Let Them Eat Flax: 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life

Let Them Eat Flax: 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life

Language: English

Pages: 286

ISBN: 1550226983

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Do you know if your waiter sings in the bathroom? Or if the lady who whipped up the icing on your cake wore false fingernails? When was the last time you microwaved your dishcloth? Is your orange juice pasteurized? In Let Them Eat Flax!, award-winning author Dr. Joe Schwarcz explains why these are more important questions than whether you eat fresh or farmed salmon, whether genetically modified foods should be labeled, or whether fruits and vegetables harbor traces of pesticides. In Let Them Eat Flax!, Dr. Joe Schwarcz continues his crusade against purveyors of poppycock as he investigates the surprising and sometimes sinister science of everyday food and life. What difference does an atom make? It could mean life or death! Get the lowdown on oxygenated water, the healing powers of prayer, and the health benefits of chocolate. Could there be a link between McGill University and Jack the Ripper? Find out how cinnamon helps to counter high cholesterol, and learn just how sweet sugar alternatives can be. In the tradition of Dr. Joe's five previous best-sellers, Let Them Eat Flax! fries scientific baloney with humour, wit, and information. From food poisoning to the secret of the Stradivarius violin, fertilizers to spontaneous human combustion, Dr. Joe investigates explosive subjects and delivers the unbiased, scientific facts readers need to make informed decisions in their everyday lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

restaurants now serve only pasteurized orange juice. —— 57 Schwarcz/Let eat flax/Ind 57 —— 11/10/05, 22:45 DR. JOE SCHWARCZ Even producers who use only pasteurized products can run into trouble because total control over suppliers is virtually impossible. One of the largest outbreaks of Salmonella poisonings in North America was caused by ice cream made from pasteurized ingredients. It turned out that the trucking company that delivered the pasteurized ice-cream mix also hauled liquid

fact that American physicians were seriously examining acupuncture caused a flurry of interest back home, and soon halfbaked acupuncturists were cropping up in every corner, to treat every conceivable disease. The zanier ones were “curing” conditions ranging from multiple-chemical sensitivity in humans to listlessness in goldfish and neuroses in birds. The most amusing spin-off was “earth acupuncture,” which involves hammering wooden stakes into the ground to make the soil more fertile by

goods. The only way to determine if it really works is through controlled studies. “Placebo control” is the gold standard for modern clinical trials. We know that people respond to sugar pills, and even to fake surgery, roughly 40 percent of the time, a factor that must be taken into account if a study is to be reliable. Designing a placebo-controlled trial of acupuncture, though, presents some obvious problems. What do you use for a placebo? Researchers at Heidelberg University in Germany came

bacterial contamination, not with the leaching of diethylhexyladipate. —— 157 Schwarcz/Let eat flax/Ind 157 —— 11/10/05, 22:49 DR. JOE SCHWARCZ So far, so good. But what about the business of deha making people feel younger? I puzzled over that one for a while. I think that someone’s fingers dancing on the keyboard while they were “researching” the deha–water bottle connection made a little slip and typed dhea instead of deha. All of a sudden, claims of the potential rejuvenating

FLAX of glycogen, a crucial muscle fuel, or if they have injected themselves with erythropoietin (epo) to increase their production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Why the need for epo? Why not just inhale some extra oxygen? Simple. It doesn’t work! The romanticized story of the American victory at Squaw Valley notwithstanding, red blood cells are already saturated with oxygen, and inhaling extra gas will be of no help. This was clearly shown in a landmark paper in the Journal of the

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