Nightjar
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| Subject: Licorice!! Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:35 pm | |
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- Man dies after eating bag of licorice every day for a few weeks
A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life, doctors say
A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks threw his nutrients out of whack and caused the 54-year-old man’s heart to stop, doctors reported.
“Even a small amount of licorice you eat can increase your blood pressure a little bit,” said Dr Neel Butala, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who described the case in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The problem is glycyrrhizic acid, found in black licorice and in many other foods and dietary supplements containing licorice root extract. It can cause dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other minerals, principally electrolytes.
Eating as little as 2 ounces of black licorice a day for two weeks could cause a heart rhythm problem, especially for people over the age of 40, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/24/man-licorice-dies-massachusetts _________________ OK, I'm an old shoe
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
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| Subject: Re: Licorice!! Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:56 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: Licorice!! Thu Sep 24, 2020 6:06 pm | |
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11091 Karma : 386 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: Licorice!! Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:51 am | |
| It seems that liquorice death man smoked 20 a day and was a former heroin addict.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/health/black-licorice-death-boston.html
How ironic that it should be eating liquorice that killed him off. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
Posts : 104232 Karma : 848 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Licorice!! Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:51 am | |
| I should add a poll I suppose... _________________ OK, I'm an old shoe
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Licorice!! Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:31 pm | |
| Should, yeah, but you ain't got the Aniseed Balls to do it. |
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11091 Karma : 386 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: Licorice!! Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:45 pm | |
| Hey, show a bit of consideration. It takes allsorts you know. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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| Subject: Re: Licorice!! Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:48 pm | |
| I know, I forgot myself, sometime it's takes someone special to show how wrong you've been. You're a Star Anise. |
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