Time to avoid blueberries?

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  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    What the hell, man?! You ruin everything with your helpfulness. *stomps off and starves to death*























    :wink:
  • _errata_
    _errata_ Posts: 1,653 Member
    Science for the win.

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  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    Science for the win.

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    What a drag it is getting old. That song has been going through my head since you posted that pic.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    Thanks for posting this! And you do know that "aqua" is one atom away from being a deadly poison!
  • widget8734
    widget8734 Posts: 1
    For chezjuan ... people actually do die from drinking too much water!
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill/
    Down here in the southern hemisphere, inexperienced tropical bush walkers get into this situation. They're sweating a lot as they walk through humid jungle, so they think they should keep drinking, even though they aren't thirsty. Big mistake! Trust your body ... it knows how to tell you when you need water!

    For the guy who decided bananas were better than blueberries (to avoid all of those nasty blueberry chemicals) ... sorry pal ...
    http://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-banana/

    The bottom line: EVERYTHING you have ever eaten and every drunk is 100% made of chemicals! We MUST eat and drink chemicals, or we will die very quickly (it's called starvation!). Even water is a chemical. Since all fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat etc (any food or drink) are 100% chemicals, and >99% of all foods (yes, this includes 'organic') contain at least something toxic, our bodies are perfectly adapted to cope. As with all poisons, there are harmless doses that we all ingest every day (and cannot possibly avoid).

    If you are hysterical about chemicals, you will find a reason not to eat every food item in existence. Chemicals are natural! Even arsenic and cyanide (in apples). Your bodies are also faintly radioactive due to potassium (without which, you'd be dead), not to mention that you create formaldehyde as a by-product of being alive. Chill, people! Just don't go around purifying, concentrating, and then ingesting copious quantities of the substances in quantities that will produce toxicity, you should be fine (food allergies excepted) ... like billions of people before you.
    :tongue:

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