Yes, I read some time ago about individual variation in metabolism - it's not very high

#10yearchallenge

@CowperKettle I have long wondered whether there is food pill; my metabolism isn't particularly high compared to normal people--I just need an adequate meal every 6 to 12 hours, but needing to hunt for food so often is just a big nuisance for me.

I just don't like to do this kind of boring chore so often.

Though I am not interested in food and absolutely not a goumet, I do hope to have tasty food when I am hungry, but it's really not easy to find it. So I feel it so upset to hunt for food so often just to treat hunger.

I try to take candies as food pills, but they don't work effectively.

before going to bed this morning I ate a meal but I waked up feeling hungry again.

hunger is really pesistently recurring trouble.

now I want to read the eclipse article earthsky.org/tonight?offset=-2, but hunger hinders me. Before I went to bed, it has hindered me.

so if anyone wants me to read long articles for them, I wish they can send a meal to me every several hours throughout my reading.

if there is no food pills, there need to be many food toilers in the world responsible for solving human hunger.

@CowperKettle My BMR is almost only 80 calories more than a guy double my age

I have just solved my hunger trouble, but I have another trouble, lack of warm shower facility.

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Word of the eve: pterin (Pterins were first discovered in the pigments of butterfly wings (hence the origin of their name, from the Greek pteron (πτερόν), wing) and perform many roles in coloration in the biological world.)

can these be used to refer to an uncountable noun?

A boy with high IQ had been attempting suicide since age 14. They threw every antidepressant available at him.

And then threw some electric seizure therapy.

All to no avail.

Until they found that he had almost zero pterin metabolites in his cerebrospinal fluid.

They started him on sapropterin, and he walked away.

> His cerebrospinal fluid levels showed that the concentration of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), neopterin, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid and homovanillic acid were below the reference range, suggesting a defect in the pterin biosynthetic pathway and in synthesis of dopamine and serotonin indicative of GTP-cyclohydrolase deficiency.

His mood went to normal. He would have died if not for that analysis of cerebrospinal fluid.

my home city is intrinsically a dismal place.

I didn't understand that until I left it for a suburb, where I found I become a cheerful person.

Yes, it's always better to live closer to nature

before that, I was disposed to melancholy.

I'm often depressive.

only after I had the experience of leaving the home city to have long stay outside did I understand the home city is the culprit for my melabcholic disposition as it is intrinsically a dismal place.

I am not sure why the home city is a dismal place, may be it's a concrete jungle or may be it's my home city.

because my home city is the most urbanized place, and I have not had the chance to have long stay in another such urbanized a place.

Hello, I'm not sure this is worthy of asking a question on ELL so I'll post it here

there's this BBC article: bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46950719

Somewhere in there it says:

> The government launched a pilot scheme this week for people to apply for leave to remain through a smartphone app.

There's these sentences that requires double-takes for me to understand and it ends up happening often on BBC, but this one takes the cake ; I cannot for the life of me break down the meaning of this sentence

The closest sentences I could come up with are: "A smartphone app launched by the gouvernment this week, is part of a pilot scheme for people to apply on. Using this app, they can register in order to (leave to remain)" and "A smartphone app will remain available for people to apply for leave this week, thanks to a pilot scheme launched by the government"

none of which make sense in the context of the article (or at all)

Heh, nevermind, I'll just ask