metspitzer wrote:
>
> Anyone know an easy way to find out exactly how a smoothie stacks up
> to say a Sprite?
>
> I just made an 8oz smoothie with this:
> 3 frozen strawberries
> 1 slice pineapple
> 1 table spoon Jiff Chunky peanut butter
> less than a teaspoon Splenda
> topped it off with 2% milk
>
> It tasted too good to be healthy

Skip the peanut butter, and it would much more healthful.
Peanut butter has more aflatoxins than whole or in-shell
peanuts (so-called "table peanuts"), because it often
includes peanuts from batches that have been downgraded
for toxin-producing mold (segregation 3 peanuts) which
are then cleaned and regraded. This is completely legal.

Here's an interesting table from
http://zoology.muohio.edu/oris/ZOO46...s/15b_462.html

Note that conditions which present multiple risks
are called out separately -- for example, the risk
from black lung disease and the risk of an accident
are listed separately for the condition of living in
a coal mine. Although the benzopyrene risk is
cited for charcoal broiled steaks, the risk from
polyaromatic hydrocarbons and polyamines from
the same steaks is not included in the table.

Note where eating peanut butter is in this list.
Frankly, I'd rather eat the charcoal broiled steak
(except that I stopped eating beef three years ago
due to questions about the occurrence of variant CJD
in the U.S. and the evasive and extraordinary response
of the Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Public Health
Service with regard to my FOIA request and its appeal).

Table 12. Risks which increase chance of death by 0.000001

Smoking 1.4 cigarettes -- Cancer, heart disease
Drinking ½ litre of wine -- Cirrhosis of the liver
Spending 1 hour in a coal mine -- Black lung disease
Spending 3 hours in a coal mine -- Accident
Living 2 days in New York or Boston -- Air pollution
Travelling 5 minutes by canoe -- Accident
Travelling 10 miles by bicycle -- Accident
Travelling 300 miles by car -- Accident
Flying 1000 miles by jet -- Accident
Flying 6000 miles by jet -- Cancer caused by
cosmic radiation
Living 2 months in Denver on vacation from
New York -- Cancer caused by cosmic radiation
Living 2 months in average stone or brick building
-- Cancer caused by natural radioactivity
One chest X-ray taken in a good hospital -- Cancer
caused by radiation
Living 2 months with a cigarette smoker -- Cancer,
heart disease
Eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter -- Liver
cancer caused by aflatoxin B
Drinking Miami drinking-water for 1 year -- Cancer
caused by chloroform
Drinking 30 12 oz. cans of diet soda -- Cancer
caused by saccharin
Living 5 years at site boundary of a typical nuclear
power plant in the open -- Cancer caused by radiation
Drinking 1000 24 oz. soft drinks from recently banned
plastic bottles -- Cancer from acrylonitrile monomer
Living 20 years near PVC plant -- Cancer caused by
vinyl chloride (1976 standard)
Living 150 years within 20 miles of a nuclear power
plant -- Cancer caused by radiation
Eating 100 charcoal broiled steaks -- Cancer from
benzopyrene
Risk of accident by living within 5 miles of a nuclear
reactor for 50 years -- Cancer caused by radiation