Most people eat toast or cereal for breakfast, but I’m not most people. I eat scorpions for breakfast. I know that probably sounds disgusting to you, but they’re actually pretty delicious, especially if you fry them. Anyway, this isn’t a story about how scorpions taste. This is a story about why I decided to eat scorpions in the first place. see, my brother had an accident. He was helping my dad fix the roof on our house, but then he fell. He hit his head really badly and the doctors thought he would die. But he survived. And to be honest I wasn’t sure that was a very good thing…He his head so on the ground, that he’s now completely brain damaged. It’s for me to say this, but I don’t feel safe around him. Right after it happened and he got discharged from the hospital, our parents went out to buy some groceries. They left me home alone with him, and I was listening to music in my room. Suddenly I felt something sharp on my ankle, and when I looked down, my brother was biting me!! He bit so hard, he actually drew blood. I screamed but he wouldn’t let go. I eventually had to swing by leg back and forth so that he’d stop. It was like he’d become a wild animal. I told my parents about it as soon as they got home, and they shouted at me!! They told me I was supposed to look after him and that it’s not his fault, that it’ll take time for him to go back to normal. Well, time passed, and things just got worse. I eventually installed a lock on my bedroom door because I’d woken up so many times to find him wandering into my room. It freaked me out so much!! It was so bad that my friends stopped coming over to hang out. They said my brother was terrifying. If only they knew… I’d lie in bed at night listening to him screaming and laughing and banging his fists on my wall. If I hadn’t been so afraid, I’d have felt sorry for him. But then I’d look down at my ankle and see the scar from the bite, and I realised I had to do something to protect myself. I suggested they move him to a facility for people with brain damage, and my dad said that if I didn’t up, he’d put me in a facility. Fine then. I’d only look out for myself then. If he hurt them too, then it was their fault! One day I was ‘babysitting’ him and he kept glaring at me. His eyes were rolling around and he looked like he wanted to kill me. This had to end. I tried to distract myself by watching TV and that’s when a nature documentary caught my attention. It was about scorpions, specifically bark scorpions- the most poisonous in the whole of the US. Their sting can lead to numbness and vomiting for up to 72 hours. I don’t know why, but after watching the show, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. What would it be like to be that poisonous? In that moment, I almost envied those scorpions. No-one could hurt them!! I started researching, and the next day I went out to try and find one. I’d never seen one in real life before, but I knew exactly where I could find them. The show said they liked citrus trees…and right down the road there was a citrus farm. I went there after school and asked the man who owned the farm if I could take a walk around. He seemed suspicious and asked me if I was planning on stealing his fruit? I said no, I just want to find some scorpions actually. He looked shocked!! Then he asked me to follow him. He led me to the back of a big shed and pointed towards a tank. Inside were of scorpions! I couldn’t believe it. I ran over and stuck my nose up against the glass. They looked so cool! “Can I buy some?” I asked him. “Buy?! Ha!! can have them for free. Saves me killing them later. Poisonous nasty things that they are!” he said. That day was my lucky day. He put them into a shoe box for me and told me to be really careful because if they stung me
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Funny enough, while you might think products like Grape-Nuts or Corn Flakes would offer a better alternative to more sugary breakfast cereals, at least in terms of avoiding a blood sugar spike, it should be noted that Grape-Nuts has a glycemic index of 71. (For the uninitiated, the GI is a scale showing the effect of a given food item on one’s blood sugar levels, with 100 being pure glucose.) This is surprisingly higher than such sugary cereals as Fruit Loops (about 69) and Frosted Flakes (about 55). For further shocking reference, Corn Flakes has a mean GI of about 81, and Rice Krispies are at 82, while table sugar only has a GI of 60. That said, good nutrition is a lot more complicated than just looking at a single number and there is definitely a place for food items high on the GI, particularly ones that offer other benefits like lots of fiber and micronutrients. It’s just surprising how high the vast majority of breakfast cereals, even seemingly non-sugary ones like Grape-Nuts, are on that index.
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