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Sir Dave Brailsford And The Power Of Achieving Big Success Through Small Wins
The world of sports is littered with tales of triumph and transformation. From underdogs clawing their way to the top, to established teams and individuals pushing the envelope and raising the bar, there is never a shortage of inspiration to be found.
By Chelsea Rose7 months ago in Lifehack
Are you struggling to lose weight? It's not your fault!
One of the biggest areas I have noticed that most people do not pay attention too when struggling to lose weight is their liver function, crazy right! Speaking to most of the people who I have trained, putting in countless time in the gym and diet after diet but not seeing the results they wanted, so I started to do research to see if there was anything I can do to help further their progress.
By Rafael Aponte7 months ago in Lifehack
why do we dream?
In the third millennium BC, the kings of Mesopotamia wrote and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. Thousands of years later, the ancient Egyptians wrote a dream book that listed over a hundred common dreams and their meanings. Over the years, we have explored what dreams are all about. So, after scientific research, technological advances, and patience, the answer is still not clear, but we do have some interesting theories. We dream to fulfill our desires. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud suggested that although all our dreams, including dreams, are a collection of images from our everyday conscious life, they are also symbols, related to the fulfillment of our criminal desires. Freud said that everything we remember when we wake up from a dream is a representation of past thoughts, drives, and desires that we were not aware of. Freud believed that by analyzing these parts of memory, unconscious information can be revealed to our conscious mind, and that psychological problems caused by abuse can be resolved and addressed.
By Rowan Sharkawy7 months ago in Lifehack
What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow?
Let's explore the hypothesis together. The number of animals is more than four times the human population. Animals alone weigh about ten times the weight of all other wild mammals. Imagine if a nutritionist suddenly appeared with a wave of his stick and wiped all the meat off our plates—and wanted to eat it. Farm animals disappear for food--they are taken to other planets. What will happen in days, years, even thousands of years? Overnight, food-related greenhouse gas emissions decrease by 63%. We are no longer getting protein and essential nutrients from the 70 billion chickens, 1.5 billion pigs, 300 million cows and 200 million tonnes of fish and shellfish that are produced for consumption each year. To fill these nutritional gaps, we increase our appetite for fruits, vegetables, and nuts—foods that most nutritionists agree contain all the nutrients we need for a healthy life. . However, at first there was no food. Growth in demand drives up production costs. In places like Mongolia, the environment is harsh, it's hard to grow vegetables, and when there's a sudden lack of meat, people can't eat it. The meat-based culture has lost its footing. For example, members of the salmon-eating tribes in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States not only lost food and livelihoods, but also a large part of their their religion. Tens of millions of fishermen have lost their jobs and are fearing a decline in fish stocks. With the collapse of the food industry, many families in developing countries must compete for the income generated from livestock production. Some beef producers have converted to farming, thereby reducing the risk of workers and local communities to respiratory diseases associated with animal husbandry. As agriculture increased, prices fell. Finally, vegetarian food is cheaper than meat in most countries. Fortunately, we don't need to open up new farmland to grow all this food. If no animals are raised for food, land can be used to grow food. All things considered, our new diet requires less land and less water. Millions of deaths can be avoided each year, in part due to lower rates of heart disease, cancer and other diseases linked to eating red meat. We no longer have new pathogens from wild animals hunted for food, new flu infections from farmed pigs, or drug-producing bugs from beef cattle previously treated with antibiotics. . Over time, biodiversity will continue to increase due to habitat loss, pesticide use, and other agricultural pressures. Amazon birds have more forest to fly into. Fewer cheetahs are shot because the prey is too close. As natural habitats develop, colonies of bees, wasps and insects flourish. On the other hand, plants that have been planted by insects will be more productive. Many marine species thrive on fishing. Throughout history, people in vegetarian areas have developed genetic variations to help them process fats in plants. So, over thousands of years, our bodies may have evolved to benefit from vegetables. Some adaptations may be lost, such as the ability to absorb iron from meat. Of course, magic won't destroy our world without food. Although many people choose to eat vegetarian, the number of people who eat meat continues to increase throughout the world. This situation is a problem for our climate. Even if we suddenly stop using fossil fuels, a business-as-usual food system and population growth will push global temperatures above 1.5°C by the end of the century . Cows are the main culprits. Beef and dairy produce more than 60%, but provide 18% of the world's calories. Generally, foods that are high in protein, such as chicken, produce fewer greenhouse gases than dairy-free vegetarian foods. Cutting back on meat, cheese, and dairy consumption can see many of the benefits of a diet-free world—no miracles required.
