Is peanuts really fatty?

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Eli

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Originally posted by: Elemental007
Originally posted by: Babbles
Yeah, they are really are pretty fat, but they have higher amounts of trans-fatty acids, aka the 'good fat'.

Unsaturated fat is better than saturated fat. Unsaturated chains have 'room' where they can chemically react and be broken down, where a saturated alkane does not.

WRONG! Trans-fatty acids are the worst type of fats you can get! Omega 3 and other oils, especially those from fish, are 'good' fats. Flaxseed oil, etc., are examples of good fats. Trans-fatty acids, such as those contained in margarine and in a lot of processed foods, are the truly evil fats in the world. Avoid them with your life!

Peanuts have no significant transfatty concentration.

I was going to comment on that, it didnt' sound right. trans-fatty acids are like, hydrogenated fats.. I don't think any natural thing has hydrogenated fats. Poly and monounsaturated fats, on the other hand....
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: Aceman
Originally posted by: Millenium
Originally posted by: JellyBaby
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Millenium
WTF is wrong with you anal bastards in this thread? Correct my grammar too. Damn Jerboy rubbed off on you people.

Assuming that you're not using the term "damn" as part of the proper noun that consists of the name of the gentleman to which you refer, you'll need a comma in there. The sentance should read "Damn, Jerboy rubbed off on you people."

nik
He's also lacking a comma between the words "grammar" and "too".

Your period should be inside your quotations marks.

No, actually, the last sentence is correctly typed. The word "too" is being brought to the attention of the reader. It is not part of a quotation.

Periods and commas go inside quotations, reguardless. Question marks and Exclaimation points can go either inside or outside to complete both the sentence and the quote.

nik
 

JellyBaby

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No I am not sure. I was simply parroting your anal retentiveness. I just can't believe we have grammar nazis with nothing better to do.
Hold yourself to a higher standard, don't just hold yourself.
 

Mill

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Originally posted by: JellyBaby
No I am not sure. I was simply parroting your anal retentiveness. I just can't believe we have grammar nazis with nothing better to do.
Hold yourself to a higher standard, don't just hold yourself.

There wasn't a higher standard involved. You were being a jackass to someone who probably doesn't speak english as a first language. Do you go around picking on special ed students because they are different?
 

Aceman

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Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Aceman
Originally posted by: Millenium
Originally posted by: JellyBaby
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Millenium
WTF is wrong with you anal bastards in this thread? Correct my grammar too. Damn Jerboy rubbed off on you people.

Assuming that you're not using the term "damn" as part of the proper noun that consists of the name of the gentleman to which you refer, you'll need a comma in there. The sentance should read "Damn, Jerboy rubbed off on you people."

nik
He's also lacking a comma between the words "grammar" and "too".

Your period should be inside your quotations marks.

No, actually, the last sentence is correctly typed. The word "too" is being brought to the attention of the reader. It is not part of a quotation.

Periods and commas go inside quotations, reguardless. Question marks and Exclaimation points can go either inside or outside to complete both the sentence and the quote.

nik


Buzzzzzzzzzzz! Wrong!


English Grammmar Rules
 

Mill

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As for periods in quotation marks, Gary was right about American and British, except that the American style puts the period inside the quotation marks. The British style, (and I am paraphrasing from Chicago Manual of Style)"strongly advocated by some American language experts," positions periods and commas in relation to the closing quotation mark the same way the American system governs the placement of question marks and exclamation points: if they belong to the quoted material, they are placed within the closing quotation. If they belong to the including sentence as a whole, they are placed after the quotation mark.

from a google search

:)
 

Aceman

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Millenium,

It's not quoted material, though. The quotation marks were being used to highlight the words. They were not used to quote material.
 

JellyBaby

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There wasn't a higher standard involved. You were being a jackass to someone who probably doesn't speak english as a first language. Do you go around picking on special ed students because they are different?
Some people are so easy. :D
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: Aceman
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Aceman
Originally posted by: Millenium
Originally posted by: JellyBaby
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Millenium
WTF is wrong with you anal bastards in this thread? Correct my grammar too. Damn Jerboy rubbed off on you people.

Assuming that you're not using the term "damn" as part of the proper noun that consists of the name of the gentleman to which you refer, you'll need a comma in there. The sentance should read "Damn, Jerboy rubbed off on you people."

nik
He's also lacking a comma between the words "grammar" and "too".

Your period should be inside your quotations marks.

No, actually, the last sentence is correctly typed. The word "too" is being brought to the attention of the reader. It is not part of a quotation.

Periods and commas go inside quotations, reguardless. Question marks and Exclaimation points can go either inside or outside to complete both the sentence and the quote.

nik


Buzzzzzzzzzzz! Wrong!


English Grammmar Rules

That's how it was when I was in highschool. Guess I need to pay attention when things change, don't I :eek:

nik
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: JellyBaby
There wasn't a higher standard involved. You were being a jackass to someone who probably doesn't speak english as a first language. Do you go around picking on special ed students because they are different?
Some people are so easy. :D

They're the only ones I beat down with baseball bats, too. That way, I don't have to run very fast to catch them.

nik
 

Pabster

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All nuts are excellent for you. Don't be scared by the "high" fat content -- most of the fat is GOOD for you. For example, Planters' regular salted peanuts have 15g of fat per serving (1 oz. is typical for nuts). But of that 15g, 12.5g are GOOD fats -- poly and (especially) monounsaturated. These fats attack saturated fat and are, again, GOOD for you.

I'm not sure where the trans-fatty acid scare came from ... nuts do not contain TFAs. Even the processed ones. Unless you're talking about nuts in candy bars or Corn Nuts or the like. Almonds, Walnuts, Peanuts, et al are all excellent sources of a number of vital minerals and vitamins, not to mention protein. They're an excellent choice for a snack.

Want the best of the nuts? Go find some macadamia nuts. Delicious and the "best" of the nuts for you, with 19g of monounsaturated fat per serving.
 

McPhreak

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I actually stuck an entire peanut in a microcentrifuge tube once and spun it at about 14k rpm to see what would happen. I think I spun out about 500microliters of oil just out of that one peanut. Certainly more oil than I ever imagined. :Q
 

Maleficus

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Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Fvcking a, not everyone is a natural born citizen who speaks/writes perfect English, give him a fvcking break. His profile says:

Xiaohu Zhang, living in British Columbia

I'm sure 99.9% of you wouldn't even come close to getting your grammer right in another language. Quit being a couple of dicks.

I'm a firm believer of "Do or do not; there is no try." He needs to get it right or pay the price.

Anyway, yes, peanuts are quite fatty.

nik

that is quite possibly one of the dumbest things i have ever heard.

do or do not; there is no try wtf!?!?!