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Side Effect of Intermittent Fasting, "Corn Sweat" Causing Humidity Levels to Rise, and TDIH - The Longest Overwater Bridge in the US

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Too much of a good thing - Does the popular trend of intermittent fasting have a downside? Plus, are you feeling the corn sweat? We’ll explain. And on This Day in History, the longest overwater bridge opens. 'Too much of a good thing': Here’s what fasting could actually do to your body | BBC Science Focus Magazine Sweaty corn is making it even more humid | AP News Feeling Sticky This Summer? 'Corn Sweat' Could Be Raising the Humidity | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com) What is corn sweat? A Midwest heat wave is causing humidity to skyrocket. | Vox Driving the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway: The Longest Overwater Bridge in the World - UponArriving Tammany Family: Mandeville History: A Resort Dreamed Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Opens (nationalgeographic.org) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ride home. He's Reggie Rizu. I'm Marcus Path on today's episode. Too much of a good thing? Does the

1:10.3

popular trend of intermittent fasting have a downside?

1:14.4

Plus, are you feeling the corn sweat? We'll explain.

1:18.1

And on this day in history, the longest overwater bridge opens.

1:22.4

That's all coming up on cool stuff, ride home.

1:25.6

Kicking off a Friday edition with a story from BBC Science Focus and author Noah Leach.

1:32.3

Intermittent fasting seems to be all the rage these days and research has shown that

1:36.3

it can lengthen your lifespan and aid in weight loss, both very good things.

1:40.3

But the question looms, can you have too much of a good thing? According to a new MIT study,

1:46.1

the answer to that question is yes, as researchers there found that there could be a darker side

1:51.4

to the regenerative powers of fasting. The researchers behind the study published in the journal

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