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“I went back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Definitely not fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized

by phil 16y ago

“I went back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Definitely not fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks two to three times a day Wait, banana peels?

MikeCapone 16y ago
Well, it's not like they're toxic... Have you seen the movie K-Pax?
- TimothyBurgess 16y ago
  Have you seen Back to the Future?
- Tichy 16y ago
  I would expect banana peels to be quite toxic on average. Lots of pesticides, and unless you live in a place where bananas grow, who knows what they do to the bananas to prepare them for shipping.
  - jlazarow 16y ago
    Wouldn't organic bananas avoid that?
    - Tichy 16y ago
      I wouldn't count on it, as there are varying definitions of organic.
  - kragen 16y ago
    A few pesticides are quite toxic to humans. Most aren't. There are some (e.g. cypermethrin) with no known lethal dose in humans.
- pyrhho 16y ago
  Though they apparently are radioactive! :)
  - smcl 16y ago
    I like the "Banana Equivalent Dose" measurement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
stjohn 16y ago
Haven't you heard, it's all about whole foods.