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What Is the Truth About Food?
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#1: You can reduce cholesterol and blood pressure without using drugs.

#2: Broccoli's super-chemical, sulforaphane, can cure cancer.

#3: You can reduce cholesterol and blood pressure without using drugs.

#4: When your stomach is empty, it produces a hormone called ghrelin, which makes you feel hungry.

#5: Fatter people have higher metabolic rates than thinner people, not the other way around.

#6: Garlic causes the body to relaease nitric oxide into the bloodstream. So does viagra.

#7: Regular users of caffeine suffer withdrawal symptoms when deprived of their favorite drug.

#8: Eating little and often can keep you going for longer.

#9: Most people don't need to drink two liters of water every day—and coffee, tea and alcoholic drinks do count toward your fluid intake.

#10: Tomato skins are a great source of lycopene, a chemical that helps prevent skin cancer.


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