Month: September 2025

Not all processed foods are a risk to our health. Some tricks can help us choose the best

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Not all processed and ultraprocessed foods They affect the same way To our health. Although the damages of this type of food have been contrasted on numerous occasions, many experts remember that terms such as “processed” and “ultraprocessed” are nothing more than broad categories that can be orientative but sometimes hide a more complex reality. What is an ultraprocess? The first issue we should consider is the question of what is an ultraprocess food? There is no universal response, but the answer is relatively intuitive and we can guide ourselves by the definitions made by experts in the field. An example of this is the so -called nova classification, FAO employeethe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The first category in this classification (Nova1) is reserved for unprocessed or minimally processed foods. The fruit or raw vegetable would be examples of this type of food. A second category (Nova2) is reserved for processed culinary ingredients. This category refers to usual products such as oil, sugar, salt or butter, usually employed in the elaboration of dishes but not consumed alone. Processed and outrage. The two key categories in this context are that of the defendants (Nova3) and Ultraprocess (Nova4). The first of these categories includes foods with intermediate processing, such as legumes and canned fruit, sausages or some smoked foods. An article Posted last year In the magazine BMJ (British Medical Journal) he remembered that, although considering this category at a general level, we find evidence that the ultra -process consumption can be linked to a lower life expectancy, the relationship was more complex. Not all the same. We usually consider that Ultraprocessin general, they are less healthy, dense foods in calories and poor in other nutrients. However, even within this category we can find high diversity. An article Posted last year In the magazine BMJ (British Medical Journal) he remembered that, although considering this category at a general level, we find evidence that the ultra -process consumption can be linked to a lower life expectancy, the relationship was more complex. Three tips to choose better. In A recent article in The conversation, Clare Collins, an expert in nutrition and dietary at the University of Newcastle, in Australia, gave some clues about how we can choose processed foods, and even ultraprocessed, which less risk suppose for our health. The first of the tips is to take time to read the list of product ingredients. The expert recommends looking for those products with less additives and “ingredients that could be found in the kitchen of a house.” It should be remembered that sometimes additives lists hide common products that we do in our kitchens under names or codes, so we cannot assume that all additives are harmful, but the amount of these can give us a clue about the product’s elaboration process. Regarding the label, Collins also recommends looking at the additional information given by products labels. In Spain, for example, we would have the Code Nutriscore that, although it is far from being perfect, it can help us in our decision. Habit. The third and last Collins advice It is “to think about what we eat a product.” Consuming ultraprocessed occasionally will not put our well -being at risk, it is usually doing so when we incur a higher risk. That is why the expert recommends focusing our efforts on those products that we consume once or more per week. In Xataka | To the question of whether ultraprocessed foods are as bad as they have told us, science still has no clear answer Image | Famingjia inventor

