CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pomegranate Juice, Aromatase Inhibitor, Dietary Fiber

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181

Document Summary

Pomegranate will have been a good picked as food of knowledge in adam and eve since: Pomegranate has anti-cancer properties: contain compound called aromatase inhibitor. Advertiser will use this scientific information and then blow out of perspective -> that"s how pom pomegranate juice as been turn into a superhero doctor . An example: dried apricots might have been portrait as a miracle food -> since contain beta-carotene (antioxidant). Ppl living that only eating dried apricots (may not true) live a long live of 120 years. Therefore, ppl advertise dried apricots that cause and effects of long living -> so start selling apricots extract or pills for health identity. But, in apricot pill -> found a chemical called laetrile is extracted (found out to be a cancer remedy) -> advertise and blow up again that apricots and apricots pits become the answer to cancer. Tho scientifically proved that laetrile do not cure cancer.