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A Diet Based on Caloric Restriction Might Make You Live Longer. It’ll Certainly Feel Like Longer.

A diet based on caloric restriction might make you live longer. It’ll certainly feel like longer. Called Prolon, it’s a five-day, $250 meal kit which arrives in a white cardboard container a little bigger than a shoebox. It involves eating about 800 calories each day. The idea is that temporarily shifts your body into a starvation state, prompting your cells to…

7 Ways To Prepare Wheat Without a Grinder

A lot of times people just getting started with their food storage have a big hang-up about wheat and how to use it. We are told to store hundreds of pounds of this food that we never actually cook with in our daily meal prep. For a long time we decided we wouldn’t store any…Continue Reading
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Ketogenic diet may stop migraines by changing the brain’s fuel

A low-carb diet cut the number of days people had migraines in half, possibly by forcing the brain to run on ketones instead of glucose Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213394-ketogenic-diet-may-stop-migraines-by-changing-the-brains-fuel/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

A mussel poop diet could fuel invasive carp’s spread across Lake Michigan

Asian carp, just a human-made waterway away from reaching Lake Michigan, could live in much more of the lake than previously thought. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mussel-poop-diet-could-fuel-invasive-carp-spread-across-lake-michigan4…

Many of the ‘Oldest’ People in the World May Not Be as Old as We Think

We’ve long been obsessed with the super-elderly. How do some people make it to 100 or even 110 years old? Why do some regions — say, Sardinia, Italy, or Okinawa, Japan — produce dozens of these “supercentenarians” while other regions produce none? Is it genetics? Diet? Environmental factors? Long walks at dawn? From a report: A new working paper released on…

Folic acid seems to be essential for fathers-to-be as well as mothers

With evidence building that folic acid is vital for healthy sperm, is it time to recommend that fathers-to-be supplement their diet with the vitamin? Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2212193-folic-acid-seems-to-be-essential-for-fathers-to-be-as-well-as-mothers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

How fireflies glow and what signals they’re sending

Are the gentle blinks of fireflies flashing a favorite part of your summer evenings? An entomologist explains some lightning bug basics. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/how-fireflies-glow-light-up-and-signals…

The black hole disk that shouldn’t exist

Astronomers didn’t expect to see a thin disk around the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 3147, some 130 million light-years away. They’re using Einstein’s theories of relativity to understand the velocities involved, and the intensity of black hole’s pull. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/black-hole-disk-shouldnt-exist-galaxy-ngc-3147…

Evolutionary Gene Loss May Help Explain Why Only Humans Are Prone To Heart Attack

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceDaily: A decade ago, Nissi Varki, MD, professor of pathology at UC San Diego School of Medicine, with co-author Ajit Varki, MD, Distinguished Professor Of Medicine and Cellular And Molecular Medicine, and colleagues noted that naturally occurring coronary heart attacks due to atherosclerosis are virtually non-existent in other mammals, including closely related chimpanzees in…