change it for curry and rice plates

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Walking through the city of Ambikapur in India, the aroma of the Samous leaves a cafeteria called Garbage Café (Translated: “Basure cafeteria”). The name in itself is striking and has an explanation: here nobody pays with rupees, but with garbage, specifically, with plastic. An unusual restaurant. In a BBC chronicle They have reported the visit To this cafeteria at the beginning of the year. The premises opened in 2019, promoted by the Municipal Ambikapur Corporation (AMC) and financed with its sanitation budget. The motto made it clear: “More The Waste, Better The Taste” (more garbage, better flavor). Today, the restaurant feeds about 20 people every day and has gathered almost 23 tons of plastic in six years, According to municipal data collected by the BBC. The environmental impact is modest in volume, but symbolic: the plastic sent to landfills in Ambikapur was reduced from 5.4 tons per year in 2019 to 2 tons in 2024, according to Ritesh Saini, sanitation coordinator in the city. The backdrop. What happens in this city is relevant because India faces a plastic crisis of global dimensions. According to the Pollution Control Board Central (CPCB)India generates between 3.5 and 4 million tons of plastic waste per year, although other estimates raise the figure to 9 million, depending on the methodologies used. In addition, A THINK TANK CEEW report Summarize the gap: real recycling ranges between 13% and 60%, well below what is necessary. UNEP (UNEP) warns thatwithout structural changes, the global production of plastics could be tripled by 2060, and proposes an approach to “close the tap”: reduce, redesign, reuse and recycle. Besides, A study in Nature On macroplastic emissions, he concluded that in countries of the Global South, such as India, the main factor is unpaid garbage: tons of waste that end in rivers and oceans. Prohibitions against reality. In parallel, the Indian government introduced in 2022 A national prohibition of single -use plastics (bags, straws, cutlery, trays, sticks …) and reinforced the expanded responsibility of the producer (EPR), forcing companies to collect and recycle the containers they put in the market. However, compliance remains irregular, especially among small manufacturers, and much of the effort falls on the informal recycle sector, invisible and exposed to health risks. How does the cafeteria work? The exchange in the Café Garbage is simple, but for those who depend on it it is vital. A plastic kilo is equivalent to a complete dish with rice, vegetable curris, dal, roti bread, salad and pickled; Half a kilo is enough for a breakfast or vada pav breakfast. As the BBC article collectsthe collected material is delivered to the 20 Decentralized Management Centers (SLRM) of the city. There, about 480 women, known as Swachhata Didis (Cleaning sisters), do the door by door and classify the waste into more than 60 categories. This system not only allows most of the materials to be recovered, but also created stable jobs. The final destination is varied. On the one hand, part is granula to make roads or sold to recyclers. On the other hand, organic waste becomes compost. While the non -recyclable fraction is sent to cement companies as an alternative fuel. According to the BBCthis treatment network is one of the keys that have turned Ambikapur into a “zero landfill” city. However, deficiencies persist. While the workers of the centers have gloves and masks, the street collection that carry plastic to the coffee – many vulnerability – do not usually have protection. The Minal Pathak researcher, from the University of Ahmedabad, warns of the risk of handling plastics mixed with organic remains, shear objects or even toxic waste. For people like Rashmi Mondal, a regular user, coffee has meant a relief: “I used to sell the plastic kilo for just 10 rupees (about 12 cents). Now I can feed my family with what I pick up,” explained to the British environment. A model that extends. The formula has not remained in Ambikapur. In Siliguri (West Bengal) It has been offered since 2019 A free meal to those who deliver half a kilo of plastic. That same year, in Mulugu (Telangana), A program was launched which changes a kilo of plastic for another kilo of rice. More recently, in MySuru (Karnataka), the public canteen allow since 2024 Card 500 grams of plastic for a breakfast or a kilo for a complete meal. In Uttar Pradesh, some projects have chosen to deliver compresses to women in exchange for plastic waste. The model also reached the capital. Delhi opened more than 20 coffees in 2020, but most closed shortly after. Those responsible pointed out the lack of waste segregation, low public knowledge and weakness of recycling infrastructure as the main causes, As detailed to the BBC. Beyond the plate. In Ambikapur, a plate of Dal and Rice can start with a bunch of wrappers rescued from the street. For Ram Yadav, A collector interviewed by The Guardian in 2019: “Hot food lasts all day, and it makes me feel that I am on a table like anyone.” It will not solve the plastic or hunger crisis, but it shows that local solutions can add dignity, urban cleaning and collective consciousness. What happens from here – produce less, redesign better, meet the standards and protect those who support the system – will decide whether this experience is a luminous anecdote or the beginning of a broader change. Image | Unspash and Unspash Xataka | The hoteliers promised them happy in a summer of record tourism. Until the ghost reserves arrived

