Cheddar, Cow's Milk & Cutting your calories 🧀
This Week in Review☕: The average person eats 42 lbs of cheese per year | Google to possibly pay $100 billion in damages | How food is linked to aging | Starbucks new CEO takes the reigns | The Royals
Quick Bites:
Food 🧀 : Parmesan, Feta, Ricotta, Mozzarella, Pepperjack, Burrata.. People want more cheese!
The average American eats 42 pounds of cheese every year- more than double what they did in the 1970s, Bloomberg reports.
God bless Camembert bc this is gouda news! Infact this is Grate news! We would go emMENTAL without cheese and We don't give EDAM who knows it either 🧀👌😌🖕🏻
Sales of butter and yoghurt have sustained the dairy market despite the vegan industry's massive PR machine that attacks ANYONE not living off soy and seitan 😡
Also, let's be honest- alternatives like margarine are ONE molecule away from tasting like acrylic.. 🤢
However, the main driver of dairy's survival is Cheese. The per capita cheese consumption has more than doubled since the government began keeping track in 1975- more than all the butter, ice cream and yogurt combined.
Dairy producers are betting as much as $4 billion on this growing trend.
Cheese manufacturers account for more than half of the $8 billion in US dairy-product projects scheduled to come online from 2023 to 2026, according to the International Dairy Foods Association.
The cheese investments have been a huge relief to a dairy sector that has been struggling with a sharp decline in demand for plain old cows milk. 🥛
Demand for alternatives like almond and oat milk have skyrocketed- a concern that doesn’t really affect cheese.
Plant-based cheeses are still being sold on supermarket shelves but haven't really taken off because they can’t match the texture, consistency and taste of the real thing, Bloomberg reports.
Our Thoughts💡: Writing about all this deliciousness.. 🤤
Got us craving a classic grilled cheese with buttered Texas toast, mild provolone and cheddar 🥪🥪. Oh and a hot tomato soup with dill pickles and homemade french fries 🍜😍
Big Tech 📱 : Google is in hot water again as it faces another antitrust trial.
Background💡: Google already lost a major case last month when a judge ruled it had a monopoly in online search- a privilege they have enjoyed for YEARS.
We're assuming none of you use Yahoo, Yandex or DuckDuckGo- So, while there is choice and we're all for healthy competition, the last decade hasn't been very healthy, has it? 🤔
Key Highlights, reported by The NY Times:
💡Google is currently facing allegations of its $200 billion ad tech business
💡Regulators claims that Google unfairly controls multiple aspects of the ad market- buying, selling, and ad exchanges- leading to higher prices and zero-to-none competition
💡While the department has also sued Apple, Google is so far the only company to land in federal court
💡Google could be hit with class-action lawsuits from advertisers seeking as much as $100 billion in damages if the Justice Department is successful.
💡If the DOJ wins, the government could force Google to break up its ad tech suite leading to a partial break up of the company
💡This would mark a historic shift in the online advertising landscape
Our Thoughts💡:
Things we did NOT expect on our bingo card this year
Netflix stopping password sharing
Google losing monopoly on search
Google possibly losing monopoly on ads
Twitter increasing the character-limit
Apple charging us 2k for iPhone 16 with ZERO effing updates
Trump possibly becoming President
Emily in Paris S4 ending
And its ONLY September 🤯🤯
Health 🥗: Could eating less help you live longer?
A new study found that Calorie restriction increases longevity, according to The NY Times.
A new study ALSO found that if you cut your calorie intake by 25% and only eat bland shit like arugula and beans, you can eliminate whatever little shred of a will to live you have left..
The study also proved that eating less beat intermittent fasting for weight loss.
Umm "not eating 10 donuts" beats "eating 10 donuts and then starving for a few hours". Nothing new here innit 🤔
Calorie restriction forces the body to rely on fuel sources other than glucose, which is beneficial for metabolic health and, ultimately, longevity.
Several researchers pointed to a process known as "autophagy" where the body eats up negative cells and uses them for energy.
This helps cells function better and lowers the risk of several age-related diseases.
Another explanation involves the fact that, in both humans and animals, eating fewer calories slows down metabolism, The NY Times.
It’s possible that “the less you have to get your body to metabolize, the longer it can live,” said Dr. Kim Huffman, an associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine who has studied calorie restriction in people.
“You know, just slow the wheels down and the tires will last longer.”
Our Thoughts💡: Eating is not complicated guys. Humans did it perfectly well for centuries without a single nutritionist.
Then we tried to outsmart nature and decided that Dunkin Donuts and Taco Bell are healthier than eggs, meat, cheese and butter.. And we wonder why our generation has a global obesity epidemic! 😳
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Business ☕️ : New Starbucks CEO officially starts his job this week.
Have you ever waited 20 minutes for a basic cappuccino? Placed a mobile order but didn’t get your coffee cake + pumpkin spice latte? Had an awful experience with a rude barista? Or wondered why your local Starbucks is ALWAYS out of almond milk?!
These are some of the small (but big) problems facing Brian Niccol, the company's new CEO starting today, as one of his main tasks is to improve the customer experience.
In addition, the ex-Chipotle CEO has to deal with activist investors, operational problems and unionization efforts to bring the company back on track.
Starbucks’ sales have struggled in recent quarters due to falling demand in the US and China, its two biggest markets, CNBC reports.
He has been touring dozens of cafes already in order to "start assessing the company’s challenges and opportunities."
Niccol is Starbucks’ 4th CEO in under 3 years, a number some employees are calling “fatiguing”, per The Wall Street Journal.
The Royals 👑 : Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has said she has completed her chemotherapy and is "doing what I can to stay cancer free."
"As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment," said Kate, 42.
Since revealing her diagnosis in March, the princess has made just two public appearances, which came after she underwent major abdominal surgery shortly after Christmas.
In a highly personal video released yesterday, Kate said she is entering a "new phase of recovery with a renewed sense of hope and appreciation of life."
Worldwide, more and more people under 50 are getting the disease.
The leading causes of cancer, according to CNN:
💡Smoking: contributing to nearly 1 in 5 cancer cases and nearly a third of cancer deaths.
💡Excess body weight
💡Alcohol consumption
💡Physical inactivity
💡Diet
💡Infections such as HPV
Our Thoughts💡: Ugh all this news about smoking being the leading cause of cancer.. 🚬🚬🚬🚬
Meanwhile, all our smoker friends:
"We've decided to publicly announce that we've quit smoking cigarettes so everyone understands why we're about to get really, REALLY fat"
PS. The ONLY way you'll ever really quit is if you stop going into the store, buying a pack of cigs, putting one in your mouth and lighting it on fire 👋
Quicker Bites:
Selena Gomez is now a billionaire with a net worth of $1.3 billion; majority of her wealth is tired to ‘Rare Beauty’, her 5-year-old makeup line.
TGI Fridays acquisition called off.
Crypto-related fraud jumped by 45% last year, FBI says.
Children and teens in the US are more likely to die by guns than anything else, research shows.
Snapchat sued by New Mexico over ‘sextortion’ of kids by predators online.
Apple unveils new iPhones with built-in artificial intelligence.
Israel strikes in parts of Gaza filled with displaced people.