Dietary Supplements is a daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Today it's all about health, plus a slice of geological cake. Enjoy!
Speaking of globalization, why do the world's fattest people live on islands? Clue: It's not the piña coladas.
Correlation is not causation, but a 9-year study of 2,500 New Yorkers showed that people who drank diet soda every day also had a 61 percent higher chance of suffering a "vascular event," such as a heart attack or stroke.
Two food mysteries: Eggs contain less cholesterol than they did a decade ago, but no one knows why. And "Pine Mouth"—a bizarre and little-understood reaction to pine nuts that leaves victims with a nasty metallic taste in their mouths for weeks—is back.
To make up for all the health news, we're leaving you with a slice of geological cake, borrowed from a geology blog food carnival that also featured veggie pilaf in the shape of a debris flow, a baked model of the lunar surface, and detailed instructions on how to convert your breath into calcite.
Dietary Supplements is a daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!
Image: Geological cake, created by Nissan, via the American Geophysical Union Blogosphere.
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