They spend millions of dollars coming up with new ways to promote junk food consumption. They hire scientists to make new junk food almost irresistible. They might do this, for example, by adding more sugar. Rats fed junk food for six weeks will even walk across a floor that gives them ...
Mild, acute stress seems to prepare your body to fight off infections. Studies on lab rats show that as their stress hormones rise, the animals release immune cells to the blood and skin. These are crucial places for immune cells to ward off diseases. However, if your stress is chronic, ...
They hire scientists to make new junk food almost irresistible. They might do this, for example, by adding more sugar. Rats fed junk food for six weeks will even walk across a floor that gives them electric shocks just to get more of such food. Food ads often make unhealthy junk food ...
The ‘LD50’ (the dose proven to be lethal for 50% of test subjects, usually rats) for table sugar is only 30g per kg body-weight. So for a group of average adults weighing 200lb (90kg), consuming 6lb (2.7kg) of sugar at once will kill half of them. The rest will experience ...
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) Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. Kill-joy (n.) One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person. Killock (n.) A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood ...
Schipperkes once spent a great deal of their time on barges protecting food sources from rats. That instinct has carried over to the modern era--this tenacious breed will happily guard your possessions from everyone (including even you if the mood strikes). That being said, the Schipperke is...