Questions tagged [nutrition]
Use this tag for claims regarding the way we eat, and the effects eating has on our bodies.
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Is vegetable oil making us dumber?
In this video, titled "The $212 Billion Dollar Food ingredient poisoning your Brain", Joseph Everett makes the case that vegetable oils are lowering human IQ.
He cites professor Michael A. ...
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Does scouring a stainless-steel pan cause it to release metals into food?
The cookbook "Let's Cook It Right", by Adelle Davis contains the following claim (on page 4 of at least one edition - I'm not sure which edition this is but it's likely from the late sixties ...
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Do garlic sprouts cause digestion problems due to sulfur content?
In many French-speaking websites or recipe books, it is claimed that the garlic sprout [the green shoot in the centre of a clove], while safe to eat, can be difficult to digest because of higher ...
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Does mixing watermelons with alcohol cause liver damage?
Recently there's been an influx of articles in Polish media warning against consuming alcohol and watermelons (titles via Google Translate):
Never combine with alcohol. You can damage your liver
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Is capsaicin (found in chili peppers) an aphrodisiac?
Various web-sites claim that consuming capsaicin (the chemical found in chili peppers which makes them hot) has an aphrodisiac effect:
From berries.com:
Capsaicin is known to boost testosterone ...
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Does cooking eggs at high temperatures oxidise more fats than low temperatures?
Over the years, eggs have been vilified, then given a reprieve with regard to cholesterol, but when reading Srinivasan & Rose (2014), there is mention of lipid oxidation which can supposedly cause ...
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Do mango seed kernels contain Vitamin B-12?
There are a lot of blog posts and video channels claiming that mango seed kernels contain a high level of vitamin B12. I could find only one academic paper that claimed this:
Some nutrients and ...
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Can avoiding certain foods reduce inflammation? (Gluten, sugar...)
Lots of articles and books claim from moderate (help reduce inflammation) to miraculous (cure or completely eliminate symptoms of autoimmune disorders) claims about doing strict diets that avoid ...
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Does eating Okra cause male infertility?
Being a habitual eater of okra (also known as Ladies Fingers), I found myself shocked today to find that its consumption can allegedly cause male infertility:
July 2017 article from Premium Times, ...
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Can Ayurvedic treatment reduce symptoms and needed anti-inflammatory medication in ulcerative colitis patients by more than 75%
I found a study on Research Gate titled
Effects of Ayurvedic treatment on forty-three patients of ulcerative
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This paper was originally published in An international quarterly journal of ...
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Have lab animals that live under a controlled diet become more obese over the last decades?
Julia Belluz writes in The obesity trend isn’t only affecting humans — chimps, pets, and lab rats are getting fatter too for Vox:
We spend a lot of time talking about how fat one type of animal has ...
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Is drinking milk after ingesting persimmon dangerous?
I've heard growing up that you should not ingest persimmon and milk at the same time or ingest one right after the other. Is this true?
See Quora Is it true after eating persimmon you should avoid ...
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Do pregnant women crave pickles?
In my friend group it is "common knowledge" that pregnant women eat pickles a lot and we sometimes joke that we saw someone's girlfriend eating pickles with the implied consequence that they ...
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Are berries allowed to be sold with 60% "mold count" in the United States?
According to "Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food.", berries are allowed to be sold with 60% mold count:
TABLE D-1: Food and Drug Administration Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects ...
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Is it safe to eat rotten meat?
We can read here:
Meat can be eaten when it has gone off (i.e. green), but must be cooked absolutely thoroughly and never reheated. This is an old trick for living on recently dead animals (South ...
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Did New York City ever produce a salsa that competed against Pace Picante sauce? [closed]
In this historical reenactment you can see a bunch of folks' having a conversation about salsas. The conversation goes like this,
Decent Texan> More Picante sauce.
Creepy foreign looking guy> ...
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Is eating watermelon after milk bad?
It’s a local “myth” here in Iran that eating watermelon and milk (or any fatty food in general) is bad (as in it can cause stomachache or a bloated stomach etc). How true is this?
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Is slime mold eaten in Mexico as a dish called "feces of the moon"?
Various web sites make the claim that slime mold is eaten as a dish called "caca de luna" -- feces of the moon -- in Mexico. Sometimes the claim is attached to Fuligo septica, "dog ...
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Is eating and then going to sleep bad for health?
It is common to hear elderly in Portugal saying that dining and then going to sleep has a bad impact on one's health (apparently it is not only in Portugal).
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Does Xylitol Need be Ingested to Reduce Tooth Decay?
In her book, Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye, Ellie Phillips DDS recommends wiping a baby's teeth with xylitol enriched baby wipes to reduce tooth decay:
For added protection and to ensure your baby's ...
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Does Milk Protect or Harm Your Teeth?
In the book Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye, Ellie Phillips DDS recommends ending each meal with a "tooth healthy" food such as milk or cheese which neutralizes acid loving bacteria that ...
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Is sitting on the floor for eating more beneficial for your health than sitting in a chair?
In India, where I am from, most of the people sit on the floor to eat their food. It is widely believed that sitting on the floor and eating is more beneficial than sitting in a chair or on a sofa. ...
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Are sardines farmed?
I've been trying to find out if sardines are farmed or if they are all wild and are only fished.
Most of the sources I find, like this page, say that they cannot be farmed:
They are not farmed, as ...
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Is obesity causing diabetes and other illness, and not just correlated with?
According to the World Health Organisation website: (emphasis mine)
What are common health consequences of overweight and obesity? Raised
BMI is a major risk factor for noncommunicable diseases such ...
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Is Pepsin from pigs being used for cheesemaking in the United States?
A comment on this blog reads as follows:
Your information is INCORRECT. Following is an excerpt from a letter
from KRAFT food.
"Thank you very much for asking if Kraft cheese products contain ...
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