Vegetables lose some nutritional value in transportation, so when possible, buy produce from farmers’ markets.
Want to increase your well-being, creativity, and productivity?
If so, you might want to cultivate flow, a concept describing those moments when you’re completely absorbed in a challenging but doable task.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, considered one of the co-founders of positive psychology, was the first to identify and research flow. (If you’re not sure how to pronounce his name, here’s a phonetic guide: “Me high? Cheeks send me high!”)
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times .
Sacha Baron Cohen denounces Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google as ’the greatest propaganda machine in history’ and culpable for a surge in ‘murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities’. The actor focuses on Facebook, saying that ‘if you pay them, the platform will run any “political” ad you want, even if it’s a lie’. Baron Cohen is speaking on Thursday at Never Is Now, the Anti-Defamation League’s summit on antisemitism and hate in New York, where he is presented with the organisation’s international leadership award.
CHAPTER 1. Europe Classical and Medieval1 EUROPEAN CIVILISATION IS UNIQUE because it is the only civilisation which has imposed itself on the rest of the world. It did this by conquest and settlement; by its economic power; by the power of its ideas; and because it had things that everyone else wanted. Today every country on earth uses the discoveries of science and the technologies that flow from it, and science was a European invention.
The Dutch Golden Age was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, “Disaster Year”), in which Dutch trade, science, and art and the Dutch military were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first section is characterized by the Eighty Years’ War, which ended in 1648. The Golden Age continued in peacetime during the Dutch Republic until the end of the century, when costly conflicts, including the Franco-Dutch War and War of the Spanish Succession fuelled economic decline.
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-causes-love-handles
What are love handles? “Love handles” are areas of skin that extend outward from the hips. When combined with tight clothing, love handles become more pronounced, but they aren’t caused by tight clothing alone. They indicate excess fat accumulation around the hips and abdominal area.
What causes love handles?
The underlying cause of love handles is fat retention.
Generally speaking, fat cells accumulate when your body takes in too many calories or you don’t burn as many calories as you’re consuming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGce2fBK0aM&t=768s
to accomplish
to succeed in doing something, especially after trying very hard
= achieve
Mission accomplished.
Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.
to accumulate
to gradually get more and more money, possessions, knowledge etc over a period of time
eg. Capitalism is not just about accumulation.
In everyday English, people usually say build up rather than accumulate.
to be beware
used to warn someone to be careful because something is dangerous
