Sunday, October 18, 2026

Bread Stays Fresh For 7 Days Longer Without A Breadbox If Stored With 1 Simple Item

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It may seem obvious to store bread in a breadbox, but many people are looking to find alternative means to keep bread fresh due to how clunky this device is. Melissa K Norris, a homestead expert, has shared that while breadboxes help keep bread fresh, they can often be clunky and take up too much kitchen countertop space. She said: “The downfall of a bread box is they do take up a large amount of space, so they may not be a great option for those without extra counter space.”……….Continue reading…

By Katherine McPhillips

Source:  Express.co.uk

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Breadboxes are still used by many people to store commercially purchased bread, but are used more especially by people who bake bread at home. They are usually made of metal, wood or sometimes pottery (pottery breadboxes are also called bread crocks). Old breadboxes can be collectible antiques.

Breadboxes are most commonly big enough to fit one or two average size loaves of bread—up to about 16 inches wide by 8 to 9 inches high and deep (40 cm × 20 cm × 20 cm). Stale bread is colloquially called “dry”, but drying and staling are distinct processes. Stale bread can weigh the same as “fresh” bread, indicating almost no loss of water; conversely, bread can be dried out without going stale.

Staling is a process of retrogradation, in which the starch transposes to a crystalline form in the presence of the water contained within the bread itself. The process speeds up at cooler temperatures, such as under refrigeration, and thus bread stored at room temperature remains fresher for longer periods than refrigerated bread. Frozen bread, however, traps the moisture as ice, and prevents the staling process.

Breadboxes are thus designed to:

  • keep their contents at room temperature, prolonging edible storage time;
  • have a lid loose enough to allow airflow, reducing condensation, which helps to prevent the formation of mold;
  • have a lid tight enough to slow the drying process as well as to protect the contents from mice and all other pests, including ants and flies.

Bread stored in the refrigerator will dry out and become stale much faster than bread stored at room temperature. For longer-term storage, you should freeze bread. Soft-crusted, pre-sliced breads will keep fresh for up to a week at room temperature; be sure to keep the original packaging tightly closed after each use. 

Soft-crusted, unsliced breads will keep well for four to five days on the counter, while hard-crusted breads will keep fresh for a day or two. All of these breads freeze well and will maintain their quality for at least three months once frozen. 

Saturday, October 17, 2026

A 24 Year Study Uncovers A Surprising Climate Benefit Beneath Forests

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Forest soils are playing a surprisingly powerful role in removing methane from the atmosphere, and new findings suggest that certain effects of climate change could make them even better at it. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, but microorganisms living in the soil can break it down before it builds up in the air. Scientists from the University of Göttingen and the Baden-Württemberg Forest Research Institute (FVA) analyzed the world’s most comprehensive collection of long-term measurements of methane absorption by forest soils………Continue reading…

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Temperate needleleaf forests mostly occupy the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, as well as some warm temperate areas, especially on nutrient-poor or otherwise unfavourable soils. These forests are composed entirely, or nearly so, of coniferous species (Coniferophyta). In the Northern Hemisphere, pines Pinus, spruces Picea, larches Larix, firs Abies, Douglas firs Pseudotsuga, and hemlocks Tsuga make up the canopy; but other taxa are also important.

In the Southern Hemisphere, most coniferous trees (members of Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae) occur mixed with broadleaf species, and are classed as broadleaf-and-mixed forests. Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests include a substantial component of trees of the Anthophyta group. They are generally characteristic of the warmer temperate latitudes, but extend to cool temperate ones, particularly in the southern hemisphere.

They include such forest types as the mixed deciduous forests of the United States and their counterparts in China and Japan; the broadleaf evergreen rainforests of Japan, Chile, and Tasmania; the sclerophyllous forests of Australia, central Chile, the Mediterranean, and California; and the southern beech Nothofagus forests of Chile and New Zealand.

There are many different types of tropical moist forests, with lowland evergreen broad-leaf tropical rainforests: for example várzea and igapó forests and the terra firme forests of the Amazon Basin; the peat swamp forests; dipterocarp forests of Southeast Asia; and the high forests of the Congo Basin. Seasonal tropical forests, perhaps the best description for the colloquial term “jungle”, typically range from the rainforest zone 10 degrees north or south of the equator, to the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.

Forests located on mountains are also included in this category, divided largely into upper and lower montane formations, on the basis of the variation of physiognomy corresponding to changes in altitude. Tropical dry forests are characteristic of areas in the tropics affected by seasonal drought. The seasonality of rainfall is usually reflected in the deciduousness of the forest canopy, with most trees being leafless for several months of the year.

Under some conditions, such as less fertile soils or less predictable drought regimes, the proportion of evergreen species increases and the forests are characterised as “sclerophyllous”. Thorn forest, a dense forest of low stature with a high frequency of thorny or spiny species, is found where drought is prolonged, and especially where grazing animals are plentiful. On very poor soils, and especially where fire or herbivory are recurrent phenomena, savannas develop.

Sparse trees and savanna are forests with sparse tree-canopy cover. They occur principally in areas of transition from forested to non-forested landscapes. The two major zones in which these ecosystems occur are in the boreal region and in the seasonally dry tropics. At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forestland, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuously closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.

This vegetation is variously called open taiga, open lichen woodland, and forest-tundra. A savanna is a mixed woodland–grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer that consists primarily of grasses. Savannas maintain an open canopy despite a high tree density.

