Category: General Interest

Newly purchased clothes should always be washed before you wear them for the first time. Because you never know what’s hiding on the surface. Sometimes, the anticipation of wearing a new item of clothing is too great. But it’s better to have the patience to wash it first, says Kim Romine, hygiene scientist at Procter & Gamble in Fairfield, Ohio (USA). “The human body naturally produces body dirt throughout the day.” On average, this adds up to about one liter of sweat, 40 grams of sebum, 10 grams of skin…

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Doctors urgently warn against suppressing a sneeze. What seems harmless to us can have serious consequences. Do you sometimes stifle a sneeze when you’re out and about in public? We often find it unpleasant when someone sneezes loudly on the bus or train. But it is better not to suppress a sneeze, as it can harm your health. Severe damage caused by suppressed sneezingBacteria and viruses are expelled through the nose when you sneeze. This process is vital to prevent the pathogens from remaining in our bodies and exacerbating or…

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A study reveals new findings on the link between perceived age and dementia.Many people associate dementia with old age. But “younger” people can also be affected by the cognitive disease. According to a recent study, people who feel older may be sicker because they are physically older. Age is diverseHow is this possible? This is what the Swedish study by Sara Hägg and Jonathan Mak attempts to explain. They demonstrated that the number of years of life, or chronological age, differs significantly from biological age. “People age at different rates,…

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Attention! Telephone scammers want to trick their victims into installing certain programs on their computers.They speak broken German or English with a heavy accent, call many times in a row and pretend to be Microsoft employees. Calls from telephone fraudsters are currently on the increase again. Unusual telephone numbers appear on the displays, including those with an Austrian area code. An alleged support employee tells anyone who picks up the phone that the computer is infected with a virus. However, these criminals want to persuade their victims to install a…

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Sugar alternatives are in, and ‘natural’ products are becoming increasingly popular. That’s why many people are turning to golden bee honey. But is it better than household sugar? In our society, we can’t avoid sugar. It is omnipresent and is even found in many baby food products. Sweet seductionFocus Gesundheit Arztsuche reports that in the 7955 products examined in Budapest, Haifa, Sofia and Vienna, around a third of the calories came from added sugar, fruit juice concentrates or other sweeteners. If the taste buds of babies under six months are…

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Autumn has been like a doctor who says, You don’t need an artificial knee yet. It’s easy to think I’ll never get to the alley with the artificial knee. But anyone caught out by the fog on the way to work today can say to themselves, Now I know what the blues are again, but at least it’s not Monday because Monday felt even worse. A considerable proportion of the population suffers from a mini-depression on Mondays. There’s even a medical name for it: “Monday neurosis.” It could just be…

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To ensure your bank account doesn’t suffer in the coming winter months, we reveal five heating mistakes you should avoid!The high electricity prices are still putting a strain on our bank account, and now the winter months are rolling around again, which require one thing above all else: lots of energy for heating! But what should you pay attention to when heating your home? 1. Open room doorsDo you think you can save money by only heating one room and heating the other rooms by leaving the doors open? Unfortunately,…

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The Copernicus Climate Change Service provides monthly climate data on global average temperatures on land, in the air and the oceans, partly on behalf of the EU. The latest evaluations show October 2023 was the warmest since records began. The average surface temperature was 15.30 degrees Celsius, 0.85 degrees Celsius above the October average from 1991 to 2020. That is 0.40 degrees Celsius above the warmest October so far in 2019. The month was also 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than the estimated October average between 1850 and 1900, the so-called…

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It was a disappointment for many: there was no iPad at the recent presentation of new products from Apple. Only a new stylus (“Pencil”) was in the portfolio. But now insiders are reporting that an entirely new tablet is set to arrive in the second half of 2024—a foldable iPad. Information comes from TaiwanTime and again, manufacturers try to rekindle the hype of the foldable with new products. Most of the time, they don’t succeed. For a long time, fans hoped for an iPhone that could be folded in half.…

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