I'm watching the craziest show on Discovery Health. There seem to be two experiments going on -- one where two truck drivers are given a high fiber diet to see if that changes how long it takes for food to go through their systems (as measured by how long a pill they swallow with a transmitter stays in their bodies), and another where a bunch of people live in a zoo and eat all raw fruits and vegetables, like other large primates eat. Most of the people have British accents, but the narrator is American. I think one of the truck drivers is American, too. They're driving through Austria.

Now they've replaced the transmitter pills with pill cams so we can see what's going on inside their guts.

The pill-cam shots have "Mambo Italiano" as the background music.

This show is beginning to worry me.

I need to know the name of this show -- but maybe not so I can watch it

Windsparrow I forgot to tell you that you were in my dream last night -- You worried because you wanted to get your cats into a good school. ( right like cats want to go to school)

We knew the K-bug was good -

{{gc and Josie}} but lucky new kitty

It seems that the series is called "The Truth About Food," and the episode is "How To Be Healthy."

They also had two men (British again) eat four cloves of raw garlic a day to see if it would cure their erectile dysfunction, and now they've got two ranch hands (one male, one female) in Colorado hooked up to these gauges to measure how much gas they pass. And this is all intercut with scenes of Dr. Mehmet Oz talking about how eating the right food will make you healthier.

I think this is a few different programs cut together, with the narration and the Dr. Oz segments added later.

edit: they said at the end that it's a production of the BBC and Discovery Health. Also, the group of people who ate only raw fruits/vegetables/nuts for 12 days had an average cholesterol drop of 23%.

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Re: xkcd -- warm booting != childrearing technique.

They also had two men (British again) eat four cloves of raw garlic a day to see if it would cure their erectile dysfunction

But wouldn't the aftereffects of all that raw garlic be offputting to anyone who might otherwise wish to benefit from their lack of erectile dysfunction?

Much punctuation for GC, GC's fiancee, and Josie. And also for the new kitty who will be joining the family soon. Lucky kitty.

What WS said.

GO K-BUG! So awesome!

I slept 13 hours. I guess I was sleepy.

edit: they said at the end that it's a production of the BBC and Discovery Health.

Translation: Discovery paid in advance for American distribution rights of a BBC production. (All Discovery does for these shows is record American narration and add commercial breaks.)

Kitty-ma for Josie, Pico, Taz, and their human companions.

I should go for a bike ride. Kinda don't wanna. But new bike! But gronk. Big dilemma.