Spinach is bad for you; new study revealed

pawnstarNate
pawnstarNate Posts: 1,728 Member
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Hey, I’m all about the truth and spinach has some surprising downsides. Yes, too much of a good thing can be bad for you — including spinach. Did you know that to avoid problems — and extract the most nutritional value from this famously nutritious veggie — you need to ingest olive oil? It’s no coincidence that Olive Oyl was Popeye’s gal pal… it’s scientific fact! Most of the vitamins in spinach need “good fat” to fully assimilate into our bodies. Spinach also contains a natural substance called purine. Too much purine can lead to gout and kidney stones. It is also widely known that too much spinach can cause deformities in the forearms and calves and has been linked to baldness.

prime example:

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  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    I eat spinach all the time! So that's why I'm bald?!??! Dang it!!!!!!!!!
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    Thinking long-term....

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  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    i was never a huge fan of Popeye, but I think this tattoo is awesome:

    popeyes-fist_small.jpg
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    but dietary fat is useless and dangerous to your arteries and cholesterol numbers...

    it's all about carbohydrates...
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I call shenanegans. I've been eating spinach all my life including home grown spinach and my forearms and calves are STILL too skinny. What am I doing wrong? :sad:
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    All I know is that if you need to clear out the pipes, eat an omelet with fresh spinach and avocado. Works every time!:blushing:
  • fannyfrost
    fannyfrost Posts: 756 Member
    Now I have to cut spinach out of my diet too. So lets see:

    Chocolate is good for me
    Sugar is bad
    Wine is good for me
    Juice drinks are bad
    Spinach is bad for me
    Coconut oil will slim my waste

    So I should eat unsweetened chocolate mixed with coconut oil while drinking Wine, this will keep me hearth healthy and slim.
  • Chchchcherrybomb
    Chchchcherrybomb Posts: 1
    All I know is that if you need to clear out the pipes, eat an omelet with fresh spinach and avocado. Works every time!:blushing:

    I need to remember this! LOL thanks! xD
  • qfish
    qfish Posts: 16
    Could you cite the study? Thanks!
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    i was never a huge fan of Popeye, but I think this tattoo is awesome:

    popeyes-fist_small.jpg

    That is amazing!! :drinker:
  • DymonNdaRgh40
    DymonNdaRgh40 Posts: 661 Member
    That is one cool picture of Popeye!
  • Thee365
    Thee365 Posts: 59 Member
    I love this new fact..... ( THANK GOODNESS I LOVE SPINACH AND OLIVE OIL ALSO:laugh:
  • MrsSp00ns
    MrsSp00ns Posts: 17 Member
    What? Purines are part of genetic makeup and are broken down to uric acid as part of our cell recycling. Many foods contain purines, with purines being more concentrated in things like sardines, anchovies and liver. Spinach has much lower levels of purines than these foods.

    Purines are needed in our diet and uric acid for example has benefits such as maintaining our blood vessels.

    Some people are prescribed low purine diets for medical reasons due to underlying medical conditions. Lets keep things in perspective.
  • tmauck4472
    tmauck4472 Posts: 1,785 Member
    I got some spinach to use up and thinking I will need to do that tonight instead of the asparagus originally planned. Must get it out of the house somehow
  • Boobookittyfq
    Boobookittyfq Posts: 454 Member
    i was never a huge fan of Popeye, but I think this tattoo is awesome:

    popeyes-fist_small.jpg

    ooh man sick tat .. pretty dope
  • Rocbola
    Rocbola Posts: 1,998 Member
    It also has oxalates, or oxalic acid, but it's not a big deal if you eat a well balanced diet. It also helps to eat spinach in as fresh of a state as possible, as oxidation can cause oxalic acid to increase.

    And you don't need to use olive oil to get the fat necessary for proper absorption of micros, you can add some crushed nuts to your salad. Or coconut, or olives, or avocado.
  • Pamela_in_Progress
    Pamela_in_Progress Posts: 197 Member
    i was never a huge fan of Popeye, but I think this tattoo is awesome:

    popeyes-fist_small.jpg

    Diggin' on the Popeye tat!
  • tmaryam
    tmaryam Posts: 289 Member
    I just started eating spinach with everything, don't ruin it for me. :tongue:
  • Grumpellina
    Grumpellina Posts: 49
    Show me the study that reveals that pooping is also "bad" for you.
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member

    Coconut oil will slim my waste


    wait... coconut oil will make my poop skinny??


    *giggles over homonyms*
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member

    Coconut oil will slim my waste


    wait... coconut oil will make my poop skinny??


    *giggles over homonyms*

    Beat me to it.
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member

    Coconut oil will slim my waste


    wait... coconut oil will make my poop skinny??


    *giggles over homonyms*

    Beat me to it.
    Makes sense to me. I'm sure I've read if you eat too much dietary fat it can lead to the runs.

    In any event, I wants me some Popeye forearms. Or more properly, Rosie the Riveter forearms. Seriously, if I had forearms like that, pretty soon I wouldn't have forearms like that, because I'd spend all my time admiring my own forearms and not getting any hard work done to achieve said forearms!

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    Love,
    The Spinach Assassin

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