Teflon Diet, Garlic Milk and Zebra Cows Triumph at 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes
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The 2025 Ig Nobel prizes awarded research on unconventional topics like Teflon diet and garlic milk, sparking concerns about the direction of food nutrition research.
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It is kind of surprising to me that the experiment didn't kill the rats though! https://doi.org/10.1177/1932296815626726
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Other forever chemicals on the other hand can be quite dangerous. Veritasium did a nice video on the topic some time ago, in case you want to know more.