CONTENTS
Introduction
Let Them Eat Flax
Pomegranate and Blueberry Frenzy
“Acrylawhaaat?”
Trans Fats
Newfangled Chocolates
The Sour Side of High-Fructose Sweeteners
Cinnamon and Health
How Splendid Is Splenda?
Spare Me the Wheatgrass Enzymes
Functional Foods—From Cod Liver Oil to Vitaballs
Eating Shellac
Nasty Microbes
The French Paradox
Jittery Goats and Coffee Beans
To Label or Not to Label, that Is the Question!
Smoked Meat
Nutrigenomics
The Saga of Golden Rice
Pesticide Problems
Organic Agriculture
Bringing Piggies to Market
Calcium and Weight Loss
Learning from the Bushmen of the Kalahari
The Cheesecake Factory
A Bump for the Antioxidant Bandwagon
Vitamin E Doesn’t Deliver Either
The Cold Facts about Vitamin C
A Cancer Treatment on Trial
“The Cure for All Cancers”
Praying for Health
Germs, Germs Everywhere
Music and the Savage Breast
A Stink about Antiperspirants
The Dangers of Betel Beauties and Fruit-Eating Bats
Murder by Toxin
The Prickly Problem of Acupuncture
Reefer Madness
Obsessions and Compulsions
Water Bottle Confusion
A Toxicological Nuance
Some Crooked Chemistry
The Cryonic Quest for Immortality
The Cold Facts About Antifreeze!
Would You Like to See My Etchings?
Does She or Doesn’t She?
It May Be an Alcohol—But Don’t Drink the Methanol!
Citius, Altius, Fortius
It Was the Strychnine!
Mercury—Pretty but Nasty
Feeding the Soil
Ammonium Nitrate—More than a Fertilizer
Chlorate and the Exploding Trousers
The Music of Copper Sulfate
Flying High with Aluminum
Blue Garlic and Gold Smudge
A Stable Mass of Bubbles
The Paper Trail
The Birth of the Pill
The Greatest Inventor
Pepper’s Ghost
Stradivarius or Nagyvaryus?
It’s Dynamite!
The Pox—Both Cow and Small
Tin Plague
Firebombs, Bedpans, and a Moldy Cantaloupe
Radar and Hot Coffee
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Forceful Sole Searching
Magical Hydrides
Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About
Index