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  • They are varied. Red wines have more tannins than white, white wines come in different sweetness, with the less sweet ones described as dry

    If you wanted to try a red wine I would suggest starting on merlot

    I wouldn’t recommend drinking an entire bottle in a day. Opened wine can be kept in the fridge for a few days


  • That’s teetotal, nothing to do with the nice hot cuppa

    Also last time I saw teetotalers being less healthy than occasional drinkers was decades ago before never drinking became normal among the youth as they came of age

    Back then the only reason to not drink was to treat alcoholism or a serious problem. Now people abstain because their friends do




  • In respect to green leaves I have read that it is most likely a peak. They can’t get to a better colour that doesn’t send away lots of energy because they would have to lose the ability to make energy from sunlight to get to a better way of doing it

    Plants manage to use about 2% of the sunlight that hits them (the best get up to 6%) . Our rooftop solar does 22% (with the best managing 25%)


  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Ecosystem services
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    I presume it’s because some pathogens are adapted to us, or it’s because of our changed diet since the agricultural revolution 10k years ago at most, or our population density and food production and transportation system causes greater exposure to pathogens, or done mix of all those and probably more

    The modern world is pretty complex


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    Funny. The thing I found said the stomach acid was strongest in a fasted state, I didn’t read its reference for that state, 'cause I don’t usually bother reading too deeply on what amounts to a “humans are pretty remarkable” comment.

    Incidentally I don’t like Wikipedia on anything diet or digestion related as they are not allowed to reference primary research, and what makes it to newspapers is the information with money behind it. I don’t want Coca-Cola and Unilever’s take on human health.


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    3 months ago

    Looking it up I just read that our gastric acid is produced at PH 0.8

    It’s immediately increased to PH 1.5 by the other gastric juices, then is increased more as it is used to digest

    People who eat one or two meals a day probably have very acidic stomach acid at each meal; those who snack constantly or eat 5 meals a day probably never see strong stomach acid except maybe at breakfast