Because plants are the main source of unsaturated fats in your food and animals are the main source of saturated fats in your food, so there are some differences, which are less important because they depend on environmental conditions. One of the reasons of why you need fat in your food is that certain vitamins […]

Besides the destruction or loss of documents exist according to Saul Justin Newman two more reasons for age statistics being unreliable. The second reason is having difficulties to translate documents due to alien expressions and different date formats. The third reason is betrayal! An investigation, which the Japanese government did in 2010, brought to light […]

I have to add something with respect to unsaturated fats and unsaturated fatty acids. They exist in two modalities. Cis and trans. They really are named this way. Like genders. So in the era of Wokeness, most people know the terms cis and trans. Cis-women, cis-men, and cis-fats/ fatty acids occur in nature. Trans-women, trans-men, […]

When due to the Second World War’s aftermath somebody can have two official birth certificates, how much easier and hence more frequent could be that birth certificates simply got lost! Of course only in areas really involved in the Second World War. Like Okinawa, which got almost completely leveled. No wonder that archives there got […]

There are some martial arts, in which I only dipped into. But I each time meant it serious and studied thoroughly! I know more about these martial arts than at least those, who are exercising for recreational purposes or for socializing. So I have to include the lineages of these martial arts in this article […]

Dan Buettner already in 2005 registered Blue Zones as a trademark because he planned to market the Blue Zone lifestyle. All the centenarians in the Blue Zones would have in common that they are physically active, they are socially active, they are religiously active, they are family-oriented, their stress level is low despite all the […]

Do you know East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste? The country, which is located on the eastern half of the otherwise Indonesian Timor Island and became by the UN acknowledged as independent on May, 20th in 2002? At least by now you know something about it. Pencak Silat by the way is the […]

The Belgian demographer Michel Poulain since 2004 conducts research about areas, where several people reached hundred years or more of age. The American author Dan Buettner, who wrote for National Geographic, in 2005 began to collaborate with him. Dan Buettner coined the expression Blue Zones for areas, where many centenarians (these are hundred years old […]

In the second part, the third part, and also the fourth part of this article series, I described fat-related things, for which the type of fat has been irrelevant. So time to advance to the difference between saturated fats and unsaturated fats. Both types consist of a glycerine group, to which three fatty acids are […]

The last two kings of the Eiso Dynasty were Tamagusuku and Seii. Tamagusuku was born in 1296 A.D. and his reign lasted from 1314 A.D. until his death in 1336 A.D. Seii was born in 1328 A.D. and his reign lasted from 1337 A.D. until his death in 1349 A.D. The reigns of the kings […]