His essential works to enjoy a real roller mountain macabra

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It is, without the slightest doubt, one of the most venerated names of the current Hollywood. His filmography is full of success and commercial failures, but it is undeniable that his peculiar aesthetics, as well as the very recognizable of his visual designs and his themes have made him a venerated author with all the letters. The recent box office success of ‘Bitelchús Bitelchús‘, in which for the first time he has returned to one of his most beloved creatures, and the success of’Wednesday‘In Netflix they invite us to review their filmography. These are the best films of Tim Burton’s long career. Pee Wee’s great adventure (1985) Shared authorship for the debut as director of Tim Burton, even today one of his most irresistibly strange films. Shared because it is a Burton movie, but also by Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, the unclassifiable comic whirlwind that tirelessly seeks his stolen bicycle in this film where the protagonist works as an alter ego of the Burton that we will see growing in successive films: a big child in perpetual state of wonder before the extravagances of the world. Frantic and unpredictable, and that is especially enjoyed in the double program with the lysergic television program presented in the eighties. Bitelchús (1988) When the budgets that Burton managed were still modest, the director was already able to stand an absolutely personal and overflowing world of the issues that would give him fame: sinister humor, strident pop aesthetics, marginalized characters and heard … Winona Ryder in a story that toys with a runaway vision and hooligan of the beyond and how to interact with him with a curious investment of roles: the living are more scary than the dead. Batman (1989) The film that gave the starting gun to the cinema of modern superheroes and the current vision of a hero with multiple faces, such as Batman. Today he has a naive Camp point that makes it endearing, but continues to endure the passage of time thanks to the undisputed quality of his designs, his very well chosen cast and his abundance of iconic moments. A true foundational milestone. Eduardo Handijeras (1990) After the success of ‘Batman’ and before shooting the sequel, Burton returned with an entirely own film, he is much more restrained and romantic than ‘Bitelchús’ (although he would repeat with him Winona Ryder, who for a while became a symbol of his filmography to the same extent as spiral graphics or marginalized characters). Here the story of a monster of great heart and unable to love was supported by extraordinary designs, as well as in purely Burtonian venom traces: of tributes to the cinema of monsters of the universal symbolized in Vincent Price to the indisged criticism of the American residential life through another Camp icon: Tom Jones. Batman Reto (1992) Another founding film, in this case of the cinema of Superheroes “Author”: Burton used the volatile template of Batman to introduce his particular obsessions about the characters outside the society and the misfits, thus coimo to propose a specially dark and expressionist Gotham, and the result is one of the most impressive villain galleries of the superhero cinema. Danny de Vito’s penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer’s catwoman are so complex and fascinating that they are still considered the definitive versions of the characters in the cinema. Ed Wood (1994) Burton took as a starting point a delicious excuse (the crazy biography of the one that was considered as “worst director of the history of cinema”) to consider, precisely, an ode of love to the environment and the enthusiasm necessary to stand up a film, however horrendous. Presenting Wood and his cohort of Freaks (a Bela Lugosi in the last, Tor Johnson, the seer Criswell, vampire) as authentic anti -system virus infiltrated involuntarily in the industry, has its main virtue and its greatest defect at the same point: its absolutely dyed vision of rose of the time and its protagonist. However, a unique biopic and a memorable route of entry in the sewers of the Z fifties. Mars Attacks! (1999) Recovering the Bitelchús hooligan vein and with an absolutely coral and overflowing of stars (to mention only a few: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Clones, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny Devito, Sarah Jessica Parker and many others), Burton took as a start Fifty to get your most satirical and destroying vein for a walk. The result is an acidic comedy full of gore and humor that is visually not as characteristic as other films of its filmography, but spiritually yes. Sleepy Hollow (1999) Up to this point, Tim Burton’s career was unstoppable: more or less moderate box office successes and the appreciation of criticism, which would stop when he signed one of his worst films, the remake of ‘The planet of the apes’. But before, he signed this splendid tribute to Hammer’s horror cinemaoverflowing of unforgettable images and again with an excellent cast in which only a something excessive joins a little. In any case, winks to Bava and Fisher and a great Gothic atmosphere for an absolutely delicious film. Sweeney Todd: The Diabolic Barber of Fleet Street (2007) ‘The planet of the apes’ was the departure gun for a much less interesting burton stage. Although he has his fans, ‘Big Fish’ is not up to his classics, and despite his popularity, ‘Charlie and the chocolate factory’ is very far from both Roald Dahl’s novel and previous adaptation. Where he did partially trace the flight was in ‘Sweeney Todd’, an ambitious version of the 1979 musical that maintains all the great, excessive, excessive gothic charm of the original, with His touch of cloudy romanticism. A wonder of morbid dementia with an absolutely fabulous timeless halo. Alicia in Wonderland (2010) Here this adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s immortal novel does not convince us too much: its flashing aesthetics and its freedoms with the text place it very far from more memorable versions, such as Disney’s own animated. However, their errors (some horrible designs, … Read more

