Kitchen Science

The thing about granite (often used in kitchen countertops) is, it's radioactive. I'm not sure that radon emissions are its only source of radioactivity, however.

Link:https://greenyplace.com/which-countertops-emit-radon

Keep that kitchen exhaust system on:

https://www.sciencealert.com/common-home-appliances-emit-trillions-of-harmful-pa...

And be aware that using pyrolysis to clean your oven will also emit lots of ultra fine particles.

For those like me who drink Coke Zero, here is food for thought:

https://www.sciencealert.com/even-low-doses-of-aspartame-could-have-alarming-hea...

So, Coke Zero gets its artificial sweetness from aspartame. I don’t think I will drink Coke Zero anymore.

>4 MaureenRoy: FWIW I think the artifial sweeteners are perfectly safe compared to the amount of sugar they replace. But giving up on Coke Zero is probably beneficial for both health and economic reasons :-)

>5 bnielsen: — Agreed. There is an additional area of concern for aspartame, since it is also an excitotoxin:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10459792/

It turns out that nowadays, Diet Coke is sweetened with aspartame as well.

On this subject, a UCLA dietician says the following:

“Excitotoxins are toxins that excite the brain and nerve cells beyond their normal physiologic capacity. Excitotoxins such as aspartame and monosodium glutamate (MSG) overstimulate neuron receptors, affect brain cells and promote neuronal death.”

“Avoid excitotoxins.”

Those are excerpts from her 2018 111 page paperback book, Managing Parkinson’s With Diet:

https://pegasusbookstore.com/book/9781731507686

Recently the main carbonated drinks I buy are spring waters. Dr. Zevia has carbonated drinks sweetened only with natural stevia.