given two questions for each food item: (1) how often they ate that food in the preceding year (how many times per month, week, or day), and (2) how much of that food they typically ate at each sitting (portion size based on the standard serving sizes commonly consumed by Iranians...
Specifically, under pretty conservative assumptions you do much more good donating just $5/year to the Against Malaria Foundation than by avoiding dairy. How valuable is not eating dairy? The cows don't have good lives. Not as bad as farmed chickens or pigs, but still bad enough that ...
Eating too many rocks can make Gronckles overheat and also cause stomach upset, some of which can cause discomfort/pain or inability to produce lava blasts. Their fire is also dependent on the type of rocks consumed, ranging from those that give them uncontrollable magnetic forces to causing ...
Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are estimated to kill 2.7 million people per year. With numbers like this, looking into cost-effective ways to reduce their breeding areas puts duckweed as a sensible option in many areas. Duckweed as a Biofuel Scientists are working on ways to utilize duckweed ...
In truth, I enjoy Thanksgiving as much as most, more than many and less than a few; being my first year away from family and friends during this festive period, I wondered how I would feel spending so much time with people I’ve only known for many months/a few months/a few weeks...
Back to healthy carbs: when consumed in appropriate amounts, these are great foods that can help you feel full and give you energy and all that jazz. Just make sure you know what an actual portion of these foods are! A LOT of people accidentally overeats carbohydrate-heavy foods, even...
Fresh eggs can be stored at the room temperature for a month after they are laid –provided that you don’t clean them or you do clean them with the pad so their bloom is still intact. In fact, fresh eggs are super delicious if they are consumed within 2 weeks after being laid. But...
Of course we didn’t do this consciously per se, but through natural selection. Why is this relevant? Well, firstly, many of us don’t live in the same circumstances that our ancestors did. Even if you are currently living in the same geographic location as your ancestors, it’s ...
Do not allow free feeding (always having food available in the bowl). One of the biggest human-related factors to a cat being overweight is overfeeding5. This is very common, and many pet owners do this unknowingly, but our eyes are bigger than their stomachs. Remember, if a cat has ...
Many families are used to living in shared living spaces. Daily markets, selling meat, including live chickens and ducks, seem to be common. Based on my calculations, the per-capita energy consumption of Southeast Asia is about half that of China and about 21% of the US’s average per-...