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Until you have modern approach to health science, you would not notify such long-term effect for any food, so there is no reason to assume any traditional food
by zajio1am 7y ago
Until you have modern approach to health science, you would not notify such long-term effect for any food, so there is no reason to assume any traditional food is more safe w.r.t. such kind of effects.
- viburnum 7y agoNope, pretty sure millions of years of evolution have better equipped humans to eat the wild plants in their environment better than whatever they came up with in a lab yesterday.
- BubRoss 7y agoBased on what? The Chinese used to chew on cinnabar which they believed to be healthy and give longevity but was toxic, since it is actually mercury sulfide.
- riffraff 7y agonot just the chinese, mercury was used as a medicine in europe until the 20th century.
- viburnum 7y agoThat’s not a plant.
- Nasrudith 7y agoBeing a plant has nothing to do with it being available to exposure for our evolutionary history as cinnabar certainly predates humanity. Selective pressure is neither quick nor perfect.