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After we’re deciding what to eat (and what to not eat), human beings are likely to depend on typical knowledge. Junk meals is unhealthy for you. Consuming too shortly is unhealthy for you. And tasting an apple that’s been sitting alone in an workplace for not less than 438 days? Actually unhealthy for you.
These are only a few examples on a protracted listing of generally accepted meals rules that Atlantic writers have disproved or questioned lately. Research present a mysterious well being profit to ice cream, David Merrit Johns reported in our Might journal difficulty. Our science author Katie Wu just lately discovered that quick eaters like herself aren’t essentially “doomed to metabolic misfortune.” And, sure, our science editor Rachel Gutman-Wei tasted the apple, which was left alone on the Atlantic places of work on the top of the coronavirus pandemic. Though she most likely wouldn’t suggest that you simply attain for an old-apple appetizer, she discovered from specialists that apples are extra protected than another fruits towards water loss and microbe assaults, and that the particular apple she was finding out had been preserved remarkably properly.
Immediately’s publication explores the numerous items of meals knowledge our writers have challenged—generally at private danger—within the title of science, and even simply within the title of curiosity. Though I’m barely apprehensive about my colleagues’ self-preservational instincts, I’m additionally grateful to them for sharing these wild and wondrous findings.
Bizarre Meals Info
Diet Science’s Most Preposterous Consequence
By David Merritt Johns
Research present a mysterious well being profit to ice cream. Scientists don’t need to speak about it.
A Crumpled, Dried-Out Relic of the Pandemic
By Rachel Gutman-Wei
I returned to my workplace and located an apple that had in some way not rotted away.
Consuming Quick Is Dangerous for You … Proper?
By Katherine J. Wu
The widespread recommendation to go sluggish is neither definitive nor common.
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
P.S.
I’ll depart you with images of an astounding current meals occasion that doesn’t include gastrointestinal danger however carries its personal risks: the annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, during which members chase a nine-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a steep and uneven hill.
— Isabel
