Cold Water Shaving
After reading about shaving with cold water, I’ve tried it several times over the last few days. It’s a much better experience for me.
Shaving with cold water seems like a hardship, a practice that must be endured in Spartan living conditions. After all, it’s wet shaving doctrine that a man must always shave with hot water. It not only feels nice, it softens the beard and supposedly gives you a more comfortable shave.
But what if that advice is wrong? What if it’s actually better to shave with cold water…?
Well, according to a bunch of authors in the 19th century, cold water shaving is indeed superior to shaving with hot water.
The biggest improvements for me were:
- Much easier to cut my hair. I have a smoother shave with one pass than I was getting with two.
- Getting fewer nicks and cuts on my face.
I have to admit, I’m sold.
Family Pictures Fall 2009
A few months ago, we dragged grandma up into the mountains and took some family pictures. We took a lot of pictures, but very few seemed to turn out. Now that we’re finally finished sifting and editing, I’ve uploaded some of the best ones.
We got some really good pictures of Grandma with the grandkids.
And Cheryl always seems photogenic.
The Cheerios Sugar Factor
Like many people, I often eat cereal for breakfast. When my wife went on a no-sugar diet a while back, it wreaked havoc on our cereal eating habit because, you see, most breakfast cereals are stuffed with sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
Reading the nutrition labels, however, taught me something interesting: Cheerios has by far the lowest sugar content of any cereal we eat. While shopping, I found myself in disbelief, telling random people in the super market, “Do you know this stuff has twelve times as much sugar as Cheerios?” I started calling it the Cheerios Factor.
To give you an idea, here is a list of some breakfast cereals and their sugar content. Full nutrition information is available online from General Mills, Kellog’s and Quaker. However, Post prefers to summarize it for you.
| Cereal | Serving Size | Sugar | Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Jacks | 28g | 12g | 12.0x |
| Froot Loops | 29g | 12g | 11.6x |
| Lucky Charms | 27g | 11g | 11.4x |
| Frosted Flakes | 30g | 11g | 10.3x |
| Golden Grahms | 31g | 11g | 9.9x |
| Cinnamon Toast Crunch | 31g | 10g | 9.0x |
| Honey Nut Cheerios | 28g | 9g | 9.0x |
| Raisin Bran | 59g | 19g | 9.0x |
| Cinnamon Life | 32g | 8g | 7.0x |
| Honey Bunches of Oats | 30g | 7g | 6.5x |
| Multigrain Cheerios | 27g | 6g | 6.2x |
| Frosted Mini Wheats | 51g | 10g | 5.5x |
| Life | 32g | 6g | 5.3x |
| Total | 30g | 5g | 4.7x |
| Wheaties | 27g | 4g | 4.1x |
| Special K | 31g | 4g | 3.6x |
| Rice Krispies | 33g | 4g | 3.4x |
| Corn Flakes | 28g | 3g | 3.0x |
| Kix | 30g | 3g | 2.8x |
| Corn Chex | 31g | 3g | 2.7x |
| Rice Chex | 27g | 2g | 2.1x |
| Grape-Nuts | 58g | 4g | 1.9x |
| Cheerios | 28g | 1g | 1.0x |
| Fiber One | 30g | 0g | None |
Yes, Cheerios has half the sugar of Grape-Nuts. The only cereal I’ve found that beats Cheerios at its own game is Fiber One, which I’ve never actually eaten.
