divendres, 1 de desembre del 2017

Do we really know what we eat?

Nowadays we think we eat quite healhy but that's a lie. In the majority of the aliments, no ecological, that we cosume, are plenty of additives like pesticides, insecticides and fertilisers.



For example, the no-ecological fruit has more pesticides than we expected. The peers have almost 50 different kind of these chemical subtances, strawberries have over than 20 and the apples have 32 pesticides. Is it a lot, right? That's what I thought after searching this information. But I haven't finished yet. Here's a list of one of the most damaging aliments we shouldn't eat daily:

-Bacon
-Sausages
-Pastries
-Chips
-Vegetal oils
-Butter

These aliments may cause cancer because they contain nitrates, potassium bromate, propyl gallate, BHA and BHT, which are all preservatives.

Here's another list with another damaging food for our health:

-Cupcakes (include propylparaben which cause femenine infertility)
-Fast food (contains phosphats which cause cardiovascular illnesses)
-Chocolate and energetic soft-drinks (produce negative effecte in the animal development due to theobromine)

During how many seconds should we wash our hands to get rid of bacterias?

Most of us wash our hands even unconsciously. When we were little our parents said to us that, after going to the toilet and before eating, we had to wash them "if we didn't want to have stomachache, because in the hands there're a lot of  microbes". But which is the correct way and the appropriate time to do it?

A scientific investigation has studied which is the minimum time to wash our hand- with soap- to eliminate all the bacterias and germs that we have.

After some experiments- washing the hands and analyzing them through a microscope- they arrived at the conclusion that the minimum time we should spend washing them is 20 seconds. That's the minimum period which we need to remove the bacterias. Doing this action less than the established time it's like doing it only with water. It's useless.

And how can you count until 20? Well, if you sing the "Happy Birthday Song" twice, it would be enough.





MY OPINION

Most of the times I wash my hands in 5 seconds because I've thought that with this time I would get rid of these undesirable germs, but now that I read this news, I will wash them more time and carefully.

Only a 5% of the people don't let theirselves to be fooled by this optical illusion



What do you see in this photo? A group of rectangles? The 95% of the people see it.

The creator of this optical illusion which its objective is trick our brain, is called Anthony Norcia and he designed it in 2017 (this year). He took advantage from our "weakness" that has our brains to recognize easier the square and rectangle shapes than the circular ones.

With this premise. he designed an image where there are some circles hidden, but at first sight, we're unable to see them because the human brain can't interpret these kind of shapes. Most of the people take some seconds to identify the circles, but once you get it, it seems the easiest thing in the world.

MY OPINION

The first thing I saw was the circles and then, after few seconds, I could see also the rectangles, looking as a door. It's very weird because, according to this news, the first thing I should see would be the circle shapes. Maybe I'm within this 5% of the people who didn't let theirselves to be fooled by this image...