NSAS Idea Suggestion # 25 - Superfood Hoax

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In this series I propose daily ideas for new members who are interested in becoming #steemstem authors.

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I will post an idea a dayish (it is the goal to post daily, but again real life>steemit for now). With this idea I will include a short description about aspects you may be interested in. If you read this idea proposal, and you like it, and you want to write about it:

Go to the comments and write: "I, username, claim this idea"





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Obviously "username" is where you write your own username. This is so that I know who is interested in @steemstem and science in general and I am always looking for a good read. This is honor system stuff, so please respect someone claiming an idea. Again, this is just the first step towards writing a good science post. There is more to it. Do your research, use scientific sources and try to use some proper language and attractive design. This series will have their own hashtag #nsas, so that you can go back and sort through some of the ideas I have shared and what people made out of it. If you decide to use the idea I propose, please also include #nsas on your posts so that I can have a look at it and maybe get you connected in the steemstem group. Please also visit @steemstem on steemit as well as on Discord. Follow the guidelines and appreciate the community. That means engage, upvote and comment until your fingers bleed.

The Superfood Hoax

We all have heard about so called super foods. In addition to having good nutritional values, they are also "healthy", prevent cancer and have at least another health benefit. My favorite superfood add is that where this person drinks some pomegranade juice and the samurai in juice color comes. The makers of that juice obviously do not know about the benefits of reactive oxygen species.
Anyways, I have seen a documentary or a TV show and they were talking about how many of these superfoods are nothing but money-makers. Several points were raised and I think they are worthy to be investigated. The first one: they really are not that super. I mean, what is the concentration of the beneficial chemicals in an alcai berry? Is it really enough to prevent you from having cancer? The second: they may be "healthy", but they cause deforestation and pollution. Well, what do you expect if you want to buy an expensice berry from the Amazon where people make in a year what you make in a month. The third: There are cheaper, and better versions available locally. Have you ever read how healthy cabbage is? Or strawberries? Or Carrots? I think you can get all the cancer prevention and nutrion from superfoods from vegetables and fruit grown in your own garden. You do not have to cut down the rainforest, transport stinking berries under artificial atmosphere over the Atlantic or enslave rainforest people.
This post could be very interesting. I suggest that you read up some popular literature on "superfoods" and then read about their contents. You can compare that to local foods in your area and draw some conclusions about the claims I mentioned above.
This post may be difficult to write because there are not many open research articles available. At least my initial research did not yield any results. If that is the case with you also, you can always make this post more specific and look at several "superfoods" individually and then read up on science literature. I still hope that someone dares to claim this idea and write this post.

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     7 years ago  

    I, @abumaryam, claim this idea "Just How Dangerous Is Air Pollution?"

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     7 years ago (edited) 

    The worst part is the fruit/vegteble/meat itself, you see the part that makes super foods seem healthy is because of thier special properties and how did they get these properties by the right enviroment meaning soil,climate and others.

    However bullshitty companys destroys what makes these super-foods super by

    • monoculture
    • Use of massive amounts of fertillizer
    • Missing one key component (either natural soil,water,climate).
    • Invasive species

    Because of these thr super foods arent as super as truly wild ones but even though the companys produced 2nd grade bullshit companys make products out of these like beauty cream,lotion,tea and more and the worst part its expensive even though the ingredients they claim are expensive they were cheaply produced.

    In short just eat normal food because they contain all the neccessary nutrition which are acrually required everyday

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       7 years ago  

      @lesshorrible could you please guide me, how to create a link in the post?

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