Derrick
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The Internet has brought about great advances in modern society. We can access practically any piece of general knowledge at just the click of a button and then there’s the convenience that email has added to modern business.
But some days it all just gets too much and this is where I see how evolution has let me down. My brain has not evolved fast enough to keep pace with my computer connection.
Today was a prime example.
I had a skim through my RSS feeds only to see that 8 glasses of water a day are not necessarily optimal.
It seems the regulated 2.5 litres a day is one big misunderstanding:
“The misunderstanding is believed to have arisen from a 1945 recommendation that adults should consume 2.5 litres of water daily, one millilitre for every calorie consumed, which was highlighted by the British Medical Journal in December. The crucial part of the recommendation, however – “most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods” – is usually ignored,” reported the Independent.
Another prime example currently assailing the media, and causing my head to hurt, is the debate about mobile devices and brain cancer.
One minute it’s all perfectly safe and fine, the next all sorts of brain tumours have been linked to mobile phone use. Then there are those mealy-mouth researchers who say that only some types of brain cancer are linked to increased use of mobile phones.
It’s no wonder I’m suffering from sensory overload but the truth be told I wouldn’t replace it for all the potatoes in Ireland.
But some days it all just gets too much and this is where I see how evolution has let me down. My brain has not evolved fast enough to keep pace with my computer connection.
Today was a prime example.
I had a skim through my RSS feeds only to see that 8 glasses of water a day are not necessarily optimal.
It seems the regulated 2.5 litres a day is one big misunderstanding:
“The misunderstanding is believed to have arisen from a 1945 recommendation that adults should consume 2.5 litres of water daily, one millilitre for every calorie consumed, which was highlighted by the British Medical Journal in December. The crucial part of the recommendation, however – “most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods” – is usually ignored,” reported the Independent.
Another prime example currently assailing the media, and causing my head to hurt, is the debate about mobile devices and brain cancer.
One minute it’s all perfectly safe and fine, the next all sorts of brain tumours have been linked to mobile phone use. Then there are those mealy-mouth researchers who say that only some types of brain cancer are linked to increased use of mobile phones.
It’s no wonder I’m suffering from sensory overload but the truth be told I wouldn’t replace it for all the potatoes in Ireland.