Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203)

Cynthia Sass

Mots clés insects plants weather antioxidants chemicals pesticides body-weight natural-defenses nutrients organic-foods satiety

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Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel’s bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can replace astonishingly quickly, as they are able to drink up to forty gallons in a single watering.” (pp.69-70)

Michael Benanav

Mots clés death water drinking myth fat camels body-weight blood-volume bloodstream body-tissues dehydration gallon humps mammal volume-shock watering

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

G.K. Chesterton

Mots clés humour body-weight

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