More and more triumphs in leisure than at home

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Spain can boast a rich Gastronomic tradition Based on fish. Neither that, nor his kilometers of coastnor the millions of euros that move the ports of the country every year have prevented, however, fish are going through a particular journey through the desert in Spanish households, a marked by the collapse per capita and the closure of thousands and thousands of fishmongers. After that phenomenon there are several keys, such as cultural and educational changes that affect the purchase or perception that consumers have of their cost, but there is also another interesting factor: we increasingly associate fish to leisure and less to our refrigerators. We may not consider cooking a lubina for noon, but we like to go to dinner Sushi, Sashimi, Pokés or Cebiche. A percentage: 32%. They do not run good times for the fish industry. Not at least in Spain. The fish markets and fishmongers have been losing strength in the shopping basket at a speed that is evident in the consumer data per capita at home calculated by the Ministry: if in 2014 each Spanish consumed on average 26.4 kilos of fish a year, in 2024 that indicator already marked 17.9 kg. In short: a 32% collapse in just a decade. If we expand the comparison the setback is even greater. In 2009 it is They touched the 30 kg. A negative trend. The Last data Nor do they invite optimism. According to the latest tables of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (Map) on domestic consumption, in May each Spaniard ate 1.48 kg, in which 17 euros were spent. The consumption data is more or less similar to that of last year, but moves away from the 2.13 kg of 2015 or 2.33 kg of 2005. In his Sectorial Report More recent, with data from the month of March, the department of Luis Planas warned that in the last year the acquisitions of fish in Spanish homes had fallen 4.3%, a percentage that has been felt especially in businesses with fresh merchandise, rather than in frozen. A figure: 5,000 businesses. The fall in fish purchases not only shows us what we eat at home, it also leaves a clear business reading. That ‘prick’ of consumption has come accompanied by the closure of 5,000 fishmongers in Spain, such as I remembered a few days ago The newspaper. “A third of the 15,000 fishmongers that existed in 2007 has been lost, which means the closure of more than 350 traditional fishmongers per year,” corroborates Fedepesca. “It has also been passed in the same period of 26,237 people in the sector occupied at 18,396”. Although the closure of establishments coincides with changes in consumption and a lower presence of fish in the country’s refrigerators, Fedepesca acknowledges that this is not the only challenge in the sector. “There is no generational relief”, regrets before aiming factors such as commercial schedules or the lack of a firm commitment at the formative level. In an attempt to diversify their income, there are those who have even begun to probe new business roads, such as pet food. Does all fish fall? The truth is that no. And that is one of the keys that help us better understand the changes in the consumption of fish that Spain is living. In your report ‘Fishing month by month’Map points out that there are certain species that have seen their demand increase throughout the last year, such as trout (19.4%), the lubina (18.4%), the sardine and anchovy (11.5%) and the salmon (11%). The demand for salmon and smoked trout have also grown, 25 and 12% respectively. It highlights above all the evolution of the salmon, not so much for its percentage of growth and for its volume, with one of the greatest per capita consumption among the species identified by the map. More fish (away from home). There is another equally interesting indicator. Fish consumption may descend In homesbut his behavior is better away from home. He report Mercasa on “Extra -Roma Consumption” of 2024 suggests that the product is improving its best reception in restaurants, bars, hotels and other businesses where people can eat without cooking. To be more precise, the firm has identified that in 2023 they were consumed through that route almost 150 million kilos2.6% more than in 2022. And although the data is not yet at levels prior to the pandemic, it is the largest since 2019. “It is 6.3 kilos of average per capita consumption. During the last year, 68.1% of consumers between 15 and 75 years have taken fish or seafood in some consumption outside the home,” Mercasa points out Before detailing that when the Spaniards leave home they are interested above all for seafood, such as shrimp and prawns, and squid. “In terms of consumption, fish concentrate 56.6% and the participation of salmon and sardines is significant.” During the first quarter of 2025 the “extra -adntal consumption” of fish has continued to increase, with a growth of 8.1% With respect to the 2024 start. What tells us that? That perhaps we consummate less fish in our homes and in general (sum of the domestic and extra -encouragement channel) we pay less attention when planning our meals, but its demand does not evolve the same at home than outside the home. In fact, fish loss has coincided with the rise in other types of business linked in part to fish: premises specialized in sushi, sashimi, poké and cebiche, dishes of foreign gastronomies in which fish also plays a relevant role. Increasingly associated with leisure. Seen otherwise, fish consumption loses strength in homes, but seems to be reinforced in others oriented to ‘leisure’. From the companies in the sector a problem of “perception” Among consumers related to the price of fish, but the reality is that there are businesses that have managed to take advantage of it. In recent years they have not lacked Voices that They claim That the increase in salmon consumption, one of the … Read more

The only way to confirm the signs of life on Mars is to bring the rock to the earth: there are three great volunteers

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NASA’s Rover Perseverance has given us one of the most exciting news of recent years. In an old river bed in the Jezero crater, he has found a rock that could contain, In the words of NASA directorone of the “clearest signs of life we ​​have seen on Mars.” Baptized as Cheyava Falls, the rock has dark deposits whose chemical, mineral and textural characteristics, on earth, are associated with microbial life. But scientists cannot be safe from here. Unless… Mars Sample Return. Perseverance did his job: in July of last year he identified a place of very high scientific interest, analyzed the rock with its instruments and, most importantly, pierced a core of the rock and kept it in a sealed sampling tube. This little treasure, along with 29 other sampling tubes, waits patiently on the Martian surface. The problem is that, however advanced the instruments of the rover are, they have their limits. To confirm if those possible “biofirmas” are the product of old microorganisms or geochemical processes without biological intervention, there is only one solution: bringing samples to the earth to analyze them in our laboratories. And this is where The plans collide with a hard reality. The plan to collect these samples, the ambitious Mars Sample Return mission, has been de facto canceled waiting for a cheaper and faster solution. Truncated due to lack of budget. NASA’s original plan to collect the 30 samples of the Perseverance Rover was to send a ship to the surface of Mars, that a small rocket would take off with the samples (delivered by Rover itself or by a drone) and that an orbiter (in this case, contributed by the European Space Agency) to bring them back home. The project ended up becoming a bottomless well. According to an external audit, the budget shot up to 11,000 million dollars with an estimated date for 2040. The situation reached such an extent that the US administration He proposed to cancel Mars Sample Return for his excessive budgetprioritizing other programs such as Artemis to return to the moon. NASA was forced to put the project in pause and look for faster and more cheap alternatives. A career to counterreloj. Time runs against NASA. Not only for the potential historical value of these samples, but because China plans to launch its own sampling mission in 2028. Tianwen-3 is a simpler mission, which would not bring selected rocks but from the ground where the probe landed, but that would return to Earth in 2031. It would be a Sorpasso symbolic in full rule, advancing the United States in a milestone that had at hand. Before the collapse of its official plan and the probable symbolic defeat, NASA did what has been best given in recent years: to look at the private sector. The agency Explore two paths simultaneously: one based on public technology already tested, such as the “Sky Crane” landing system of Curiosity and Perseverance, and another open to “new commercial capabilities.” Voluntary companies. They haven’t taken to appear. Lockheed Martin has put on the table a groundbreaking proposal: executing the mission For less than 3,000 million dollars and under a fixed price contract, which means that it would assume any extra cost. Your plan is based on reusing and adapting technology already tested in missions such as Insight and Osiris-Rexwith a simpler and more light architecture than the original Mars Sample Return. Another of the great candidates is Rocket Lab, a company that, despite its youth, also has experience on the red planet: its components travel aboard Perseverance and other missions. Your proposal is to send a probe to collect the samples and send them to the Martian orbit and a second probe to bring them to the earth, with a third probe called Telecommunications Orbiter for Mars (MTO) that not only would support the mission, but would serve as a basis for future manned missions, establishing a robust communications network between Mars and the land that Rocket Lab could exploit commercially for decades. And Spacex? NASA It does not rule out using starship as a vehicle to bring to the Martian surface all the necessary equipment. If Elon Musk fulfills its ambitious deadlines, Starship could offer an unprecedented load capacity to an unbeatable cost. The final decision on which path is expected for the second half of 2026. What is clear is that NASA is at a crossroads. The samples collected by Perseverance have the potential to confirm that on Mars there was extraterrestrial life. But to find the answer, you must first bring them home. And the solution may not be in a public program, but in companies that have offered to do the job for less than half. Image | Rocket Lab In Xataka | Perseverance has found what, according to NASA’s director, is “the clearest indication of life we ​​have seen on Mars”

