HERE’S some news that Parade didn’t expect to hear this week: eating vegetables will make you smell better.
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That’s the message from researchers at Macquarie University, who recently completed a new study indicating that – wait for it – men who eat more vegetables smell more appealing to women.
By providing sweat samples to female participants to evaluate, and cross-referencing it with markers of greater fruit and vegetable intake, a new study has found that eating fresh produce results in more pleasant-smelling sweat with “floral, fruity, sweet and medicinal” qualities.
And if “floral, fruity, sweet and medicinal” sweat doesn’t attract women, then Parade doesn’t know what sort of sweat possibly will.
This latest research, according to the article Parade read, comes on the back of a study in 2015 which found that vegetables “help to make your skin look great”.
Parade would be sceptical about all this except for the fact that he knows, deep down, that eating vegetables is almost always a good thing and should be encouraged as much as possible – even if that encouragement comes as an appeal to the baser instincts.
So eat up, gents, and prepare to enjoy the olfactory benefits.
Look, up in the sky … it’s a pizza
AND now, the latest news in pizza delivery.
Parade reads that Domino’s this week successfully delivered a pizza by drone in – of all places – Auckland, New Zealand.
It was such a momentous occasion that it was attended by the New Zealand Minister of Transport, Simon Bridges, according to the report Parade read.
It’s set to be the start of a trial of store-to-door drone deliveries from a selected Domino’s New Zealand store, with flights to customer homes expected later this year.
New Zealand was selected as the launch market given its current regulations allow for businesses to make use of “unmanned aircraft opportunities”.
It does sound a bit like a daft gimmick to Parade, but maybe it will catch on – eventually.