These days, the quest for a healthier lifestyle and positive eating habits is what most people are wanting these days. In short, increasing life expectancy and worrying about ‘how’ you will live in the next few years is almost the rule nowadays.

We all know that a good diet can influence our health and the willingness we have to face the day-to-day. The secret is not just eating fruits and vegetables. Rather, eat a balanced diet with all foods in the right amounts. That’s because our bodies need a little of each food for us to have a healthy life.

And in these times where everyone is looking for health, or at least trying, research into which foods are good for health are recurrent. Fruits are always among the recommendations for healthy eating .

Apple

That’s because they are rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants. For example, the apple. This theft makes a difference in the body and can protect the person from some diseases when it is consumed in the right amount. All this because the apple has several health benefits.

According to what American studies show, the apple decreases the incidence of type 2 diabetes because it has an antioxidant. For example, if women eat a green apple on an empty stomach, it decreases their chance of having diabetes by up to 30%.

According to Valéria Goulart, a nutrologist at the Brazilian Association of Nutrology, apples contain polyphenols that protect the heart and prevent cardiovascular disease. In addition, the fruit also has a fiber called pectin. This fiber reduces the absorption of fats that are ingested on a daily basis, consequently also helping to fight bad cholesterol.

Benefits

“The apple is able to relieve stomach pain, it helps to fight gastritis because it works as a gel. This fruit increases the production of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter responsible for aiding memory, and thus reduces the chance of the individual triggering Alzheimer’s or stroke,” said Valéria.

“Polyphenols also act as anti-inflammatory drugs and reduce the chance of a person having cancer, especially in the digestive tract. Another function is to fight free radicals, those that delay aging, favor the production of collagen, help with oral health, malic acid that increases saliva production, reducing the proliferation of bacteria, which form the bacterial plaque”, he continued.

A study by the National Institute of the United States showed that eating an apple a day is good for your health and prevents various diseases. The study was carried out with more than eight thousand people. And for a year, approximately 10% of them ate an apple daily.

Include in the diet

It was seen that these people did not need to take many medications, they did not get sick and the apple still gave them more energy and energy. That’s because, although fruit is low in calories, it has carbohydrates and fiber.

An important recommendation made by Valéria is that the best time to consume apples is for breakfast because of the pectin present in the fruit’s peel. It slows down digestion and also slows down the absorption of sugar in the body. In this way, the intestine will function in a healthy way.

“Because it is a fruit rich in fiber and water, it causes a feeling of satiety and reduces appetite. It has pectin in the skin that reduces the absorption of sugar, and this is excellent for those who want to lose weight. In addition, whoever eats an apple 15 minutes before meals eats 200 calories less,” said Valéria.

The physical basically deals with the science of nature, seeks to describe, predict and explain phenomena through laws that happen to the matter in the course of space and time. And even with many scientists working tirelessly every day, there are still unsolved mysteries. Or, if discoveries are made that were previously thought.

In short, this field of study is very broad and can always have a new twist, even if unintentionally. For example, the case of Derek Muller. When he took an experimental land yacht for a spin, it was not in his plans to make a scientific controversy. And sure enough, Muller wasn’t trying to win $10,000 on a bet.

Break concepts

Muller is the creator of the “Veritasium” YouTube channel. He likes to break trendy scientific concepts for the pleasure of his nearly 10 million followers. In May of that year, he published a video about a vehicle called Blackbird.

Rick Cavallaro, a former aerospace engineer, created the vehicle that runs on wind energy. He is the only one that can move directly downwind and faster than the wind itself for a period of time.

And any sailor can tell that a boat can also do this by cutting zigzag patterns, which is called grip. However, the idea that a vehicle can beat the wind by traveling in a straight comb line, without making any bends, is quite controversial.

“I knew this was a counterintuitive problem. To be perfectly honest with you, when I went out to pilot the ship, I didn’t understand how it worked,” Muller said.

Vehicle

In fact, the vehicle is so counterintuitive that less than a week after Muller released his video, UCLA physics professor Alexander Kusenko emailed him to tell Muller that something must be wrong. “A vehicle like this would violate the laws of physics,” Kusenko said.

“I said, ‘Look, if you don’t believe this, let’s put some money into this,’” Muller said. The youtuber suggested a $10,000 bet figuring the teacher wouldn’t take it. However, to Muller’s surprise, Kusenko accepted the bet.

Over the next few weeks, the two exchanged data and discussed the vehicle. The two even called on other big names in science, such as Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson, to help them decide which one was right. And in the end, Muller won the bet.

Bet

After a few days that Muller suggested the bet, Kusenko sent him a document with the terms of the bet. “Everything was always super airtight, I never saw a way to lose,” said Muller.

“Thanks to the laws of physics , I’m not risking anything,” Kusenko said. The professor was also quite confident that he would win the bet. So much so that he gave an hour-long presentation to Muller explaining why he was sure the youtuber had been fooled by science.

According to Kusenko, the Blackbird likely took advantage of intermittent wind gusts that helped the vehicle accelerate. In return, Muller sent the teacher data from the driving test in his video.

On the journey made on the bed of Lake El Mirage in Arizona, the vehicle accelerated more than two minutes. Which would have been impossible if he had counted on the gusts of wind. Blackbird reached a speed of 45 kilometers per hour in a tail wind of 16 kilometers per hour.

So Kusenko admitted that “due to a technicality the vehicle moves a little faster than the wind temporarily.”