As the weekend begins…..I was thinking about the possibility of a part-time gig to help my fixed income……In these days of uncertain economics many people are looking for a part-time job to supplement their existing income……you see I enjoy eating regularly…..how about you?
Remember back in the days of WW2…..the posters then all had the same message….”Uncle Sam Wants You”….well apparently he still has that desire…..
Uncle Sam wants YOU, but this time it’s the US Army Institute of Environmental Medicine looking to improve its Meals, Ready to Eat (MREs)—not to tweak the taste, but rather to improve its impact on gut health. And they’re willing to pay the 60 or so participants they find, who must be 18 to 62 and generally healthy, $200 for their suffering, the US Army reports. They’ll ultimately allow half the volunteers to eat their normal diet for a month as part of the control group, while the other half will consume nothing but water, black coffee, and MREs for three weeks (that’s right, no alcohol) and resume their normal diet for the final week. Participants will need to live close enough to the lab in Natick, Mass., to visit multiple times and provide blood, urine, and fecal samples.
“There’s a lot of interesting and new research looking at gut bacteria, and how those gut bacteria interact with the human body,” study head Dr. J. Philip Karl tells the Army Times. “We think we can manipulate the bacteria in a way that help the bacteria fight foreign pathogens—things that could cause food-borne illness, for example.” MREs must already meet several requirements, including being able to withstand dropping 1,250 feet from parachutes and surviving 3.5 years stored at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, reports CNN. And while the troops won’t necessarily detect any changes made to MREs, the adjustments could “effectively weaponize the rations for use against other digestive threats,” the Times notes. To entice volunteers, Army dietitians have crafted a recipe book for creating such culinary thrillers as “Bunker Hill Burritos” and “Fort Bliss-ful Pudding Cake.” (The Army tried a weird MRE tweak with caffeine a few years ago.)
So sports fans if you need to supplement your income then contact the government and eat yourself into a stupor…..and then there is that quality time on the throne……
Bon Apetite!
Spoiler Alert! Do NOT eat the veggie burger…it taste like sawdust…..
Interesting back story to MREs — They use “Mystery Meat.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat — it all began when the government discovered they could ship more dead cattle via rail if the bones were removed and the carcass was compacted into firmly-pressed and well-chemically-preserved units which were more or less the same size and which took approximately a uniform amount of space in the shipping containers.
Qiestion: Why are many Americans forced to have two or even the jobs to make ends meet.
That would be better than to expose yourself to all kind of tests.
Lousy pay….cost of living sucks…
Yes, that is one part!
However we have here more the sentiment we work to live, Americans live to work.
Good observations….we have to sometimes if we want the family to eat….sad is it not? chuq
LOL! I’m betting the veggie burger IS sawdust….
Hey, extra fiber that way….
gigoid
I think more like a cork…..chuq
The best way to get a part time job is to get yourself elected to Congress. Big pay, guaranteed raises, free travel and medical care, endless vacations all expenses paid and very short hours.
Cannot afford the entry fee…LOL
Yes, it is very sad! Family life is the first to suffer from it. Sad because people have no choice. Sad because Americans are pushed into guilt because the never are able to reach the idealised family life picture of Republican and fundamental Christians.
A great observation….chuq