When it comes to proper nutrition, just about the only thing everyone can agree on is that people need to eat food. Everything else, from eggs to carbs to vitamins, is basically up in the air! The Tangents crew wades into the quagmire that is modern nutrition science to see if we can figure out what the heck humans are supposed to be eating!
When it comes to proper nutrition, just about the only thing everyone can agree on is that people need to eat food. Everything else, from eggs to carbs to vitamins, is basically up in the air!
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[Fact Off]
Osedax worms
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00824.x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063707001483
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/305/5684/668/tab-pdf
“Vitamin” B17 aka. Laetrile
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3322/canjclin.31.2.91?sid=nlm%3Apubmed
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/laetrile-pdq#_10
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65988/
https://www.amboss.com/us/knowledge/Vitamins
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of nutrition science
https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2392
Nutrition research is complicated
https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-complicated
[Butt One More Thing]
Sewage sludge protein
https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2017/04/06/Sewage-sludge-to-animal-feed