FITNESS I

“The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott

THINK BEFORE YOU EAT

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There is an animal that is a mix of a shark and a ray.

What do you call the hybrid of a shark and ray fish? A Ray shark.

The ray shark also goes by other names including the bowmouth guitarfish or the mud skate, the sole member of the family Rhinidae. This hybrid is a strong swimmer that makes use of its tail fin to propel itself in water in shark-like style. But the irony here is that its chief predator is the tiger shark. Regardless of all the shark-like qualities, the ray fish is officially deemed a species of ray related to skates and guitar fishes.
You can find it in the deep tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific region. It might lurk at depths of up to 90 m, but this has not made it invincible to artisanal and commercial fisheries. The fin is especially sought after, and this has led to this hybrid fish being placed on the list of endangered aquatic specie

The Nobel Prize was created by a man known as “The Merchant of Death.”

Alfred Nobel should have probably been awarded the Nobel Prize for formulating what is regarded by many to be the most prestigious honor in the world: the Nobel Prize.

The prize is way more than an award for being outstanding: it also honors those who have been brilliant for the common good. And prior to dedicating his funds towards searching for and rewarding the best and brightest on the globe, Alfred Nobel was an inventor. And guess what his most prominent invention was? Dynamite.
In 1888, there appeared an obituary of him with a headline that read; ‘The Merchant of Death is Dead’. However, a mistake had been done: Nobel had not yet kicked the bucket. But for some reason the faux-demise announcement bemused him, so much so that word has it that he decided to establish what we all know today as the Nobel Prize in order to protect his future reputation from obituary writers.

Ancient Chinese nobility committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.

You’ve all heard that too much salt – just like everything else that is not done in moderation – is harmful for your health. And you don’t need to be told that too much of it can be fatal. In actual sense, a person only need take a single gram of salt per kilogram of weight to lay themselves on their deathbed.

And in ancient China, this was a method employed by nobility to commit ritual suicide: a pound of salt would be enough to send them to meet their maker – for only they could afford such copious amounts of salt given its high price tag.
You need to find a balance since apparently, too little salt is also deadly for you. Your body needs salt and if you drink lots of water, what you are doing is flushing the salt from your system, thereby leading to fatal Hyponatremia. A woman going by the name Jennifer Strange did something, well, strange: she died for this same reason after she decided to enter into a rather strangely-named competition called ‘Hold your wee for a wii’.