Esnifar caffeine has become a tool to perform better. Science is not sure if it is safe

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One of the chemical compounds that coffee is is caffeine, and for years It has been subject to numerous myths. It is something that contributed to coffee to earn a certain bad reputation, but numerous studies In recent years they have helped us Understand coffee properties and the Effects of caffeine on the body. Moreover: caffeine has gained popularity as a supplement, so much that it is sold separately in the form of gum or strips. And yes, also in the form of caffeine dust to sniff. Coffee as a supplement. Like almost everything, caffeine has both positive and negative effects. Take coffee or food with caffeine in sleep times, It is not the best decisionbut as a sports supplement, caffeine has proven to be an ally. In certain situations, at least. For example: due to your effect In oxidation of fats, consume caffeine stimulates ‘fat burning’. In team sports such as football, An experiment demonstrated that players who took a dose of caffeine before training made more precise long passes. However, this study presented the counterpart Of the caffeine: when the player had to face situations of stress and thought very fast, as usually happens during a game, decision -making was something worse among those who had consumed caffeine. Therefore, it depends on the sport we do and our goal, but in what can be an individual strength and aerobic training, caffeine has certain effects that we can consider beneficial. One more supplement, go. Cocaffeine. However, caffeine is not only consumed to perform better at the sports level. There are students, drivers or people who simply need it at certain times of the day to feel more awake thanks to their stimulating effectand that is where products that do not seek to provide any more than the amount of caffeine enter. We don’t talk about energy drinks (With huge amounts of caffeine per can, yes, but also a lot of sugar), but of bars, gels, gum (used in the Military scope), pills and even caffeine aerosols. The key here is speed. While having tea or coffee causes caffeine to take half an hour to take effect, with liquid caffeine roads, gels or caffeine patches that dissolve in the mouth, the effects are much faster. There are already those who are offering both mouth and nasal aerosols that seek to activate sensors in the brain or a direct route for absorption in the lungs. The problem? There is no scientific evidence, for the moment, that supports these statements, but there is one more method. Energy sniff. In the image we can see the presentation of ‘Widkraut Energy sniff’, a product that clearly alludes to certain substances. That mountain of white dust or the product name itself is a clear wink. “A widkraut boat contains more than 20 doses of energy,” We read on the webwhere it is also detailed that it does not have tobacco, nicotine or sugar; which is driven by nature and has been clinically tested. Your uses? Work concentrated for longer, endure night shifts or long trips by car, gaming, party nights or pay more in studio and sports sessions. Has a lot of ingredients Different apart from caffeine and claim that, thanks to scientific confirmations by “three clinical studies elaborated by the German Institute most recognized in dermatological studies”, it is safe for the nasal mucosa. Because Energy Sniff, like caffeine aerosols, is consumed by the nose, but in this case, the dust is snorted. Careful. The 60 rations cost 48 euros, similar what costs a kilo of good coffee with more health propertiesbut what is sought here is, as we said, that caffeine arrives as quickly as possible to the bloodstream to begin to circulate through the body causing the desired effects. Returning to Energy Sniff, they clarify that it is harmful in case of ingestion and should only sniff, never exceeding the maximum dose of one gram. There are already studies that They point that these alternative ways of consuming caffeine are not entirely supported by evidence and that more information and analysis is needed. For example, bars and gels are under the magnifying glass to see what real effects they have on athletes, but as we say, it continues to investigate. About sniffing caffeine, it must be clarified that, although the brands (there are others, such as’Want a bump?‘ either ‘WP Energy sniff‘that are promoted the same) They clarify that everything is manufactured using legal ingredientsThey have caused some arqueen an eyebrow. And doctors? That lack of prolonged and conscientious scientific support on the effects not only of caffeine itself, but of the way of taking it to our body, since you have to be careful not to overcome the recommended caffeine doses (special attention in pregnant women) and stop taking it by this way if we feel any discomfort. At the moment, the investigation is focusing In gels, gum and bars as a useful strategy to assimilate caffeine in the shortest possible time. On the other hand, there are doctors who have spoken about it. Shaline Rao is the director of Cardiology at Langone Hospital in Long Island and Comment The aforementioned: “The key is to keep the amount safe and take into account the upper limit to avoid overdose, as well as the appropriate time between them.” Other voices are more criticismreferring to the ease of passing with the amount of caffeine, the possible development of tolerance that leads to increase the dose little by little harmful effects in the mucosa. For the American FDA, directlyconcentrated caffeine products are “a serious threat to public health” and in France, directly, His sale was prohibited In 2024. Viewing the boom in this form of consumption, it is now on the roof of science to check the risks and if it is worth against aerosols, gels or gum. In Xataka | The best trick to make coffee in the Italian coffee maker is not to make coffee in the Italian coffee maker

