You know those metal detectors at the airport? I guess if you tried to carry a piece of iron

through them, it'd set them off and you wouldn't get through. Well, what about the iron

in your blood? Shouldn't that set them off, too? Because according to one urban legend

anyway, it's happened at least once to a guy with too much iron in his blood. We're going

to answer this and other questions sent in by students today. Student questions are up next. Unskeptoid.

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Wherever I go, speaking to student audiences, food woo continues to be the most prevalent theme

that I run into. By food woo, I mean pseudo-scientific beliefs about food. Some food is incredibly

bad for you, but nobody has noticed yet. Or some food incredibly brings miraculous health,

but the industry covers it up. So we're going to start this round of student questions with a few

such beliefs. They all follow the same basic theme with this particular food diet or eating habit,

bring incredible health or incredible detriment, like I've heard on the internet.

Sometimes claims that sound astonishing are true, but more often than not, they're just urban

legends. Here's a perfect example to start with, the kneading habit that your mother probably

always warned you about. Hi, Brian. My name is Chris and I'm a PhD student at the University of New England,

a New South Wales Australia. I rarely eat breakfast until mid-morning, but people around me often

tell me breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I know that I suggest that I am sabotaging

my own potential by not having a large breakfast. I have found conflicting reports online

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