ewald72's Advice

• What's the green tea diet?
  Mate-tea (which is not really from the tea-plant) contains a substance which helps agains hunger. Other teas may simply work because the water keeps you from getting hungry (for a short time, at least).
  
  
• Ignorance & Religion Walk Hand-in-Hand
  I agree with dw5386 I doesn't make sense to talk to those people. Just let them be and hope they don't send their children to the same schools the went to. Here are some interesting arguments they lost so far, in the approximate time-sequence. It...
  
  
• Are blogs and websites the same?
  Every Blog is a Website, but most Websites are not a Blog. A Blog transfers it's data with the http protocol and is formatted in html like ever other Website. But while you need a website designer to make a standard Website (or you write it direct...
  
  
• What is shinto belief?
  Shintoism is not a coherent religion, it is more a loosely connected set of different belief systems which came down from history to be known as 'The way of the Gods'. There is no central authority. It's basically animism and ancestor-worship. Bot...
  
  
• Is Chinese or Japanese food healthier than other foods?
  The CLASSIC Japanese cuisine is extremely healthy. If you take a look at old recipes, it's really mostly rice, vegetables, eggs and fish, almost no additional fat at all. In classic recipes NOTHING is fried, the only preparation methods being grillin...
  
  
• How do I brew japanese tea?
  For Sencha Tea (the standard tea nowadays) * Wash the tea-leaves * Cook water, let it cool for one minute * Put tea in water, let it stay for one to 1 to 2 minutes * Pass through sieve Generally, high-quality teas need cooler water. Gyokuro need...
  
  
• What Country did pizza first come from?
  That happened so long ago it will be impossible to say for sure. Primitive Bread is available since sometime in the paleolithic. Pakuntos, an ancient Greek flatbread with toppings of herbs and onions may qualify. Also, persian soldiers were known to ...
  
  
• What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
  Salt
  
  
• How do I get beer smell off of my breath?
  Coffee, eating something and strong mints
  
  
• Do they eat apple pie in Europe?
  Apple-pie is european in origin, almost every culture here has it's own set of recipes.
  
  
• How do you eat healthy when you can't cook?
  By learning to cook. As a matter of fact, eating out generally means eating too much or at least unhealthy.
  
  
• How can I cook with less fat?
  * Fat-spray when pan-frying * Electric low-fat grills (tilted heating plate to separate the fat) Also, when buying a grill, you should make sure that the heating plate is removable so you can wash it easily. * Start to cook traditionally japanese (...
  
  
• How can I make rice tasty?
  The japanese know something called 'Furikake', which is a crispy mix of sesame, rice-cakes, fish flakes and seaweed, tea, eggs, dried roe, etc. You can buy it in asian supermarkets. You can also make it yourself: * Dry a can of tuna (canned in wa...
  
  
• What is the hottest pepper in the world?
  Hotness of pepper is measured in scoville, which is the proportion of dilution you need to neutralize the pepper powder in sugar-water, so that at least humans don't detect any hotness at all. The winners are two Thai peppers, Bhut Jolokia and Naga ...
  
  
• What alcohol is less fattening?
  Theoretically, using PURE alcohol mixed in a no-cal soda like Cola Light would be most effective, because the only calories are from the alcohol itself. In reality you won't be able to get pure alc so easily, but a high-proof Rum works nicely too, y...
  
  
• Did humans evolve from ape or were Adam and Eve the first people? (100%)
  It's not so much a question of belief. There are some people even nowadays who believe Earth to be flat, but you will rarely find them in industrialized societies. Evolution is well-understood and a fact. Not all missing links were found, but given ...