Why Exercise is Hard and How to Make it Easier & Food Pairings that Taste Sensational

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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One of the benefits of houseplants is that they clean the air in your home or office - right? Well, not exactly. Houseplants are great and they do offer some benefits, but cleaner air is not one of them. This episode begins with a discussion about this that I know you will find interesting. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/health/plants-do-not-clean-indoor-air-trnd-wellness/index.html Exercise is difficult. 80% of us don’t exercise much. If exercise is so important, why is it so hard to do? Are we programmed to be lazy? Well, actually, yes. Daniel Liberman professor of biological sciences and human evolutionary biology at Harvard University joins me to explain why it is so hard to stick with exercise and offers some effective strategies that can help make it easier to incorporate physical fitness into your life. And the really good news is that it doesn’t take much to see huge benefits. Daniel is author of book, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding (https://amzn.to/3bHF51h). Why does tickling make some people laugh? In fact, some people laugh at the mere threat of being tickled while others aren’t ticklish at all. Listen as I reveal the scientific explanation for this and why you can’t tickle yourself. https://www.britannica.com/story/why-cant-you-tickle-yourself Chocolate and peanut butter just go together. And so do a lot of other foods. Listen to this fascinating explanation of why certain foods just go well together like kiwi and oyster or chocolate and bacon as well as other combinations you would never imagine. My guest for this conversation is food scientist Bernard Lahousse co-author of the book The Art and Science of Foodpairing (https://amzn.to/3oPv9GJ). PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! You deserve to know what’s in your multivitamin. That’s why Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit https://ritual.com/something to start your Ritual today. Right now, when you purchase a 3-month Babbel subscription, you’ll get an additional 3 months for FREE. That’s 6 months, for the price of 3! Just go to https://babbel.com and use promo code: SOMETHING https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! M1 Is the finance Super App, where you can invest, borrow, save and spend all in one place! Visit https://m1finance.com/something to sign up and get $30 to invest! The Jordan Harbinger Show is one of our favorite podcasts! Listen at https://jordanharbinger.com/subscribe , Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you enjoy podcasts. Tru Niagen helps us age better by supporting the energy-generating engines that exist in our bodies, helping us restore youthful energy. Go to https://truniagen.com and enter promo code: SOMETHING at checkout to save twenty dollars on your first three-month supply! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.1	Today on something you should know, you've probably heard that houseplants
0:51.7	improve indoor air. But do they really? Then how to make exercise easier? Because most people
0:58.5	don't do it and the benefits are spectacular.
1:01.7	There's evidence that moderate dose of physical activity can reduce the risk of breast cancer
1:06.5	by as much as 30-40% being physically active is by far the best way to prevent Alzheimer's.
1:11.7	Nothing has ever come close to physical activity in terms of prevention, at least 30% reduction.
1:17.2	Also, why does tickling make some people laugh and why can't you tickle yourself?
1:22.6	And the science of food pairings? Why some foods just taste better together?
1:27.5	So for example chocolate and peanut butter or if you like ketchup, add some banana strawberry.
1:34.0	You can combine shrimp with blueberries and almonds. If you have a chocolate mousse,
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