Craving These Foods? This Is What Your Body Really Needs

1. Chocolate and Magnesium

If you’re like me and can’t drink your morning coffee without a square of 70% cacao on hand, your body might be lacking magnesium, a macromineral found in fresh fruits, nuts, and legumes.

2. Bread and Nitrogen

If you crave bread, you could be low in nitrogen. Instead of toast, reach for some trail mix – nuts fill you up for longer, and their nutritional density gives you more of a bang for your (calorie) buck than bread ever could.

3. Sweets and Chromium

If you struggle with sugar cravings, you’re not alone. Sugar has been scientifically compared to cocaine in terms of its addictive qualities, and can be found in all sorts processed foods, hidden by names like cane syrup, fructose, and molasses. If you’re always craving sweets, your body may be lacking chromium, a mineral found in foods like broccoli, cheese, and grapes.

So next time you’re dying for some sugar, forget the candy – pour yourself a glass of wine, and snack on some grapes and cheese instead.

4. Carbonated Drinks and Calcium

Feel like you can’t kick your La Croix addiction? A calcium deficiency may be the cause. Calcium, a nutrient found in greens like kale and broccoli, is a macromineral essential to your health. If you’re on your sixth can of the day, do your teeth a favor and make yourself a kale smoothie instead.

The Lantern of the Photuris Firefly

THE lantern, or light organ, of a particular Photuris firefly is covered with jagged scales that dramatically enhance the brightness of the light that the insect produces. * Jagged scales Consider: Researchers have found that tiny scales on the lantern surface of some fireflies form a corrugated pattern, somewhat like overlapping shingles or tiles. The scales tilt up at one end by just 3 micrometers —less than one twentieth the thickness of a human hair. Yet this tiny tilt lets the lantern shine almost 50 percent more brightly than it would if the scales formed an even surface!

An Overview of Indonesia

Land Straddling the equator between Australia and continental Asia, Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago. Most of its more than 17,500 islands feature rugged mountains and dense tropical forests. With more than 100 active volcanoes, it is also the most active volcanic region on earth.

PORTRAITS FROM THE PASTIgnaz Semmelweis

IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS may not be a household name, yet his work has benefited most modern families. Born in Buda (now Budapest), Hungary, he received his medical degree at the University of Vienna in 1844. On taking up his post as assistant to a professor at the First Maternity Clinic of Vienna’s General Hospital in 1846, Semmelweis faced an appalling reality —more than 13 percent of the women giving birth there died from a disease called childbed fever. Various theories as to the cause of this disease had been proposed, yet no one had solved the mystery. All attempts to reduce the mortality rate proved futile. Troubled by the spectacle of numerous mothers suffering a slow, agonizing death, Semmelweis determined to find the cause of the disease and prevent it.

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