Aussie soldiers turn noses up at ration packs

Another gem from the Yahoo News which illuminates my email page. Making very sure I acknowledge the source here in case E. Hook’s flagrant copyright law violation accusations come daggering at me from other places as well.

so be aware that the article below is NOT mine. I did not write it. It belongs to yahoo. I make no money from putting it here. I just get some cheering up. And it tickles my sense of humour.

Saturday March 22, 01:17 PM By Nicole Butler This Easter many Australian soldiers serving in Iraq will open their ration packs with disappointment.

Forget the chocolate eggs; nutritionists say the traditional Australian army rations aren’t appetising enough.

Soldiers are refusing to eat the rations and their health and morale is suffering as a result, and the Army is spending thousands of dollars to make ration packs more appetising.

It seems hard to believe, but experts say the success of military operations is being compromised by the unpalatable ration packs given to our troops.

Australia is part of a hot region and most defence personnel are deployed to high temperature zones.

Soldiers stationed overseas are becoming sick, lethargic and they’re under-performing, because they can’t bring themselves to eat their pre-packed hot meals.

Chris Forbes-Ewan, a nutritionist with Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Tasmania, says the reason for that is pretty clear that people lose appetite in the heat.

“The current pack includes meals that need to be heated to be fully edible; main meals spaghetti bolognese and beef with noodles and sweet and sour foods and these sorts of things,” he said.

“Also freeze-dried rice and potato and onion powder.”

Giant marine life found in Antarctic sea

Friday March 21, 04:26 PM

Giant-sized snails and jellyfish have surprised researchers during a major survey of New Zealand’s Antarctic seas.

Huge sea snails, jellyfish with tentacles up to four metres long and starfish the size of big food platters were some of the species found during research vessel Tangaroa’s 50-day, 3,200km voyage in the Ross Sea, New Zealand marine scientist Don Robertson said.

THE STINGRAYS WAKE

Saturday March 22, 07:59 AM

Stingray ’shattered victim’s skull’

A boater who was killed when a stingray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal’s poisonous barb, a medical examiner said.

Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, of Pigeon, Michigan, was in the front of a boat travelling at 40 km/h on Thursday when a 34 kg spotted eagle ray leapt from the water and hit her in a freak collision.

NB. Saw 6 stingrays in Urunga Lagoon only a few weeks ago. What does this mean ?

DANGERS OF OBESITY

Obese relative ‘may have crushed boy’

A two-year-old boy who died with a fractured skull may have been accidentally crushed by a morbidly obese relative, authorities say.