They have needed six years, dozens of patrols and a helicopter

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Czech police He has managed to arrest To the driver who for years surprised all the Internet for appearing sporadically on the highways of the country at the wheel of a car. The 51 -year -old man was arrested after a persecution that involved several patrol cars and a helicopter. One last time. It all started last Sunday 8:15 in the morning when the agents They received the notice of a formula 1 car reposting in a gas station near Dobříš, about 40 kilometers southwest of Prague. Two minutes later a second call arrived: the vehicle circulated at high speed on the D4 highway in the southern direction. In just 15 minutes, the driver was intercepted in the town of Buk. There was resistance. The images of the arrest, where the police claim that they were recorded by the driver himself And his son shows a tense confrontation of almost ten minutes. The pilot, dressed in his red monkey and helmet, refused to leave the car arguing that the police were invading a private property. “There is a policeman everywhere,” you hear screaming in the recordings. He finally gave up and was transferred to be interrogated, although he refused to declare. Six years of search. The persecution of this “ghost pilot” It began in 2019when the first videos of the car appeared circulating on Czech highways. In 2022 he was sighted again, but on all occasions the helmet prevented the driver. The speed radars captured the images, but the investigation stagnated again and again. According to Czech police, They had already located And questioned the vehicle owner in the past, who denied having driven him by road. The legal problem. In case there was any doubt, circulating with this type of vehicles on public roads is prohibited in the Czech Republic. The car lacks lights, flashing, registration and other mandatory security elements. “Race cars of this type cannot legally circulate on the roads because they do not meet the legal technical requirements,” They explained The authorities. There is also the theme of the sharp edges of the vehicle, since they represent a danger for both the driver and the people circulating around. The truth about the Ferrari. Although the driver himself and the media have described him as a Ferrari of Formula 1, automobile experts They have identified The vehicle like a Dallara GP2/08, a car developed by the Italian manufacturer for the GP2 series, a category that functioned as prelude to Formula 1 and that is now known as Formula 2. It is commented that the driver came the entire car to look like a F1 ferrari. The consequences. The case has now passed to the corresponding administrative body to determine the sanction. The driver faces a fine of between 5,000 and 10,000 Czech crowns (between 200 and 400 euros) and the withdrawal of the driving license for a period of six months to one year. The detainee’s son think That the police response has been disproportionate, with “several dozen patrol cars and a helicopter for an alleged traffic infraction.” In Xataka | For Shaquille O’Neal the biggest obstacle to conducting a supercar is its height: they have manufactured a tailored corvette

There are American and Europeans fed up with the lack of “traditional values” of the West. So they are moving to Russia

