Adding @frongt@lemmy.zip's comment with some good context here:
each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%
And processed meat is defined as:
meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation. Most processed meats contain pork or beef, but processed meats may also contain other red meats, poultry, offal, or meat by-products such as blood. Examples of processed meat include hot dogs (frankfurters), ham, sausages, corned beef, and biltong or beef jerky as well as canned meat and meat-based preparations and sauces.
And if you want a visual for 50g of processed meat: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/five-meats-by-the-slice-see-how-little-50-grams-actually-is-1.3289822
So that’s a reasonable amount for a regular meat-eating person to consume through meat dishes day to day.
How can they be aware when they are functionally illiterate and inumerate?
I get that this is more tongue and cheek, but for some perspective it's around ~21% of US adults that are functionally illiterate (in English) from 2024 stats
"in English" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Any number of illiterate adults is a problem worth solving, but someone who can read in their native language is not illiterate. Teaching adults to read is an entirely different process from teaching adults how to read a foreign langauge.
Flooded with misinformation and conflicting sources; in a constant struggle to barely survive, no escape, and information overload fatigue.
I was watching who wants to be a millionaire and it was the celebrity version. I don't recall which celebrities were sitting in the chair but I recall the question and the answer.
The question was: supreme court justices all shake hands with each other before they have a session or something, so how many times are hands shaken total among all judges?
Really simple answer if you know your math(and how many justices there are), which they ultimately asked the audience and I kind of figured 'not a lot' are going to get it right, but over 70 percent did. I was surprised.
Maybe one of the celebrities was Helen Hunt? I'm not going to spoil the answer any further!
Spoiler
8 Injustices + 1 Chief Injustice = 9 handshakers. Each handshaker shakes 8 people's excluding themselves, but you musn't count the same handshake twice for each person.The first shakes 8 times and is done. The second shakes 7 times because the 8th was already included in the count of the first person....
8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=36
If you want to make the arithmetic faster for any number, (n+1)*n / 2 is the closed form expression for summing the (whole) numbers 1 to n
So (8+1)*8/2 = 36 in this case
Yes absolutely, but that is only faster when n is large enough to become unwieldy, or the pr9cess needs to be repeated for various numbers of shakers. When doing it in your head for a single low number question this is where I landed.