America's Most Planted

Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the health email that goes harder than a football dad with Jello Shots for the table at Chili's. Two min. Let's go!

1. 🥦 These vegan streets. I have intel on how every protein shake at Equinox gyms is vegan and how 90%+ protein shakes at Whole Foods are vegan. I have no link, just intel and intuition. Sorry.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take. This is worrisome not because I hate the planet or the animals or the soil or whatever. It's worrisome because these institutions (one owned by Amazon lol) have just decided - with very thin science backing them - that vegan = healthy. No room for nuance, amigos. Get on the vegan boat or drown to death. Feels a little psyop to me. Were the clean dairy-based options really underselling? Doubt it. Increasingly, these places are not for normal people trying to stay fit and healthy and wealthy - they're engineered for Google employees in shorts.

2. 🌱 America's Most Planted. A little riff on the Madvillain classic. Ok, so plants are in. And aside from them becoming a millennial Brooklynite meme too good to be true, this is a good thing. Indoor plants look great, clean the air, and lift your mood. The Snake Plant (also known as the "Mother-in-Law’s Tongue"), for one, is an A+ air purifier. It removes pollutants like smoke, fuel fumes, and paint fumes from the air, all while converting carbon dioxide into oxygen.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take. If you got some cash stored, get a bonsai tree. Those things are sick. Some of them are hundreds of years old. One time, an 800 year old bonsai was sold in Japan for $1.3 million. Can you smoke it and date it and play tennis against it, too? Lots of BS self-care shills out there right now - the plant is not one of them.

3. 🍭 No acquittals for Skittles. According to a consumer group suing Mars (maker of rainbow candy Skittles), rainbows taste like toxins. That toxin is called titanium dioxide, which the group claims can change DNA. Further: "According to the lawsuit, titanium dioxide is used in paint, adhesives, plastics and roofing materials, and can cause DNA, brain and organ damage, and well as lesions in the liver and kidneys." Yikes.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take. In the same vein as Uncle Frank from "Home Alone 2": easy on the Skittles kid, the rubber sheets are packed. As I've said a trillion times, if you are over the age of 16 and need candy, reach for Peanut M&M's. The choicest of choices!

4. 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. You can be a child prodigy with mental illness who works like a dog, like Tiger. Or you can be a chain-smoking booze-hound prince with unrivaled mental game, like Daly. Choose your fighter, friend.

How about them Apples? Hit me with any comments or questions. Love hearing from you folks.

Your friend,

Andrew🍎

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