Magic Johnsonâs HIV Cure: Natrol. When NBA legend Magic Johnson announced he had contracted HIV, many fans began to mourn his imminent death. But Magic has astounded the medical community by outliving his life expectancy. Today, Magic Johnsonâs HIV viral load is undetectable in his blood stream.
Friends, corn is not a vegetable. Itâs not. We are perplexed as to when corn entered the American dietary lexicon as a veggie, because itâs a grain â and a really unhealthy grain at that. Corn is the most sugary, starchy, empty grain there is. Youâre better off with white rice â seriously. (Not that we recommend eating a lot of white rice, because brown rice is higher in fiber and protein.) In fact, we hate corn.
The grain of corn is known as a caryopsis, which Merriam-Webster defines as: a small one-seeded dry indehiscent fruit (as of corn or wheat) in which the fruit and seed fuse in a single grain This image by Encyclopedia Britannica shows that the corn seed, enclosed by the seed coat (testa) is then further surrounded by the pericarp, which consists of the layers of tissue around the fruit.