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RE: Some amazing food hacks

in #food7 years ago

Sorry, but that's a collection of false interpretations, and not even the sources are stated.

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You are very right dude @sco

The hacks are wrong??

vastly exaggerated at least.
Examples:

  • the lemon sniffing: just because rats breathe better after they were sniffing at pure lemonene, it doesn't mean that sniffing lemons is a cure for asthma. A researcher would ask which concentrations of lemonene they used and whether this concentration can be realistically reached with lemons. Probably not, but i can't confirm this as no link to the study was provided.
  • soy and tamoxifen. tamoxifen works by inhibiting the estrogen receptor. There is a compound called genistein in soy that also works in that way, so far, so true. But to reach the effects of tamoxifen, u need huge concentrations of GEN that can NOT be reached by just eating soy. Telling people they should eat soy as treatment of breast cancer is dangerously wrong.

and so on an so on. this study-picking with drawing wrong assumptions is a bad way to interpret science. if you're interested, i resteemed a very good post about that topic yesterday.