What characteristics are shared by people who stay happy and healthy as they age? An 80 year observational study suggests that some simple things have great power.
If we were to ask individual participants of either diet whether their diet "worked" for them we'd get a wide range of positive and negative responses.
When all factors were combined, they estimated that as many as 64 percent of all hospitalizations might have been prevented if COVID-19 patients had not also had the above chronic health problems.
Poor diets increase the risk of deaths from COVID-19 and other communicable diseases, a long-time concern that has greater significance than ever as a pandemic sweeps the planet.
Then there’s chocolate type: dark, milk, or white. These differ primarily in the amount of real cocoa solids versus cocoa butter and addition of sugar.
In nature, sweetness signals the presence of sugars, an excellent source of calories. So foragers able to perceive sweetness could detect whether sugar was present in potential foods, especially plants, and how much.
Reducing the complexity of the human body to the relative simplicity of these five concepts can help you get your head around the subject, but don’t be too relieved—these are still only relatively simple.