On: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

[phil]

“I went back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Definitely not fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks two to three times a day

Wait, banana peels?

[stjohn → phil]

Haven't you heard, it's all about whole foods.

[MikeCapone → phil]

Well, it's not like they're toxic... Have you seen the movie K-Pax?

[Tichy → MikeCapone]

I would expect banana peels to be quite toxic on average. Lots of pesticides, and unless you live in a place where bananas grow, who knows what they do to the bananas to prepare them for shipping.

[kragen → Tichy]

A few pesticides are quite toxic to humans. Most aren't. There are some (e.g. cypermethrin) with no known lethal dose in humans.

[jlazarow → Tichy]

Wouldn't organic bananas avoid that?

[Tichy → jlazarow]

I wouldn't count on it, as there are varying definitions of organic.

[pyrhho → MikeCapone]

Though they apparently are radioactive! :)

[smcl → pyrhho]

I like the "Banana Equivalent Dose" measurement:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

[TimothyBurgess → MikeCapone]

Have you seen Back to the Future?