Interesting facts about sugar.

Interestingly, over the past 20 years, human sugar consumption has increased to 40 kilograms per year.

The fact is that sugar is part of most foods (bread, butter, seasonings, sauces, etc.). Sugar increases insulin levels, which prevents the release of growth hormone and inhibits the immune system.In addition, too much insulin contributes to fat accumulation. An interesting fact is that sugar gives the body calories (4 calories in 1 gram of sugar), but has no useful substances. The consumption of food with a high sugar content allows you to gain weight quickly and increases the level of triglycerides, which is associated with the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

In some countries, sugar from sugar cane and corn is fermented into alcohol, which is mixed with gasoline and used as fuel for cars called gasohol.

A teenager between the ages of 11 and 14 should eat no more than 65 g of sugar in one day (13 teaspoons). A bottle of cola contains about 35g of sugar, and a bar of chocolate contains about 30g of sugar.

Sugar is a natural preservative that prevents spoilage of products, and in addition is used for tanning leather, is added to printer ink, is part of adhesives.

An interesting fact, in the 16th century, one teaspoon of sugar cost 5 pounds.

Interesting facts about rubber.

There is a misconception that Europeans owe the invention of rubber to Columbus. In fact, the navigator only left a description of how the natives of the islands of Haiti played with a ball made of thickened milky juice that flowed from cuts on the bark of the Brazilian hevea. When the sap dripped from the tree, it seemed to the Indians that it was crying. Therefore, they began to call this plant a "crying tree– - from the Indian words kau ("tree") and uchu ("cry"). Much later, Europeans who visited America got to know rubber better and even learned, like the locals, to soak their raincoats with the juice of a rubber-bearing tree. But rubber came to the Old World only in 1751. A little frozen juice was brought by mathematician Charles La Condamine. He watched his "trophy" for a long time, but could not figure out what benefit rubber could bring to him personally and to humanity as a whole. Interesting facts about rubber Elasticity syndrome

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Interesting facts about cockroaches.

Cockroaches have white blood that flows freely through the body. In other words, they do not have blood vessels designed to conduct blood. Interestingly, even the heart of this insect is like a simple tube that pumps blood to the front and back of the body. The eye of this insect has 4000 segments that help to see all directions at one time. An interesting fact is that a cockroach can live without a head, since the brain of a cockroach is not in the head, but throughout the body. But without a head, they can die within ten days, due to lack of water, because they have nothing to drink. Interestingly, cockroaches spend most of their time (about 75%) in hibernation. Cockroaches are widely used in folk medicine. Cockroach tea is used to treat dropsy, and cockroaches fried with garlic are used to treat stomach upset. In the east, cockroaches are used in dried and powdered form for the treatment of the urinary tract. Cockroaches can live for

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Interesting facts about Bruce Lee.

At the age of 32, during the filming of the movie "The Game of Death", Bruce Lee died unexpectedly. Interestingly, the film company rewrote the script as if Bruce's character faked his death to get away from the mafia. Moreover, the film included footage from the real funeral of Bruce Lee — including close-up shots of an open coffin. Most martial arts movies speed up to make beautiful fighting scenes, but not in the case of Bruce Lee. His movements were too fast for the eye and therefore the battle scenes were shot at a frequency of 32 frames per second, and then slowed down so that the audience could see his movements. Bruce Lee's family gave him the feminine name "Little Phoenix" because they believed that evil spirits did not like boys in the family (their first-born son died in infancy). And the name Bruce was recorded in his documents by a nurse from the hospital in San Francisco, where he was born (Bruce's father was traveli

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