Eating wild, foraged mushrooms can result in liver failure or death because misidentification is common
Foraging and eating wild mushrooms can result in liver failure and even death because mistaking toxic mushrooms for edible varieties is common, illustrates a case published in CMAJ (Canadian…
July 13, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cmaj, death-because, edible-varieties, liver-failure, mistaking-toxic, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, wild-mushrooms
Revisiting Scott’s Polar Trek Towards Starvation
On the centenary of Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole, a study to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on Sunday 1st July has shown that Scott’s men starved to death because they were consuming far too few calories to fuel their daily exertion…
July 1, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: consuming-far, daily, death-because, meeting-on-sunday, men-starved, oncalldietitian.com, scott, society, terra, terra-nova, the-centenary, too-few
