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“Sluts are not necessarily sexual athletes—although many of do train more than most.” 😏

Final read through

Heh this book is very entertaining.

A friend of mine brought this back from Scotland and it's turned into my bedtime reading. I read one of the stories/legends/accounts before going to sleep. I have to say, it's a fun little read. And oh my - read about Sawney Bean the other night. Why have I never heard of this? 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_...

This book is wacky LOL

lol “I must confess that sometimes I think the best bread in Italy is in France.”

Man, this book is making me hungry.

Of antioxidants:

"It's a massive racket [...] The reason the notion of oxidation and ageing hangs around is because it is perpetuated by people making money out of it.
"Some studies have even suggested that antioxidant supplements can be harmful. [...] ...antioxidant supplementation did not lower the incidence of many age-associated diseases but, in some cases, increased the risk of death."

"Our extraordinary improvements in life span have come at a price. [...] 'For every year of added life that has been achieved since 1990, only 10 months is healthy.' "

Eesh.

"America is near the bottom for virtually every measure of medical well-being—for chronic disease, depression, drug abuse, homicide, teenage pregnancies, HIV prevalence. Even sufferers of cystic fibrosis live ten years longer in Canada than in the United States.

This book was published in 2019. In the section on disease:
" 'The fact is,' he says, 'we are really no better prepared for a bad outbreak today than we were when Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people [...] The reason we haven't had another experience like that isn't because we have been especially vigilant. It's because we have been lucky.' "
Later that year, COVID was first detected.

"In Italy, the number of women who die in childbirth is 3.9 per 100,000. Sweden is 4.6, Australia 5.1, Ireland 5.7, Canada 6.6. Britain comes in only twenty-third on the list with 8.2 deaths per 100,000 live births, putting it below Hungary, Poland, and Albania. [...] Among developed nations, the US is in a league of its own with a maternal death rate of 16.7 per 100,000, putting it thirty-ninth among nations."

"One curious fact is that animals that are hibernating also have periods of sleep. It comes as a surprise to most of us, but hibernation and sleep are not the same thing at all. [...] a hibernating animal needs to get a few hours of conventional sleep each day within the larger unconsciousness. "

Also:
Bears don't technically hibernate. "Their winter slumbers are more accurately called a state of torpor."

Huh:
"There's a really easy way to do food shopping in supermarkets," he says. "Just stick to the outside aisles. The aisles in between are almost entirely filled with processed foods. If you stick to the outside, you will automatically have a healthier diet."

“Almost three-quarters of the forty million antibiotic prescriptions written each year in the United States are for conditions that cannot be cured with antibiotics.” —On rapidly growing antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

“…the full cost of building a new human being, using the obliging Benedict Cumberbatch as a template would be a very precise $151,578.46 [USD]. Labor and sales tax would, of course, boost costs further. You would probably be lucky to get a take-home Benedict Cumberbatch for much under $300,000…” 🤣

Perfect beach reading. I love Mary Roach’s books.

Yep. I'm very happy with how the book turned out. :D

This book was so much fun to write :D

Last read-through before setting up the pre-order. :D

Thoroughly engaging.

This book is full of fascinating little anecdotes and trivia