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From the Vault: Reconsider the Bean, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Relationship Between Foods That Make You Fart and Fertility

Albala explores some linguistic connections between ancient words for beans in various languages. He also looks at biological realities that could possibly have to do with beans and how they could have influenced the creation of this story about pythagoras. The first is based on a heritable genetic condition that causes an enzim deficiency. People with g six p d d can have horrible even deadly reactions to fava beans ind their pollen.

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