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On average, we inhale 20 lbs of air per day. This is greater by weight than the food or water we consume in a day. We should be paying a lot more attention to a
by xnx 2y ago
On average, we inhale 20 lbs of air per day. This is greater by weight than the food or water we consume in a day. We should be paying a lot more attention to air quality.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y ago[flagged]
- worik 2y ago[flagged]
- MathMonkeyMan 2y agoA rule of thumb is that if you paid sales tax for it, it's probably not food. Of course "not food" is mostly fine.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoSome states tax all food.
- jameshart 2y agoEverything in New Hampshire is food
- zdragnar 2y agoNot a great rule of thumb as every state and municipality is different in this regard. Many places will have different rates for raw food, prepared to go / delivery, and prepared for on-site consumption. https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2024/08/26/109453/109453/ https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2024/08/26/109453/109453/
- Cyphase 2y agoCalifornia logic, I feel you.
- protocolture 2y ago[flagged]
- Freedom2 2y agoActually Americans are the first to invent everything, including food.
- protocolture 2y agoOh so they could hypothetically make food they just choose not to. Makes sense.
- throaway89 2y agoI think as an American, "food" should be in quotation marks
- asdff 2y agoI can't help but feel like it has taken a nosedive as well. Modern homes are sealed and don't recirculate much outdoor air. As a result you have all this modern american living plastic material constantly offgassing. your fleece shedding microplastic particulate into the air that you then breath, eat, burn over the stove and inhale the fumes. You can't even do anything about it. Get rid of all the plastic you want in your life and the water supply is what is contaminated next. Your neighbors dryer exhaust and their fleece polluting your air. Restaurants. The food suppliers. Move a thousand miles away to the tip of the mountaintop upstream of everything conceivable, and you are liable to be bombarded with it carried via updrafts from around the world along with the rest of the usual pollution. We can't even slow down the consumerism. Everyone's job around the world is someway tied into this rampant production of cheap plastic goods to replace cheap plastic goods from yesterweek. You try and nip it in the bud everyone is liable to lose their job and everything might very well collapse because of how we chose to stack this deck of cards on this planet.
- joemazerino 2y agoModern homes have to have HRV systems for removing indoor air and replacing it.
- xnx 2y agoIt can be disheartening. I don't know that there's much strong evidence yet that air polluted with synthetic particles leads to bad health effects, but I do know that are lungs have been subjected to things in the last 100 years that they hadn't encountered in the previous 300 million.
- TylerE 2y agoInhaled particulates are never good news. Varying degrees of bad, but none of it is good.
- readthenotes1 2y agoI uploaded you for nosedive and didn't read anything after that. Figured it couldn't get any better!
- moralestapia 2y agoIt's probably way more than that, IMO. Like 10x more. Edit: Back of the envelope math puts it around 60-70kg per day, conservatively. Can I just stop being right?
- xnx 2y agoWhere does our math differ? 2,000 gallons/day * 4.6 grams/gallon = 20.3 lbs. https://www.lung.org/blog/how-your-lungs-work https://www.lung.org/blog/how-your-lungs-work
- moralestapia 2y agoA person breathes 20-22k times a day (although I agree that number will vary greatly among people). 2,000 gallons/day is about 300ml in/out per breathing cycle. My estimate is that you breathe in/out at least one liter, recall that total lung capacity is about 6 liters so about 20% of that seems like a reasonable estimate. I chose to do 2-3 liters * 1.225 grams/liter * 22k times = ~50-80kg. That's a bit high now that I think about it, but no way is as low as 9kg. Edit: Chat says a healthy adult averages 500ml per breathing cycle (honestly surprised is that low), so, final estimate ~13-14kg if that is true. (I like metric units but you can do the conversion to burgers per squared eagle and compare)
- rajnathani 2y agoNot to forget also that inhaled micro/nano particles get into the bloodstream more easily than ingested particles.