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Something You Should Know

What Distractions Do To Your Brain & What You Never Knew About Your Pharmacy

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today on something you should know, what's the difference between ice cream, premium ice cream, gelato and frozen yogurt? I'll explain that.

0:45.0

Then we live in a world of distractions. It's become hard to pay attention and focus. And yet, the pleasures of getting back your focus are so much greater than whatever, TikTok or Instagram or whatever.

0:59.0

When you can think deeply, your life is so much better.

1:03.0

Also, what you need to know about that 4 digit pin you use for your phone and the ATM. And making sense of the pharmacy.

1:12.0

For instance, what's the difference between all those pain relievers? The bottom line seems to be that over-the-counter medications, acetymenophen, ibuprofen or niproxen, asperic that they all work about the same.

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Hi. You know, I don't think I've ever met anybody who doesn't like ice cream. So we'd start the episode today with a discussion about ice cream. There are a lot of choices out there in the marketplace. Premium ice cream, for example, has between 11 and 15% butter fat.

3:43.0

It's richer and denser and it tends to come in those small gourmet containers. Regular ice cream is less dense, has about 10% butter fat. And that's why you'll usually find it in the bigger containers.

3:58.0

Light ice cream means there's supposed to be either less fat or less calories, but there is actually no legal definition of light ice cream.

4:08.0

In the US ice cream has a definition and part of the definition is it must contain butter fat. So vegan ice cream isn't technically ice cream.

4:20.0

So if serve ice cream is great, especially if you're prone to brain freeze, it's stored and served at a lower temperature. It can be tastier too because it doesn't numb the taste buds as much.

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