Depression, Penguin Chicks, Peeing In The Cold
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll find yet another reason to avoid sugary sodas, why we might pee more in the winter, and the plight of the penguins.
Sugary Drinks Depression
- “Large study links sugary carbonated drinks to increased risk of depression.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2023.
- “Sugary Drinks.” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 2023.
Peeing In Cold Weather
- “Why do I need to pee more in the cold?” by Christian Moro & Charlotte Phelps. 2022.
- “Reliability of 24-h void frequency as an index of hydration status when euhyrdrated and hypohydrated.” by MA Tucker, et al. 2016.
- “6 Reasons To Drink More Water During Winter: The Importance of Drinking Water in Winter.” Hydr8. N.d.
Penguin Chicks Climate Change
- “Emperor penguins lost thousands of chicks to melting ice last year.” by Luis Melecio-Zambrano. 2023.
- “Emperor Penguin.” National Geographic. N.d.
- “Antarctic sea ice has been hitting record lows for most of this year.” by Carolyn Gramling. 2023.
- “Penguin poop spotted from space ups the tally of emperor penguin colonies.” by Carolyn Gramling. 2020.
- “Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins.” by Peter T. Fretwell, Aude Boutet, & Norman Ratcliffe. 2023.
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| 0:48.9 | your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a lawyer listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about yet |
| 0:54.4 | another reason to avoid sugary sodas, why we might pee more in the winter and the plight of the |
| 1:00.5 | penguins. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 1:05.0 | There are a lot of reasons to avoid sugary sodas. |
| 1:08.0 | What they lack in nutritional value, they make up for in sugar and calories. In fact if you were to drink a |
| 1:15.0 | single sugary soda every day without cutting back on other calories you would |
| 1:18.8 | gain about five pounds a year. Yeah okay but they're delicious. Yeah, I know. But it's not just |
| 1:26.8 | weak game. They also increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. They make heart |
| 1:30.9 | disease more likely and liver cancer and out and they make your bones weaker and they can lead to early death |
| 1:36.8 | Okay, but this is the point in the story where you introduce that According to a massive study of over 87,000 South Korean adults, |
| 1:54.4 | sugary soda makes you sad. |
| 1:57.0 | Wait, what? |
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