CHEM 181 Lecture 1: Unit 1 Topic 1.pdf

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

Document Summary

You are what you eat : food is the only raw material we put in our bodies, we have control over what we eat and therefore over our health ! We are also what we read: our knowledge come from what we read so we need to be selective about the information we read (ex. pomegranate advertisement) ! Pomegranate"s healthiness dates back to the bible: story of adam and eve ! It could have been the fruit from the tree of knowledge ! Used in medicine, like for treatment of breast cancer ! In the lab the multiplication of cultured breast cancer cells is reduced when bathed. Observation is not suf cient enough to extrapolate pomegranates as a cancer in pomegranate juice ! There are no miracle foods, possible to make any food sound good though selective cure -> lead to misinformation ! research!