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test whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content. …
by qwertytyyuu 1y ago
test whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content.
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- zdragnar 1y agoOh wow, I thought you were proposing a silly experiment, but that was the chemistry winner...
- moi2388 1y agoYeah, I don’t understand how this study was deemed ethical, let alone win.
- timr 1y agoBecause Teflon is harmless to the human body. It is inert. It interacts with nothing. We literally make replacement body parts out of it. This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.
- cyberpunk 1y agoDrink a pint of it then?
- timr 1y agoIt's a solid.
- genter 1y agoJust because it's inert doesn't mean it's harmless. I'm pretty sure that if you shove a wad of it in your windpipe, you won't last very long. Also go check out water poisoning.
- timr 1y agoYes, just like you can die if you choke on food.
- OskarS 1y agoI was curious about this study as well, both because the idea seems genius and wildly unsafe. I mean, I know teflon is inert, but really safe for consumption in quantities required for satiation? I googled the paper's title, and here it is: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26810925/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26810925/ The answer is that it's a study in rats, seemingly (from the abstract) a very successful one. Probably a bad idea to introduce that amount of "forever chemicals" into the environment, but the central idea seems pretty sound.
- Boltgolt 1y agoIsn't PFAS, created by the production of teflon, the real issue?