CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Short-Chain Fatty Acid, Lactobacillus Delbrueckii Subsp. Bulgaricus, Frosted Flakes

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

Document Summary

Reduces dna damage in white blood cells. Phenylethyl isothiocyanate interferes with growth of blood vessels which carry oxygen to tumors. Not a health food but part of a healthy diet, the same as any other vegetables. We shouldn"t need tablets and supplements to duplicate what we can consume from actual food. The sans dining room was where the health food business started. Nonsensical treatments for illness that people didn"t have. Two of the first health food gurus were sylvester graham and dr. john kellogg. A no-meat diet rich in fruits and vegetables has important health benefits and curative powers. Wanted to sell this and make money. Added sugar to the corn flakes and made frosted flakes. Introduced the idea of bacteria being beneficial. The bulgarian men who ate bacteria lived very long and they ate yogurt made with the bacteia lactobacillus bulgaricus. He thought bacteria compete for nutrients and crowd out pathogenic bacteria.