Good afternoon 👋
Today marks 107 years since the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, 1919. Health & safety regulations were not fabulous in those days, and many people died who need not have.
A good time to remember: health & safety regulations are written in blood.
Stay safe!
In today’s email we cover the new US diet guidelines, chaga mushrooms, and treating your own gingivitis.
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Today’s Main Feature
What’s The Deal With The New US Diet Guidelines?
There are some surprising changes:
Recommended Reading
Bleeding Down There? Rest Easy Anyway
If you don’t fancy getting up multiple times during the night to reload whatever product you’re using, there are still ways to avoid waking up looking like a crime scene:
Chaga Mushrooms’ Immune & Anticancer Potential
Let’s hear it for the mushroom also known by the name “sterile conk trunk rot”, which is a lot healthier than that makes it sound:
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Watch and Learn
If You Have Gum Disease... Do This!
Gingivitis can be reversed much more easily than periodontitis, so try to catch it before it progresses that far!
Here’s how:
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This Or That?
Vote on Which is Healthier
Yesterday we asked you to choose between cucumber and lychees—we picked the lychees (click here to read about why), as did 49% of you!
Now for today’s choice:
Click on whichever you think is better for you!
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Wishing you the very best of health every day, in every way,
The 10almonds Team