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Surprising data were known last May: more and more Americans sought to leave the country to Live in Europe. The problem: that the old continent seemed to be closing its doors with migratory policies stricter. What very few anticipated is a new migratory current: that of Westerners who, seeking to recover the “traditional values” that have been lost … and end in Russia. The attraction for the Russia of War. I told it last week The Financial Times. In full invasion of Ukraine and under an increasingly repressive regime, a group of Westerners has chosen to move to Russia in search of what they perceive as “traditional values” in front of a west who consider decadent. Among the most notorious cases is Derek Huffman’san Arizona welder and father of six children, who emigrated with his wife and children alleging rejection of “LGBT indoctrination”, immigration and insecurity in the United States. To accelerate the obtaining of Russian citizenship, he decided to enroll in the Army and fight in Ukrainedefending Even on YouTube that he did to gain respect and a future in his new country. His extreme case has received criticism and also media attentionbecoming a symbol of a reduced but very publicized phenomenon. The “visa of shared values”. Moscow launched in 2024 A special visa For disenchanted western, which facilitates permanent residence to about 150 people per month, a measure that reminds of Soviet propaganda that opposed a corrupt West to a supposedly moral Russia. Although in numbers they are just A few hundredtheir stories receive great diffusion in YouTube channels with Professional productionseveral of them linked to Russia Today According to researchwhich suggests a state effort to amplify the narrative of Russia as a refuge for the conservatives of the West. Examples and integration networks. There are many more cases in addition to the Huffman, such as The one of the Feenstraa Canadian family with eight children who settled on a farm in Nizhni Nóvgorod and reached almost 200,000 subscribers On YouTube, or Stephen Shoresan American computer scientist turned to orthodoxy who claims to feel freer in Russia against the “culture of cancellation”, although he lives under the threat of Ukrainian drones. At the institutional level, figures such as Maria Butina (former Russian agent deported in the United States) and businessmen such as The German Jakob Pinneker They help these immigrants to integrate, facilitating their installation and extolling the “family order and values.” Contradictions and realities. While the Kremlin exhibits these cases as proof of its appeal, the reality is that tens of thousands of Russians They have fled since 2022 to avoid mobilization, political repression and international isolation. In the country itself, thousands of people fulfill condemns for protesting against war or publicly disagree with the regime. The paradox It is evident: Those who come from the West Echoes of the Cold War. What we see today has clear historical parallels with the Soviet strategy during the Cold War. At that time, the USSR I tried to attract to intellectuals, artists and western militants who felt marginalized or frustrated with the capitalism and politics of their countries. Many communists and supporters They traveled to Moscow convinced That there they would find equality and social justice, some even acquired Soviet citizenship or were used in propaganda campaigns that showed the “exploitative west” against “socialist paradise.” The most emblematic case was that of The deserters North Americans who, after the Korean or Vietnam War, sought refuge in the USSR or allies like Cuba and North Korea, converted in trophies ideological. Strategic background. The flow of Westerners to Russia is minimal in figures, but useful in the propaganda plane. Under the official narrative, it reinforces the idea that Russia is not isolated and that even citizens of the Western enemy seek refuge under their flag for reasons of values ​​and morals. In the geopolitical plane, it points to an attempt to counteract the story of a country in crisis and project the image of cultural strength against a fragmented West. Of course, social also reveals the existence of disenchanted minorities In Europe and the United States that, not finding lace in their societies, becomes something very similar to useful pieces for Moscow’s speech. Image | RakoonDerek Huffman/YouTube In Xataka | More and more Americans want to live outside the US but they have a problem: Europe is closing its doors In Xataka | Digital nomadic visas: the countries hook to attract the best digital talent without paying the cost to keep them

In Japan, the average trains delay is 96 seconds. It is not magic, his secret is called “Paka-Yoke”

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We are not going to discover anything if we tell you that the high Spanish speed has not lived its best summer. To get an idea, Four out of 10 Renfe trains They have suffered some type of delay. We have had breakdowns, Lost trains during the night and the final tip of the fires. But beyond summer, the truth is that the Spanish road network is giving important symptoms of fatigue. Only last June, The birds arrived with a medium delay of 19 minutes About the scheduled time. In April the figure was almost 21 minutes. According to the published report by the company, of the 9,607 trains that circulated last June, only one in three arrived in time Or they were delayed less than five minutes. We know this because Renfe herself has published it but the breakdowns have also affected the trains of Iryo and Ouigo that have to circulate on the same ways. The data point to two possible reasons. First, Spain begins to give symptoms of having an infradimensive infrastructure to host the arrival of new operators (OUIGO and IRYO) and a Growth sustained in the number of trips. Second, the data warn that not enough has been invested in maintenance and modernization of the roads. It is very likely that the situation we are living is a mixture of both reasons. But a question overwhelm: if in Spain we have problems with three trains companies … how do they work in Japan where six different companies operate? 96 seconds Move by Japan, especially for Honshu (his main island in which cities like Tokyo, Kyoto or Osaka are found) is very simple if you decide on the high -speed train. The frequencies are so bulky and the delays so exceptional that the reliability in the system is absolute. The known as Japan Rail It can, also, be chaos for those who visit the country for the first time, taking into account that even Six companies operate on their lines. However, each of them has its own reserved space so they do not compete on the same roads as it happens in Spain where Renfe has to deal with Iro and Ouigo. Despite this, four of those Six companies (JR East, JR Central, JR West and JR Kyushu) are completely privatized and only two (JR Hokkaido and JR Shikoku) are state -owned. There is, however, a fundamental difference. In Spain, following European orders, the management of the roads falls exclusively on Adif (which was public and also had to be privatized) that charges some canons to companies that want to operate in their railway framework. AND The roads are shared partly between medium distance and high speed trains. In Japan, however, companies manage infrastructure and maintenance of the roads in which they operate but the network of Shinkansenthe famous bullet trains, have a completely separated infrastructure from the rest of the trains and is managed by the Railway Construction, Transportation and Technology Agency of Japan (JRTT). This physical separation allows to reduce the risks (a fault of a slower train does not impact bullet trains) and install systems specifically designed for this type of trains. That has allowed them to evolve the acquaintance concept of Paka-Yoke which can be translated as “failure proof”, referring to the fact that all human decisions are supervised by an exahustive system monitoring system, which shields the network of those possible human errors. This has allowed Japan to be a reference in world high speed. Until Spain and China surpassed the country in railway kilometers of this type of trains, the Japanese country was a leader but it still is in punctuality. In 2024, The average delay in the Tokaid line was 96 seconds. However, systems are designed for trains to enter a margin of 15 seconds at the station. Most of them stop in the first 6 seconds scheduled. Japanese punctuality is an extremely valued quality. Culture forces to ask for public forgiveness when schedules are not fulfilled, sometimes reaching surreal extremes. Like the day that a railway company had to make its face because one of its trains He left the station 20 seconds earlier than expected. Photo | Henry Perks In Xataka | Japan asked its citizens what bothers them most about tourists on the train. The responses betrayed the nation

