Food for Thought

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Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:10:42 +0000
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Prediction: The top reader takeaways from our new issue will be two notes on food.

1) Gum as important study aid: “If you chew a certain flavor while you study for a test, then chew the same flavor during the test itself, the stuff you learned will come back to you.” From The New Normal, page 18.

2) Yuck factor: “The next day Choudhury swallowed three small chunks of raw, larvae-infested pike with chocolate milk. ‘Tapeworms love sugar,’ Choudhury says. ‘I wanted to make the transition comfortable for them. I had to give them a head start.’ Choudhury’s TLC did the trick. For five years, the parasite thrived in his gut. He collected specimens periodically, preserved them in 100 percent ethanol and, years later, collaborated with St. Norbert undergraduates to study the samples’ molecular genetics.” From The Inside Story, page 20.