Beetroot vs Carrot – Which is Healthier?
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Our Verdict
When comparing beetroot to carrots, we picked the carrots.
Why?
It was close! And beetroot does have its advantages, but we say carrots win on balance.
In terms of macros, these two root vegetables are close to identical, down to both having 9.57g carbs per 100g, and 2.8g fiber per 100g. Technically, beetroot has a smidgen more protein, but nobody’s eating these for their tiny protein content. So, a tie in this category.
In the category of vitamins, it’s not close and the margins are mostly huge: beetroot has a little more vitamin B9, while carrots have a lot more of vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C, E, and K. Thus, a clear win for carrots in this round.
Looking at minerals next, superficially it swings the other way, but the margins this time are small. Nevertheless, beetroot has more copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, and zinc, while carrots have more calcium. The margins of difference being small, this means a modest victory for beetroot here.
In other considerations, beetroot has a generous betalain content and especially betanin, while carrots have more carotenoids (who’d have guessed?). So, we’re calling this round a tie.
Adding up the sections gives an even result, but the tie-breaker is the huge margins in the vitamins category, so carrots take the overall win today. But by all means do enjoy either or both, as diversity is best!
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Avoiding/Managing Osteoarthritis
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Avoiding/Managing Osteoarthritis
Arthritis is the umbrella term for a cluster of joint diseases involving inflammation of the joints, hence “arthr-” (joint) “-itis” (suffix used to denote inflammation).
Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory Arthritis
Arthritis is broadly divided into inflammatory arthritis and non-inflammatory arthritis.
Some forms, such as rheumatoid arthritis, are of the inflammatory kind. We wrote about that previously:
See: Avoiding/Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis
You may be wondering: how does one get non-inflammatory inflammation of the joints?
The answer is, in “non-inflammatory” arthritis, such as osteoarthritis, the damage comes first (by general wear-and-tear) and inflammation generally follows as part of the symptoms, rather than the cause.
So the name can be a little confusing. In the case of osteo- and other “non-inflammatory” forms of arthritis, you definitely still want to keep your inflammation at bay as best you can; it’s just not the prime focus.
So, what should we focus on?
First and foremost: avoiding wear-and-tear if possible. Naturally, we all must live our lives, and sometimes that means taking a few knocks, and definitely it means using our joints. An unused joint would suffer just as much as an abused one. But, we can take care of our joints!
We wrote on that previously, too:
See: How To Really Look After Your Joints
New osteoarthritis medication (hot off the press!)
At 10almonds, we try to keep on top of new developments, and here’s a shiny new one from this month:
- Methotrexate to treat hand osteoarthritis with synovitis (12th Oct, clinical trial)
- New research has found an existing drug could help many people with painful hand osteoarthritis (24th Oct, pop-science article about the above, but still written by one of the study authors!)
Note also that Dr. Flavia Cicuttini there talks about what we talked about above—that calling it non-inflammatory arthritis is a little misleading, as the inflammation still occurs.
And finally…
You might consider other lifestyle adjustments to manage your symptoms. These include:
- Exercise—gently, though!
- Rest—while keeping mobility going.
- Mobility aids—if it helps, it helps.
- Go easy on the use of braces, splints, etc—these can offer short-term relief, but at a long term cost of loss of mobility.
- Only you can decide where to draw the line when it comes to that trade-off.
You can also check out our previous article:
See: Managing Chronic Pain (Realistically!)
Take good care of yourself!
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Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day
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…and then covers its tracks so that you don’t notice:
Now you see it…
The world you experience is not an accurate representation of reality. Your brain actively constructs your perception, editing your memories as they happen and manipulating your sense of time. What you perceive as the present moment is actually a processed and reconstructed version of past events.
Nor is your vision anywhere near as detailed as it seems. Only a small central portion is in high resolution, while the rest is blurry. Your brain compensates for this by filling in the gaps with its best guess and/or what it believes is there from the last time you saw it. Your eyes constantly make rapid movements called saccades, and during these (i.e. when your eyes are moving), your vision momentarily shuts down—making you effectively blind for (in total, if we add them all up) about two hours every day (according to this video, anyway; our calculations find it to be more than that, but you get the idea). Your brain stitches together the visual input, creating a seamless experience that feels continuous (much like an animation reel composed of still images).
Why does it do this?
It’s because your senses operate at different speeds—light reaches your eyes in nanoseconds, sound in milliseconds, and touch signals in tens of milliseconds. However, your brain processes these inputs together, creating the illusion of a smooth and simultaneous experience. In reality, what you perceive as the present is actually a delayed and selectively edited version of the past.
Instead of showing you the world as it is, your brain predicts what will happen next. In high-speed situations, such as playing table tennis, if your brain relied on past sensory data, you wouldn’t react in time. Instead, it estimates an object’s future position and presents that prediction as your visual reality.
This also means that because your brain effectively sees things slightly sooner than you do, your brain has already prepared multiple possible responses and when an event occurs, it quickly selects the most likely course of action, deleting the alternatives before you are even aware of them. By the time you think you’ve made a decision, your body has already acted.
This goes for more than just the things we think of as requiring quick reactions!
