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 read someplace to combat the negative effects of prolonged sitting to take a break every 30 minutes and do two minutes of brisk walking along with 15 chair squats.
I take frequent walk breaks but no squats.
I try to do that little burst of exercise, and also focus my eyes in the distance to relax the muscles in my lens.
I rarely suffer from screen induced eye strain because I also focus my eyes on a distant object to relax my eye muscles. Quite effective.
How often do you focus your eyes on a distant object? I suffer from eyestrain a lot. And any tips you have I’d appreciate.
I’ve never counted but my educated guess is about 2-3 times an hour. I tend to daydream and peer outside my office window.