Health & Fitness
When it comes to proper nutrition, just about the only thing everyone can agree on is that people need to eat food. Everything else, from eggs to carbs to vitamins, is basically up in the air! The Tangents crew wades into the quagmire that is modern nutrition science to see if we can figure out what the heck humans are supposed to be eating! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail] Chemical Contamination https://www.circleofblue.org/2018/world/remembering-michigans-pbb-crisis/ https://www.mlive.com/news/2016/05/velsicol_superfund_st_louis_pb.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/12/001214082240.htm https://science.sciencemag.org/content/199/4334/1207 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybrominated_biphenyl Ants and Insulin https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-insulin-helped-create-ant-societies-20180814/ Panda Digestion https://www.livescience.com/50871-pandas-gut-bacteria-bamboo-digestion.html [Fact Off] Osedax worms https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00824.x https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063707001483 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/305/5684/668/tab-pdf “Vitamin” B17 aka. Laetrile https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3322/canjclin.31.2.91?sid=nlm%3Apubmed https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/laetrile-pdq#_10 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65988/ https://www.amboss.com/us/knowledge/Vitamins [Ask the Science Couch] History of nutrition science https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2392 Nutrition research is complicated https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-complicated https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/food-medicine/why-does-nutrition-advice-change [Butt One More Thing] Sewage sludge protein https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2017/04/06/Sewage-sludge-to-animal-feed