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The link agrees: > The belief that spinach is a good source of iron, although falsified 30 years ago by Hamblin in a British Medical Journal article, is still
by eesmith 4y ago
The link agrees:
> The belief that spinach is a good source of iron, although falsified 30 years ago by Hamblin in a British Medical Journal article, is still widespread among my colleagues, all of whom have, at minimum, a master’s degree in health sciences.
1981 + 30 = 2011.
- wolverine876 4y agoIt doesn't agree. Read the rest of the article.
- eesmith 4y agoI think there's two points here. 1) the myth that spinach is a significantly better source of iron than other iron-rich vegatables, and 2) the myth that it came from misreading a decimal point. I meant #1. Certainly myth #2 still exists in the 21st century. DDG easily finds recent examples, like https://hekint.org/2022/07/18/spinach-the-great-myth/ https://hekint.org/2022/07/18/spinach-the-great-myth/ .