Forest plantations are generally intended for the production of timber and pulpwood. Commonly mono-specific, planted with even spacing between the trees, and intensively managed, these forests are generally important as habitat for native biodiversity. Some are managed in ways that enhance their biodiversity protection functions and can provide ecosystem services such as nutrient capital maintenance, watershed and soil structure protection and carbon storage.

The term forest-dependent people is used to describe any of a wide variety of livelihoods that are dependent on access to forests, products harvested from forests, or ecosystem services provided by forests, including those of Indigenous peoples dependent on forests. In India, approximately 22 percent of the population belongs to forest-dependent communities, which live in close proximity to forests and practice agroforestry as a principal part of their livelihood.

People of Ghana who rely on timber and bushmeat harvested from forests and Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest are also examples of forest-dependent people. Though forest-dependence by more common definitions is statistically associated with poverty and rural livelihoods, elements of forest-dependence exist in communities with a wide range of characteristics. Generally, richer households derive more cash value from forest resources, whereas among poorer households, forest resources are more important for home consumption and increase community resilience.

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Genetic Risk For Anorexia May Begin Outside The Brain

A new genetic study reveals that individuals with severe anorexia nervosa are nearly four times more likely to carry rare, damaging mutations in PLIN4, a gene primarily expressed in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle rather than the central nervous system. The discovery challenges the longstanding assumption that anorexia is purely a psychiatric or brain-based condition, highlighting peripheral metabolic dysfunction in lipid storage as a key biological driver………Continue reading…

By: Bethany Mauger

Source:  Neuroscience News

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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by attempts to lose weight by way of starvation. A person with anorexia may exhibit a number of signs and symptoms, the type and severity of which may vary, or be present without being readily apparent. Although anorexia is often recognized by physical indicators, it is a mental disorder that can occur at any body weight; in cases where body mass index (BMI) remains at a healthy level in adults, but other symptoms are present, the diagnosis may be atypical anorexia nervosa instead.

Anorexia, and the associated malnutrition from self-imposed starvation, causes complications in every major organ system in the body. It can cause permanent changes in the brain due to a lack of essential nutrients in the body. Hypokalemia, a drop in the level of potassium in the blood, is a sign of anorexia: a significant drop in potassium can cause abnormal heart rhythms, constipation, fatigue, muscle damage, and paralysis.

Interoception involves the conscious and unconscious sense of the internal state of the body, having an important role in homeostasis and regulation of emotions. Aside from noticeable physiological dysfunction, interoceptive deficits also prompt individuals with anorexia to concentrate on distorted perceptions of multiple elements of their body image. This exists in both people with anorexia and in healthy individuals, due to impairment in interoceptive sensitivity and interoceptive awareness.

Aside from weight loss and external appearance, people with anorexia may also report abnormal bodily functions, such as indistinct feelings of fullness.[56] This is due to miscommunication between internal signals of the body and the brain. Due to impaired interoceptive sensitivity, powerful cues of fullness may be detected prematurely in highly sensitive individuals, which add to decreased calorie consumption and generate anxiety surrounding food intake in anorexia patients.

People with anorexia also report difficulty identifying and describing their emotional feelings, and an inability to distinguish emotions from bodily sensations in general (known asalexithymia), likely due to the miscommunication of signals within the body. Interoceptive awareness and emotion are deeply intertwined. Anorexia patients also exhibit emotional regulation difficulties that ignite emotionally-cued eating behaviors, such as restricting food or excessive exercising.

Impaired interoceptive sensitivity and interoceptive awareness can lead anorexia patients to adapt distorted interpretations of weight gain that are cued by physical sensations related to digestion (e.g. fullness). Combined, these interoceptive and emotional elements could together trigger maladaptive and negatively reinforced behavioral responses that contribute to the maintenance of anorexia.

In addition to metacognition, people with anorexia also have difficulty with social cognition, including interpreting others’ emotions and demonstrating empathy. Abnormal interoceptive awareness and interoceptive sensitivity shown through all of these examples have been observed so frequently in anorexia that they have become key characteristics of the illness.

Both prenatal and perinatal obstetric complications may factor into the development of anorexia nervosa, such as preterm birth, maternal anemia, diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia, placental infarction, and neonatal heart abnormalities. Neonatal complications may also have an influence on harm avoidance, one of the personality traits associated with the development of anorexia.

Neuroendocrine dysregulation—the altered signaling of peptides that facilitate communication between the gut, brain and adipose tissue, such as ghrelin, leptin, neuropeptide Y and orexin—may contribute to the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa by disrupting regulation of hunger and satiety. People with gastrointestinal diseases may be more at risk of developing disorders of eating practices than the general population, principally with restrictive eating disturbances.

An association of anorexia with celiac disease has been found. Individuals with good dietary management may develop anxiety, food aversion, and eating disorders because of concerns around cross contamination of their foods. Some authors suggest that medical professionals should evaluate the presence of unrecognized celiac disease in all people with an eating disorder, especially if they present any gastrointestinal symptoms .

Such as decreased appetite, abdominal pain, bloating, distension, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, weight loss, or growth failure. It is also recommended to routinely ask celiac patients about weight or body shape concerns, and dieting or vomiting for weight control to evaluate the possible presence of an eating disorder, especially in women.

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Bread Stays Fresh For 7 Days Longer Without A Breadbox If Stored With 1 Simple Item

(Image: Getty) It may seem obvious to store bread in a breadbox, but many people are looking to find alternative means to keep bread fresh d...