everything you should consider to choose the one that best suits you

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Do you want to buy the new iPhone? Well, we are going to tell you the whole process and everything you should take into account, from the previous steps with your current Android or iPhone phone to what you can do with it, or how to choose the model you want to buy. The idea is to serve you as a guide if you have no experience when buying state -of -the -art iPhones at the time of the output. And if you have experience with these purchases and you have some advice to give, you can leave it in the comments section so that everyone can benefit from it. Have everything prepared on your current mobile Before changing phone, it is important that you have everything prepared on your current mobile. For a start, Make a backup of your phoneso that all data is saved in the cloud. But from here, the rest of the previous steps depends on the mobile phone you have. If you go to go from iPhone to iPhone, Everything will be much simpler. You just have to make a backup, and then these data will be downloaded to the new iPhone as soon as you link the same Apple account you had in the previous one. If you still have the old mobile when you receive the new one, you will have an assistant that will allow you to connect them so that the migration of the data is even easier. If you go to go from Android to iPhonethen the previous steps are a bit more complex. First you have to make a backup of all your data on your Google account, and then it is recommended that when you have the Neuvo iPhone install these Google applications to continue using your data. There is the possibility that you end up deciding download your Google apps datalike the data of your contacts or your photos to use Apple’s native apps. This will then be some extra steps, but it is important that you first have a copy made of your previous phone. Keep in mind that if you change android to iphone you will lose the games bought, and it is possible that the data of some applications also, although most of them should have your centralized data on their servers so that you do not lose anything. But for example at WhatsApp, backups are made on Google Drive and Icloud, that is, you will lose everything. Both for WhatsApp and to facilitate migrate all Android data to iPhoneApple has the application Go to iOS, Available on Google Play. To use it you need Keep your Android mobile to configure the iPhone Before getting rid of him. The app connects your Android mobile to transfer the data in a safe way. Once all your data migns, it is important format your current mobile To erase everything in it, all photos, your chats and apps, everything. This you just have to do it once you transfer the data to the new phone. Consider selling your current mobile The new iPhone are not cheap, but a way in which you can try to maximize the return of your previous investment is Sell ​​your current mobile After buying the new one or at the time of making your reservation. For this you have several methods available. First of all, Apple has a program called Trade in. With him, when you make the reserve of the new iPhone you can assess the current yours to sell it, and that money enters you. First you pay everything, and then they return the value of the current mobile. Mobile assessment is not the bestbut it is not low either. Of course, when time passes from the launch of the new iPhone the assessment of the ancients will go down. As an alternative, Other large surfaces also offer their own renewal plansand in almost all cases you can also deliver your Android mobile. In some cases the valuations are usually lower than that of Apple, as is the case of the Resellers, but large surfaces of the MediaMarkt, FNAC or the English Court level can have interesting offers. And finally, you can turn to second -hand stores, or even sell to another with platforms such as Wallapop or Vinned. In the latter case is where you have a potentially higher assessment, although you will have to deal with many bargaining and possibly never get what you want. In this case, my advice is that you use Apple’s assessment or a large platform as a base, and from there you give you a few days to try to sell it to another person by sale platforms. And if you think they are not offering you enough to have the effort worthwhile, then you stay with the valuation of the record surface or Apple itself. What a new iPhone adapts to what you need Apple has presented four new iPhonewhich are the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. Each of them has its own differentiating characteristics, so knowing a bit the public to which each of them is focused is key to make your choice. Because you don’t have to go for the best and more expensive without more, because perhaps another adapts better to the use you want to give. Here, there is marking that Some characteristics are sharedlike the front with Ceramic Shield 2, three times more scratch resistant. All are also submersible up to 6 meters deep for a maximum of 30 minutes, and they have a frontal with a square sensor with which to take photos horizontally or vertically in any orientation. An iPhone 17 for most iPhone 17 The iPhone 17 is the model indicated for most users, at least For those who do not need a very triple camera or a triple camera. If you do not play the most powerful games in the catalog on the iPhone and if you … Read more

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