🍺 War on booze 😐 Fake faces win 🔥 Oven hack

🍺 War on booze 😐 Fake faces win 🔥 Oven hack

Before you duck out early for dollar-oysters and a round of IPAs, consider this: Canada just released new health guidelines for alcohol that assert "no amount" is healthy. Canadian health officials now recommend people reduce drinking as much as possible. Previous 2011 guidelines urged women and men consume no more than 10 and 15 drinks per week, respectively.
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STORY OF THE WEEK

A war on alcohol is building

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Before you duck out early for dollar-oysters and a round of IPAs, consider this: Canada just released new health guidelines for alcohol that assert "no amount" is healthy.

Canadian health officials now recommend people reduce drinking as much as possible. Previous 2011 guidelines urged women and men consume no more than 10 and 15 drinks per week, respectively.

Now, Canada has no recommended limit - just a "continuum of risk" associated with drinking even a few glasses of wine or beer over a seven-day period.

"Research shows that no amount or kind of alcohol is good for your health," the new guidelines read. "It doesn’t matter what kind of alcohol it is - wine, beer, cider or spirits. Drinking alcohol, even a small amount, is damaging to everyone."

Concern centers primarily around a large body of research linking regular alcohol use to increased risk of liver disease, cancer, heart disease, and alcohol-related accidents (e.g., car crashes). There are 140,000 alcohol-related deaths in the US each year.

While the Netherlands has come out with guidelines similar to Canada's, most countries aren't ready to "toss the sauce" just yet. Australian health officials are still okay with 10 drinks a week, and British officials recommend six or fewer. The US doesn't have a weekly recommendation, but urges no more than two drinks a day.

Anecdotally, there does seem to be an anti-alcohol movement forming, right? I, for one, am doing Dry Jan and have become the awkward guy chugging club soda with lime in the corner at social events. Never felt better, though...

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IN OTHER NEWS

Fakes faces, blood breakthrough, intense exercise...

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A study found people perceive certain computer-generated faces to be more real-looking than actual pictures of people. So-called "deep fake" technology is now wildly effective.

Blood Testing

Researchers developed a new method to measure thousands of molecules from a single drop of blood, including health markers and fat/protein levels. Theranos 2.0? Hope not!

ChatGPT

ChatGPT (the AI software people can't stop talking about) just easily passed a U-Penn Wharton Business School test. Highly-skilled jobs are apparently not immune to AI.

Focus

According to a new study, losing focus might help boost learning by giving our brains a quick reprieve from a task at hand. It also helps integrate diverse concepts into thinking.

Intense Exercise

A study found that between 20 hours of fasting vs. 90 mins of normal exercise vs. 6 mins of vigorous exercise, the 6 minutes yielded the most BDNF (key brain function chemical).

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HACK OF THE WEEK

Cleaning your oven is...possible?

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Ovens are notoriously difficult to clean. So difficult, in fact, that the majority of people just...don't clean them.

The primary issue here is the awkwardly large oven door that gets in the way.

Here's the kicker: the door comes off. You read that correctly. THE DOOR COMES OFF!

I had no idea. Did you? Am I late to the party here?

In any case, this guy demonstrates how to remove the door.

Not all heros wear capes...

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SHOWER THOUGHTS
  1. Plants can’t eat in the dark.
  2. An electric toothbrush doesn’t break. It just becomes a regular toothbrush.
  3. Walkie-talkies were a lot more exciting before cellphones.
  4. Your life consists mostly of moments you don’t remember.
  5. The first human to snap must have felt like a rockstar.
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QUOTE / TIL / WORD / TRIVIA

Diane McLaren: "Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

Today I learned that the USA was supposed to adopt the metric system but the ship carrying the standardized meter and kilogram was hijacked by pirates in 1793 and the measurements never made it to the States. (more here)

wangle [ wang-gul ] - verb
manage to obtain (something) by persuading or cleverly manipulating someone.
I wangled an invitation to her party.

Q: Which country borders 14 nations and crosses 8 time zones?
A: (see below next section)

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TWEET OF THE WEEK
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TRIVIA ANSWER: Russia.

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