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Gonna start eating pennies for breakfast.
by virtuexru 10y ago
Gonna start eating pennies for breakfast.
- LyndsySimon 10y agoBetter go with pre-1983 pennies. Pennies minted 1983 to present are 97.5% zinc.
- gumby 10y agoThe article mentions that one risk of taking copper supplements is setting your zinc ratio out of whack. This is a clear example of the government taking positive action on public health.
- epimetheus 10y agoThe reverse is also true, if you take too much Zinc, you'll get deficient in Copper.
- takingflac 10y agoThis is true, that is why I only eat the "skins" of modern pennies if I don't have any old ones. The inside is where all that nasty zinc comes from.
- logfromblammo 10y agoYes, but their surface area is 100% copper. You are likely to pass the penny before digesting all the way through to the zincky center. And 1982 was the year the US penny switched from copper to copper-clad zinc. Some from that year are pure, and others are clad. The pure pennies are heavier. Or you could file a notch in an edge and see if the center reflects whitish or reddish.
- bkmartin 10y agoI wonder if this just ins't a push by the copper industry to build a market before the penny's ultimate demise in the future. Follow the money sheeple! /s