Month: August 2022

They are harvested in huge quantities, the green or yellow long zucchini. Some amateur gardeners are overrun by the rich zucchini harvest, so neighbors are richly gifted with the delicious all-rounders. After all, nothing is more delicious than seasonal vegetables that probably come straight from the garden if possible! Zucchini was bred from the garden squash in the 17th century, which is how they got their name “little pumpkins” (from Italian “Zucco”: pumpkin, dubbed “zucchini”: little gourd). The zucchini vegetable is easy to grow and thrives in flower pots on…

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As time moves, more and more people look a little more attentively into their wallets when shopping. On the one hand, food is too good to throw away, and on the other hand, it is simply too expensive. Who prepares the meal and the purchase well saves money and ensures that fewer food lands in the ton. A weekly plan should include specific meal requests and the corresponding shopping list. This time investment is worthwhile because before you go to the supermarket, you almost inevitably take a look in your…

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We need vitamin D primarily for healthy bones. But it is also supposed to help against various other diseases. Here’s what science says. When we speak of vitamin D, we are not referring to a specific substance or vitamin. Scientists use the term more or less as a generic term for a group of fat-soluble vitamins – the so-called calciferous. The most important forms include vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) and vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). The human body can only form vitamin D under light, UV-B radiation. Vitamin D is often called “the…

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The human sense of smell is also essential for mental health, harmonious relationships, and solving everyday problems. After a corona infection, the sense of smell is impaired in many people. Some can never smell again. Other diseases or accidents can also trigger this. For those affected, the loss means more tremendous suffering than expected. Because smelling also has a lot to do with feelings. Hundreds of thousands of people who have contracted the coronavirus are currently experiencing what life is like without their sense of smell. Temporarily losing one’s sense…

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Some people seem magically attracted to mosquitoes, while the insects maltreat others. Why is that – and is there any truth to the myth of “sweet blood”? “The sweet blood myth is a myth and nothing more.” Doreen Werner, a biologist and mosquito expert at the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research in Müncheberg (Brandenburg), assures us. But some factors can cause people to be bitten by mosquitoes more often than others. The exhaled air What mosquitoes are particularly keen on, and who less so, depends first and foremost on…

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