mohelgamal
mohelgamal t1_jc7kjwb wrote
Reply to comment by GDPisnotsustainable in 60% of US foods Contain technical food additives, new study finds by diosmio
While I understand that people don’t come from work to do more work at home. Relying on home cooked meals isn’t as difficult, expensive or time consuming as people argue. Once you learn to cook you can do it fairly quickly if you don’t want very fancy gourmet meals.
And buying ingredients is definitely cheaper than buying processed food if you are ok eating similar meals a few days in a row so you don’t waste stuff.
For example, to feed a family of 4 Big Macs meals from McDonald’s, which is cheap, you would need pay something like $25 dollars.
$25 dollars are definitely enough to buy a 1lbs of ground beef, a head of lettuce, a pack of cheese, two potatoes and 4 buns of bread. You would need oil (reusable) a pinch of spices and perhaps a $1 in energy to make the same at home. It would take 15-20 mins to cook the burgers and the fries. And you probably would still have some left over buns and cheese slices.
mohelgamal t1_jc7hx9q wrote
Reply to comment by Gemmabeta in 60% of US foods Contain technical food additives, new study finds by diosmio
The list wasn’t complete enough, they didn’t include dihydrogen monoxide.
mohelgamal t1_it5gpiq wrote
Reply to Why does alcohol kill bacteria, but not the cells that our bodies are composed of? by Chairman_Mittens
>Isn't a single cell essentially the same basic structure as a bacteria, just joined together with other cells? Or am I actually killing millions of cells every time I rinse, but they regrow each time?
No there are a lot of different types of cells, bacteria has much simpler cell walls so alcohol dissolves them easily.
But our skin and mucous membranes have evolved specifically to resist the outside environment, through the use of condensed keratin at the surface, that forms a very touch layer, still if you put your hand in concentrated alcohol long enough it will damage your skin. mucous membranes are similar to skin except with less dry keratin on the outside.
Internally, the cells would be far more vulnerable, think of what a drop of alcohol do to your eye or to an open wound. it would be bad. alcohol injection is used sometimes when you need to damage certain tissues on purpose, such as in nerve ablation procedure.
mohelgamal t1_jcdiysf wrote
Reply to comment by riazrahman in Malformations in heart, eyes and nervous system: Nano-plastics disrupt growth by giuliomagnifico
They don’t get exposed to that dose, so the damage would be limited as of now, but overtime, since these PFAs accumulate at a much higher rate than they degrade, the level we are exposed too will rise steadily