By Rowan Sharkawy7 months ago in Lifehack
Why kids don’t get as cold as adults do
I love how it feels in the fall when it's 55 degrees outside and it's finally cool enough to wear my winter sweaters, sweaters, beanies and gloves. I drink pumpkin spice to warm me up. But I love the feeling of suddenly hitting 55 degrees in the middle of winter. So I left my jacket at home and walked outside in shorts and a T-shirt, feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin. I thought of going to the beach to sunbathe as the weather was very warm. The temperature was the same, but my reaction to it was completely different. One reason is that I have more stuff in my body in January than in September. This substance allows children and teenagers to deal with cold weather better than adults. When you get hot, you sweat. You are cold and shivering. But before you start shivering, your body is already working. It starts burning fat...but not the fat we think. There are two aspects of fat that we want to consider. It contains white fat. We usually think of white fat as "fat". Because it looks white it is called white. White fat is found throughout the body, protecting our bones and organs. By the way, Dr. Aaron Sepes. White fat cells have many functions, one of the most important functions being the body's energy source. We use our fat as fuel every day. However, there is one type of fat that does the opposite: brown fat. These cells are smaller, so they are more like muscle than fat. Brown fat cells are not the large lipid droplets in white fat cells, but the fibrous sacks of mitochondria. This is why it looks brown. If you remember anything from high school biology class...you know that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Instead of acting as an energy reserve to be burned by organs throughout the body, brown fat uses its own energy to burn energy. Unlike white fat, it is only found in specific areas. On the neck, shoulders, upper arms. It goes down the spine and goes to some parts of the stomach. There is a lot of overlap with the main blood vessels, because heating the blood warms the whole body. Brown fat around the blood vessels in the neck warms the blood that flows to the brain. That is very good. Brown fat is stored in the shoulders, and when the blood is heated by the brown fat, it moves quickly to the heart and is pumped throughout the body. This is the first line of defense against the cold. If it is not enough to raise the body temperature...the body will shiver. But one of the craziest things I learned while researching this story was...babies can't shake. When babies are born, they don't have enough muscle mass and may not be well coordinated with the brain and muscles to vibrate properly. Therefore, they need another way to produce heat, and brown fat is one part of that. Babies are born with a lot of brown fat. According to the Cleveland Clinic, this substance makes up 2 to 5 percent of a baby's weight. This is important for our life. Brown fat age seems to occur in teenagers, which explains why so many people in my high school wore shorts in the winter. But as we age, our bodies burn less. This will help us understand why children are hotter than our parents or grandmothers are cold. Older people...have significantly less brown fat... In terms of absolute and relative quantities. It also loses muscle, which is important for heat production. But the similarities between brown fat and muscle don't end there. If you exercise, the amount of brown fat will increase. And the way you do that is by exposing yourself to the cold for long periods of time… A 2014 study showed. See how much brown fat increased in this man from Maryland after exposure to cold weather. Notice how much the ratings drop when exposed to warmer temperatures. This explains why 55 degrees in the winter is warmer than 55 degrees in the fall. However, brown fat is not just heating. Scientists have found that eating more vitamin A is associated with a lower risk of diabetes and heart disease. However, using cold therapy to study the effects of brown fat is difficult. One challenge is the difficulty of returning the heating. How much...I gave you the "big" cold. I mean, you know the temperature, but it's hard to know what you're doing, so it's hard to design reproducible research. So they tried to activate brown fat with drugs to study how heat affects us biologically. A drug called Mirabegron, which is approved to treat urinary incontinence, activates brown fat to mimic the effects of a cold. There's a lot we don't know about brown fat...but we do know that our bodies use it to adapt to cold weather. If a child doesn't want to wear a coat in the winter, it doesn't mean he's an adult. They probably have more in them than you do.
