SYSK Choice: You Are Eating Fake Food & Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Men and women approach online dating very differently and consequently get different results. This classic episode begins with a discussion on who does a better job using online dating – and why. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/08/08/online-dating-study-quantifies-whats-out-of-your-league/?noredirect=on A surprising amount of food sold in stores and restaurants is not what you think it is. Journalist Larry Olmsted author of the book Real Food, Fake Food (https://amzn.to/2ZB8Wif) is here to reveal how and why so much food is not what it pretends to be and how you can protect yourself from being a victim of food fraud. While it is hard to find anything wrong with reading – there is one caution for people who read in bed. Listen to discover how reading can sometimes disrupt your sleep if you are not careful. https://time.com/3642620/why-you-shouldnt-read-a-tablet-before-bed/ Could it be true that vertical stripes don’t make you look slimmer? Did you know that horseshoe crabs save lives? Or that Napoleon was really short at all? These are just a few of the facts discussed with John Lloyd author of the books The Book of General Ignorance (http://amzn.to/2cOd1aL) and The Second book of General Ignorance http://amzn.to/2cyNzq3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Today on something you should know, the different ways men and women use online dating,
0:50.0	and one of them is much more successful than the other.
0:54.0	Then fake food. You'll be amazed at how much food you eat, isn't what you think it is.
0:59.0	The foods that get most commonly defrauded are foods you can't recognize easily by looking at.
1:04.0	So, in national studies, when you buy red snapper and restaurant or retail, you don't get it 94% of the time.
1:11.0	So, like, I don't even know as I've ever had red snapper, even though I've ordered it.
1:16.0	Also, important information for people who read in bed,
1:20.0	and some fascinating facts you never knew, or thought you knew, but turns out we're wrong.
1:26.0	Here's a great one. Vertical Stripes. Every woman knows that vertical stripes make you look slimmer.
1:32.0	They don't. It's horizontal stripes. You need to wear a few other looks slimmer.
1:35.0	This is a big experiment done in England and 2008 on that.
1:39.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:43.0	Something you should know. Fascinating Intel. The world's top experts.
1:49.0	And practical advice you can use in your life today.
1:53.0	Something you should know with Mike Karothers.
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