Fill up on vegetables instead of carbs. Eat dinner mid afternoon instead of evening, and exercise, even if just a long walk, afterwards.

• Airplane (Flying High)
• Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• The Empire Strikes Back

I don’t know your specific machine and haven’t used cassettes for years, but from experience back in the day the first thing that occurs to me is uneven tension - what happens if you manually fast forward the tape to the end then rewind it? Does retensioning the tape help at all?

Put it in the oven on lowest setting

Greed and self interest.

• Heavy metals: lead, mercury
• Arsenic in small doses over a long period

I don’t know of any plants, but I do know that the leaves of nightshades (potato, tomato, eggplant, capsicum, tobacco) are poisonous toxic in large doses.