By Rowan Sharkawy7 months ago in Lifehack
Which is better for you: "Real" meat or "fake" meat?
In 2021, a survey of more than 1,000 Americans found that nearly two-thirds had eaten some form of plant-based food in the past year. Many cited the health and environmental benefits as motivation. But are these types of foods better for us and the planet? First, let's introduce the contestants. Meat from slaughtered animals, called forage, has a complex structure consisting of muscle fibers, connective tissue, and fat. You may recognize it from its role in the human diet, dating back to the origins of our species. Our next challengers are the plant-based varieties, which look and taste like meat, but are made from protein, carbohydrates, fats and other plant molecules. Converting plant molecules into something flesh-like takes a lot of effort. The grain of beef is made up of long, stick-like proteins. To model this structure, global proteins can be pushed through an extruder and forced to unravel and join together into long filaments. To mimic animal fats, companies combine fats and oils derived from plants. One popular brand adds colored beet juice that changes the color of the patty as it cooks. Others added an iron molecule called heme, which their team says is key to the food's flavor. There are many types of results. Finally, our final ingredient: lab-grown beef. Also known as stem-cell and cultured beef, these products start with animal stem cells that researchers force to reproduce and build muscle. It should be noted that most lab-grown beef is still in the development phase, so the exact process may vary when it is produced on a larger commercial scale. So which type of meat or similar meat is best for your health? Raised beef is an important source of many proteins and human nutrients. But researchers also found a link between red and processed foods and health problems such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. A 2012 study concluded that replacing red meat with other foods, such as chicken, beans or peas, in one meal a day reduced the risk of heart disease. by 7 to 19 percent. There is too little data to know if replacing red meat with plant-based bread has the same effect. Plant-grown beef, while having the same amount of protein, calories and iron as farmed beef, is highly processed meat that is high in sodium. Most of them are in coconut oil, which is high in saturated fat and, like red meat, increases the risk of heart disease. At the same time, lab-grown beef can provide the same nutritional benefits and health risks as farmed meat. But we are not sure how to progress product development. So which competitor is better for the environment? The livestock industry is estimated to be responsible for 14.5% of human greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers report that producing plant-based foods produces an average of 90% less greenhouse gas emissions than beef, 63% less than pork, and 51% less less than a chicken. Plant-based crops require less land and water than conventional crops. It produces very little of the pollutants that run off from farms and waterways, posing a threat to the environment and public health. For lab-grown beef, the industry currently harvests stem cells from animal muscle tissue. But in order to increase the production, how many animals are needed to make these biodiesel? It is not clear to what extent alternative foods will reduce the environmental impact of the farmed food industry. What if, instead of replacing food with others, people continued to eat large amounts of organic foods while eating new options? While there's no real way to know which is the best diet, if you're concerned about your personal impact on animal welfare, public health, and the environment, plant-based foods may be at the top of the list. Switching to a different diet is not an all-or-nothing decision. In fact, a 2022 study suggested that cutting red meat to just one serving per day could reduce a person's dietary carbon footprint by 48%.
By Rowan Sharkawy7 months ago in Lifehack
Why your phone battery gets worse over time
A drop of gasoline, a lighter, and a battery can store energy, but only the battery can be recycled when it runs out of energy. Because, chemically, used batteries are no different from new batteries. Most of the batteries we use today work because some metals like to give up electrons and other metals like to take them. For example, in a lead-acid battery, the zinc metal reacts with the saturated ions, turning it into zinc oxide, which releases electrons to the negative terminal.
By Rowan Sharkawy7 months ago in Lifehack
Unlocking Evеryday Convеniеncе: Thе Many Practical Usеs of Applе's AirTag
In thе fast-pacеd world wе livе in, whеrе our attеntion is oftеn pullеd in multiplе dirеctions, it's not uncommon to misplacе things. Entеr Applе's AirTag – a gamе-changеr in thе rеalm of tracking and finding your еssеntial itеms. This unassuming littlе dеvicе offеrs a plеthora of practical usеs that go bеyond just locating lost kеys. Lеt's divе into thе many ways you can intеgratе this innovativе tool into your daily lifе.
By cocoonharbor7 months ago in Lifehack