Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthful diet.
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Does beef meat have twice the amount of oestrogen as soy?
I have been watching to some videos on Youtube to see if I should be a vegan. One of the thing that popped out during a discussion was the fact that soy makes our bodies produce more oestrogen. ...
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Can eating the right foods avoid BRCA1 breast cancer?
NaturalNews.com has an article entitled How Angelina Jolie was duped by cancer doctors into self mutilation for breast cancer she never had (emphasis in original)
But the really sad part about all ...
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Is “Copper River Salmon” better for your health than the other Alaskan Sockeye salmon, or is it just a sales pitch? [closed]
Copper River Salmon is hyped as a big deal here in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle area restaurants clamor to get them and serve it as soon as the fishing boats begin bringing the fish ashore. Loaded ...
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Does fruit combining (eating fruits alone/on an empty stomach) work?
There are a number of sites advocating that eating fruits by themselves and/or on an empty stomach is somehow healthier. Though the theory often stated is almost certainly made up (something about ...
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Does Japan export food that is unsafe to eat in Japan?
This claim states that some of the foodstuff that leaves Japan is deemed unsafe there because of the radioactivity levels, and is exported to places with more lax restrictions, like the United States.
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How many days can you live without food? [duplicate]
I am a Malaysian. A few days ago, one of my country's political speakers claimed he didn't eat anything for 10 days, and he just survived by drinking water.
This phenomenon really make me interested ...
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Are Kinder Surprise eggs banned in the US?
I just came across this info-graphic:
Is it true that Kinder Surprise eggs are currently, or previously, banned in the US?
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Can you get addicted to cheese?
In the documentary "Super Size Me" an interviewee of Morgan Spurlock says:
If you look at the menu at a fast food restaurant, they use all of the addicting
components.
They'll take a slab of ...
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Is there any difference between milk from rBST treated cows and non-rBST treated cows?
I've seen the following sort of blurb on a lot of milk products, saying:
"Our pledge: Milk comes from cows not treated with the rBST growth hormone"
If they indicate this, does that mean there's ...
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Fasting two times a week diet
There is a diet called "fasting two times a week diet" or "the 5:2 diet". You eat only 25% of your normal intake two times per week, rest of the week you extra much to make up for it, and it claims to ...
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Are “vanishing caloric density” and “designer sodium” real?
Michael Moss certainly claims a lot in his new book. I have only read an online article about it, and I'm highly suspicious of the claims made there, especially terms like "vanishing caloric density" ...
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Does aspartame “eat” holes in your cellular membranes
My well-meaning mom keeps sending me stuff like this:
Aspartame has been found to “eat” tiny holes in our cellular membrane.
When this happens, things like Multiple Sclerosis (MS), cancer, mood
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Does the number of lobes on a green pepper indicate any specific culinary traits about the individual pepper?
I've seen claimed that whether a pepper has 3 lobes or bumps at the bottom or 4 can indicate whether that bell pepper is "sweeter, and better for eating, or firmer, and better for cooking". I've seen ...
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Is CICO (calories in, calories out) a useful concept in diets?
An article at gnolls.org claims that there is no such thing as a calorie to our body, and our stomachs aren't steam engines and therefore the concept of calories and our way of measuring them is ...
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Do firefighters avoid eating pork?
In God is not Great Christopher Hitchens makes a claim that firefighters do not like eating pork because human flesh smells/tastes like pork. Seeing as this has the look and feel of an urban legend ...
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How many almonds does it take to get cyanide poisoning?
I was at lunch today and the conversation turned to almonds and their cyanide content. One co-worker said almonds contain a lot of cyancide and the number of almonds that can kill you surprisingly ...
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Does a burger require an hour of jogging to burn off?
According to this site, one needs about 1 hour and 5 minutes to burn off the weight gain from a Big Mac.
However, I've eaten about two Big Macs a night, with two similar sized meals during the day. ...
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Do eggs have DHA? If yes, then how much on an average?
The egg nutrition website doesn't mention docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in its list of egg ingredients:
http://www.eggnutritioncenter.org/egg-facts/nutrition-information-for-the-egg/
But, from: ...
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Is cooked protein less digestible than raw protein?
I saw the following claim in several places:
At Raw Glow
Cooking meat changes the molecular structure of some of its proteins,
rendering them unusable by the body and making cellular healing,
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Does honey with warm water and lemon reduce tummy fat?
There is a common belief that one can reduce tummy fat by drinking honey and lemon juice mixed in warm water the first thing in the morning.
This questionable website, for example, makes this claim ...
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Do not eat garlic in the evening
It's common to hear that garlic should be eaten in the morning and should not be eaten in the evening.
Many people even use the following saying for garlic:
Medicine in the morning, poison in the ...
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Does popped popcorn have less calories than unpopped?
If you look at the nutrition facts on a bag of popcorn, they sometimes list "popped" and "unpopped" separately:
(images above shamelessly stolen from the current answers :)
Unfortunately, when you ...
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Is eating meals at irregular times unhealthy?
Best Time to Eat Meals
Skipping meals or eating meals on a random schedule can drain your body of energy
I tend to eat whenever I feel like it. I pretty much ignore breakfast, lunch, and dinner ...
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Does milk cause heart attacks and cancer?
Who can debunk or prove the claim: "Milk is dangerous for your health, because of heart attacks and higher risks of cancer."
What about curd?
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Does adding Tea or coffee to milk reduce the nutritional value of milk?
