Capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers hot is an evolutionary filter designed to punish mammals and reward birds. Mammals feel it as pain because mammal digestion destroys seeds. Birds don’t have the receptor that detects it, so they eat the fruit, fly off, and deposit the seeds far from the plant from which they […]
Sugar-Free Diet Linked to Metabolic Changes “Completely removing sucrose from a low-fat diet may unexpectedly disrupt gut health and promote inflammation and metabolic dysfunction, highlighting that balanced nutrition is more important than simply eliminating sugar,” said Rasheed Ahmad, Ph.D., principal scientist and head of the Immunology & Microbiology Department at the Dasman Diabetes Institute, in […]
I seriously wonder if there are any original recipes out there. You think to yourself “Let’s make a black bean and corn thing tonight”. So you do what everyone else does and hop on the internet to find numerous recipes that are pretty much the same. Full Disclosure: This recipe is a copycat and my […]
Interesting insights from the oldest of the old. All charts are from the survey report which can downloaded here: https://www.uhc.com/content/dam/uhcdotcom/en/general/100-at-100-Final-Report-Aug2025.pdf
I was in St. Louis on business. One day these things showed up at the office. I had one (OK, two) after breakfast. Yes, they are that good. Memo to Self – Don’t get depressed that you only learned about this delicacy in your 7th decade. I wonder if they deliver to Oklahoma.
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I agree. Do you know what the territories are? The only ones I recommend are Puerto Rico Guam and Virgin Islands.
The territories are a roll over on the CDC website. Meaning if you hover you mouse cursor over the named territory the VOC statistics pop up. Was this what you are looking for?
No, what I meant was I didn’t know what the abbreviation stood for. The only ones I recognized were PR, VI, GU
MH = Marshall Islands
FM = Micronesia
MP = Northern Marianas
PW = Palau
AS = American Samoa
I cheated. When you roll over the abbreviation you get the full name spelled out.
On my iPad the name didn’t get spelled out. Maybe you have to be on an actual computer. Thank you so much. I had just looked up the Mirschel islands last week. A friend of mine had been doing volunteer work there.