Let Them Eat Flax: 70 All-New Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life
Language: English
Pages: 286
ISBN: 1550226983
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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