eat some.  While eating, I felt better, not just from being happy because Cheetos are scrumptious, but my head wasn’t hurting as much.  So I wondered if I should just keep eating Cheetos until my head didn’t hurt anymore.  I ate quite a few Cheetos, and then my head hardly hurt at all.

Could I have stumbled onto a new cure for headaches?  Does anybody have any research or theories or hypotheses that might back this up?

Any thoughts?