This refers to the type of Tea or coffee (Usually drank in India) which is drank with milk. If I take just 200 ml of milk, and If I take 200 ml and add tea or coffee to it. Does it in some way reduce ...
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Are Instant Noodles bad for people's health?
I have often heard people saying that instant noodles are bad for our bodies, because they contain a wax coating and wax causes Cancer.
First: do noodles contain a wax coating?
Second: Is it true ...
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Are refined edible oils unhealthy compared to unrefined ones?
There are lots of articles like this one which say:
Refining [of oils] is accomplished with the addition of sodium hydroxide and
temperatures around 450 degrees. The refined oil is not ...
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Is a lack of breakfast the #1 brain damaging habit?
I came across the following list. "Top 10 biggest brain damaging habits". Although they're all interesting "food" for skepticism, I will focus on #1, because I find this a peculiar claim. Some other ...
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Does chicken soup helps fight the common cold more than other hot beverages?
I got the cold, and my mother who is a physician told me to drink lots of chicken soup as it helps relieve the symptoms of the disease. When I asked her if it really helps more than other hot ...
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Goat's milk as an anti-inflammatory?
I've been having this discussion with a friend. He has been suggesting that I try goat's milk as it would help with my stomach problems.
After looking around, I found some claims about how goat's ...
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Does the bulletproof diet work?
This diet is meant to be an updated version of the paleo diet, and it promises to give you killer abs with no exercise, eating 4,000+ KCal per day and sleeping 5 hours per night. It is also supposedly ...
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Is a short-term fast beneficial for maintaining good health and extending life expectancy?
This is claimed in Sweden's second-biggest newspaper.
My translation:
"I have started to short-term fast.[...] The reason is that lots of world leading scientists that study aging and the brain ...
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Is drinking a cold drink and drinking hot soup unhealthy in any way?
At least around here, in Costa Rica, it is common practice to avoid drinking cold drinks while drinking hot soup. I never questioned this (but didn't really care about it). Apparently it is, well, bad ...
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Can we trust that the food sold in stores is safe for human consumption?
My mother says that eating excessive amounts of bananas (3+ a day) can be harmful, because of the poisons that are used in the growing process.
I disagree, saying that while pesticides and other ...
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Can egg shells be digested?
I tried Googling but got no significant trustworthy result in the top few searches. The only reference I found is here: where the answered has guaranteed it without any reference!
Yes Egg shell is ...
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Are heart attacks due to Vitamin C deficiency?
According to this book description
Matthias Rath, M.D., an internationally respected cardiovascular
researcher, asserts that high cholesterol is not the actual cause of
heart disease. Bears, ...
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Is sea water suitable for human consumption?
Some relatives of mine think that drinking sea water is good for health, but I highly doubt it. They claim that drinking small amounts of sea water daily helps people to be healthier (reference ...
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Are humans incapable of digesting gluten?
Recently this I09 article about wheat made the rounds and there was a part in it that stood out to me:
According to Alessio Fasano, the Medical Director for The University
of Maryland's Center ...
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Is Autism in Children frequently due to low Glutathione Levels?
GlutathioneForHealth: Autistic children have 50% less intracellular glutathione than other children), which is why they have so much trouble detoxifing vaccines, medications, environmental toxins, ...
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Are carrots orange because the Dutch loved orange?
On the web, I find several unsourced claims that carrots are orange because the Dutch loved the colour. For example:
http://www.nextnature.net/2009/08/why-are-carrots-orange-it-is-political/
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Can sweeteners make you gain weight?
For the last five decades, the diet soda has been a given for anyone on a diet who wants to drink something other than water. This because instead of it containing large quantities of sugar it had ...
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Does the “Eatwell plate” cost £16.70 per week?
The "Eatwell Plate" is a broad dietary recommendation produced by the UK National Health Service.
This article in The Guardian says that a diet based on the Eatwell plate could cost as little as ...
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Can food allergies be detected by holding food samples?
I want to ask about a diet instrument I saw at a dietitian.
It is used to let the dietitian know what to let you eat and what not. He gives you a little cylindrical tube containing a source of liquid ...
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Did a large US study confirm that diet and exercise do not help prevent heart attacks for diabetics? [closed]
Over at Sociological Images (comments thread), somebody ("Erational") claimed there was a recent, large-scale study in the US that determined that "a strict diet and vigorous exercise over a period of ...
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Does the ripeness of a banana have any effect on causing constipation?
In this Parenting SE question there seem to be two opposite claims made:
A +7 answer claims that banana ripeness has no effect on constipation (I'm leaving aside the second, obvious claim that ...
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Are delayed food allergies a recognized medical condition?
My parents went to a nutritionist, who tested their blood and diagnosed them with a dozen of 'delayed food allergies'. They are told that consuming any quantities these substances (which include tea, ...
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Does chewing coffee grounds or beans give you more caffeine than drinking coffee?
Like the title say, I've always heard that, but I tried it but I can't really tell.
So is there any scientific evidence for or against it?
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Is there such a thing as an aphrodisiac?
Can the popular belief about some food items acting as aphrodisiacs be verified?
The wikipedia article states that
However, from a historical and scientific standpoint, the alleged results may ...
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Does your stomach shrink if you eat less?
I've heard people say this before; that eating less shrinks your stomach, making you desire less food in the future. When I looked it up online just now, the first few results conflict:
Eating less ...
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Can BCAAs be beneficial for recovery and performance for weight lifters?
There are a lot of Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) available in every shape and size. They are added to a lot of sports drinks and protein supplements. These can cost a lot of money and things are ...
