Can coconut oil prevent Alzheimer's disease and reduce cardiovascular disease? Can drinking tea lead to constipation or anemia? Is the egg the killer of the heart or the "savior" of the heart ... The book Pseudoscience at the Table answers more than 40 kinds of food safety and nutrition and health care issues that readers are most concerned about, such as the healthy consumption of common controversial ingredients such as coconut oil, tea, vitamin supplements, enzymes and probiotics, hoping to build readers' resistance to health care rumors, save a lot of time to buy nutritional supplements and delay the treatment of major diseases.

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The author of this book is Lin Qingshun, a professional reviewer of the top medical magazine New England Journal of Medicine and a professor at the University of California School of Medicine. In 2008, Lin Qingshun saw a bird's nest advertisement on TV, which said that a university professor found that this brand of bird's nest contained more epidermal growth factor (EGF) than other brands of bird's nest, and an American doctor won the Nobel Prize for discovering EGF. So this brand of bird's nest has the best skin care effect. However, EGF is a kind of protein. Once eaten in the stomach, it will be broken down into amino acids and lose its efficacy. Unbearable, Lin Qingshun found the professor's email and complained to him about the absurdity of the advertisement. Since then, this advertisement has never appeared again.

In recent years, the topic of health care has become more and more hot, and all kinds of health care knowledge are flying all over the sky, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false. Therefore, after retiring from the University of California on 20 15, Lin Qingshun founded the website of "Scientific Health Care" and devoted himself to providing readers with scientific health care information. The main source of scientific basis is the papers published in scientific journals. For every article published on the website, Lin Qingshun will provide the source of references. He will also let readers know which words are scientific evidence and which words are personal opinions. If you have any questions, you can write to ask, and Professor Lin Qingshun will answer them truthfully.

Most of the articles in Pseudoscience at the Table are written to answer readers' questions. For each answer, the author used a lot of scientific research to prove it, helping readers to crack the rumors that various ingredients cause cancer, uncovering the truth of nutritional supplements such as vitamin supplements, enzymes, probiotics and collagen, and smashing the unreliable health rumors that have been spread among elders, the elderly and friends for a long time. This book was selected as "Recommended Excellent Publications for the Elderly in China in 2020".

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