Did you ever wonder if the food you eat is a direct effect on your health, well being

and longevity?

Well, I'm here to end that mystery you ARE the food you eat.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast, I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we ask about the right fruit to eat, the best portion size and how it should be served

and we start with the exotic leechy fruit which is actually toxic under certain circumstances.

Leechy fruits have been used in many cultures for the folk medicine treatment of everything

from farts to testicular swelling.

Yeah, but arsenic, mercury and lead are also included in many traditional remedies, so

how much is that really telling us?

But leechies have been apparently shown to exhibit numerous health benefits, but they

side-studies like this.

The protective effect of a leechy flower extract on cardiovascular health and a high-fat-fed

hamster.

What are you supposed to do with that?

You don't even eat the flowers and you're not a hamster.

Hard to argue with this, though, a flavor that's sweet, fragrant and delicious, which is

white.

I love them so much, but then I saw papers like this.

A child killing toxin, merges from shadows, scientists link mystery deaths to the consumption

of leechies.

In Vietnam, it was called Nightmare and Sephalyte is unexplained outbreaks in children coinciding

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