Walking is a complex task that involves multiple time layers—your brain processes past feedback, assesses your current state, and predicts future movements. That’s why it was something that cyberneticists found difficult to recreate for a very long time. If something unexpected happens, like slipping cartoon-style on a banana peel, your body reacts before you consciously notice the danger. Your spinal cord and brainstem trigger emergency reflexes to stabilize you before your conscious mind even catches up.
For more on all of this, enjoy:
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Make Your Retinoids Gentler On Your Skin
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Dr. Sam Ellis, dermatologist, explains:
Gently does it
Retinol is very popular for anti-aging, but many struggle to make it work for them initially without skin irritation, so…
- Begin with low-potency retinol (or retinaldehyde) to minimize irritation; strong prescription options like tretinoin aren’t ideal for sensitive or new users. Many see excellent results without needing prescription-strength products!
- Use a hydrating serum under retinol and a moisturizer on top (“serum sandwich”) to enhance absorption without irritation. Apply only a pea-sized amount using the “tiny dot method” for even distribution and to protect sensitive areas.
- If you have sensitive skin, consider “pre-slugging” sensitive areas (eyes, nose, mouth) with Vaseline before applying retinol to prevent undue irritation. On non-retinol nights, you can also use barrier-repair creams to strengthen and soothe your skin for better long-term results.
For more on all of this, enjoy:
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Macro Cookbook for Beginners – by Devika Sharma
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Adjusting macros is one of the most time-tested ways to adjust our body composition (common goals being losing fat and/or gaining muscle), but it’s easy to mess up, and end up with the opposite results, or no discernible results at all.
This book aims to take away the complexity of macro calculations, while simultaneously doing away completely with other considerations, for a very simple dietary approach.
As a default starting approach, the author (a dietician) recommends 45% carbs, 30% protein, 25% fat. She then gives various modifications for different goals and, indeed, different starting points.
The “anything goes, if it fits in your macros” approach can of course lead to very unhealthy eating, if one’s daily diet then becomes 3 protein bars and 7 Mars bars, for example (“hey, it meets the macro ratio requirements”).
With that in mind, she does provide 100 recipes that are at least moderately healthy, insofar as they do contain a lot of nutrients. They also do contain a lot of things we wouldn’t recommend (e.g. added sugar in the desserts, unfermented dairy in various places, red meat in the mains, etc), but that’s for you to decide about.
The recipes are a little on the basic side for this reviewer’s tastes, but then, that is the main angle of this book: making things as basic as possible. So, perhaps there is merit to that too. There are no pictures, or rather, there are illustrations dotted throughout the book, but not actual pictures of meals next to the recipes for them, as one might expect.
Bottom line: if you’re looking for a basic basics for beginners diet book, this book is remarkably basic and can fulfil that need.
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Forks Over Knives: Flavor! – by Darshana Thacker
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It’s important to not have to choose too much between health and flavor, because the outcome will never be a good one, either for your health or your happiness. And what’s bad for your happiness will ultimately not work out and thus will be bad for your general health, so, the question becomes: how to get both?
This book handles that nicely, delivering plant-based dishes that are also incidentally oil-free, and also either gluten-free or else there’s an obvious easy substitution to make it such. The flavor here comes from the ingredients as a whole, including the main ingredients as well as seasonings.
On the downside, occasionally those ingredients may be a little obscure if you don’t live in, say, San Francisco, and the ingredients weren’t necessarily chosen for cooking on a budget, either.
However, in most cases for most people it will, at worse, inspire you to try using an ingredient you don’t usually use—so that’s a good result.
The recipes are very clear and easy to follow, although not all are illustrated, and the “ready in…” times are about as accurate as they are for any cookbook, that is to say, it’s the time in which it conceivably can be done if (like the author, a head chef) you have a team of sous-chefs who have done a bunch of prep for you (e.g. sweet potato does not normally come in ½” dice; it comes in sweet potatoes) and laid everything out in little bowls mise-en-place style, and also you know the procedure well enough to not have to stop, hesitate, check anything, wash anything, wait for water to boil or anything else to heat up, or so forth. In other words, if you’re on your own in your home kitchen with normal domestic appliances, it’s going to take a little longer than for a professional in a professional kitchen with professional help.
But don’t let that detract from the honestly very good recipes.
Bottom line: if you’d like to level-up your plant-based cooking, this will definitely make your dishes that bit better!
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Dreams: Relevance, Meanings, Interpretations
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It’s Q&A Day at 10almonds!
Have a question or a request? We love to hear from you!
In cases where we’ve already covered something, we might link to what we wrote before, but will always be happy to revisit any of our topics again in the future too—there’s always more to say!
As ever: if the question/request can be answered briefly, we’ll do it here in our Q&A Thursday edition. If not, we’ll make a main feature of it shortly afterwards!
So, no question/request too big or small
❝I have a question or a suggestion for coverage in your “Psychology Sunday”. Dreams: their relevance, meanings ( if any) interpretations? I just wondered what the modern psychological opinions are about dreams in general.❞
We’ll indeed do that one of these Psychology Sundays! Thanks for suggesting it.
What we can say in advance is that there’s certainly not a single unified scientific consensus yet, but there are two or three prevailing views definitely worth covering, e.g. randomly generated, a by-product of reorganizing information in the brain, or expressions of subconscious thoughts/feelings.
There are also differences between a top-down/bottom-up approach to understanding dreaming, and efforts to tie those two together.
Watch this space!
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