{"id":1133,"date":"2011-07-13T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T04:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:10:28","slug":"try-to-eat-less-than-a-million-bananas-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/try-to-eat-less-than-a-million-bananas-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Try to eat less than a million bananas a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Bananas are naturally <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banana_equivalent_dose\">slightly radioactive<\/a>. While it&#8217;s unlikely your body could retain all that radioactive potassium in those bananas, if it did you&#8217;d absorb enough radiation to cause an increased cancer risk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/radiation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/radiation-600x705.png\" alt=\"xkcd radiation chart\" title=\"radiation\" width=\"600\" height=\"705\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/radiation-600x705.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/radiation-300x352.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/radiation.png 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are disputes about those figures, of course, but at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caloriesinabanana.net\/\">~105 calories a banana<\/a>, you&#8217;re getting roughly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?aq=f&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=105+*+1000000#pq=105%20*%201000000%20%2F%202000&#038;hl=en&#038;cp=17&#038;gs_id=2d&#038;xhr=t&#038;q=105+*+1000000+\/+(2000+*+365)&#038;qe=MTA1ICogMTAwMDAwMCAvICgyMDAwICogMzY1KQ&#038;qesig=XIcwoP_Zgm1D_gUL3BiewQ&#038;pkc=AFgZ2tl78XnEzJuWUETJLUtFn45GblfRtLsVPn-sZqGOoOLlAm0nMx6ozKvcoZLqNSKinwCpu1yfsoKwrnsMl2EL-Ox6XPIDGw&#038;pf=p&#038;sclient=psy&#038;safe=off&#038;source=hp&#038;pbx=1&#038;oq=105+*+1000000+\/+(2000+*+365)&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=&#038;aql=&#038;gs_sm=&#038;gs_upl=&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&#038;fp=abacf67edd6c5110&#038;biw=1113&#038;bih=693\">143 times<\/a> your daily allotment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedieting.com\/tools\/calorie_calculator.htm\">2000 calories<\/a>, so probably you should cut back anyway. <\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>P.S. One BED (Banana Equivalent Dose) is 0.1 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsievert\">microsieverts<\/a> of radiation. XKCD claims that 100 millisieverts of radiation is the lowest dose linked to increased cancer risk. Take that with a grain of salt &#8230; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?aq=f&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=100msv+#sclient=psy&#038;hl=en&#038;safe=off&#038;source=hp&#038;q=100+millisieverts+%2F+0.1+microsieverts&#038;pbx=1&#038;oq=100+millisieverts+%2F+0.1+microsieverts&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=&#038;aql=&#038;gs_sm=e&#038;gs_upl=44464l57730l7l58080l39l35l6l0l0l6l306l4816l4.18.6.1l29&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&#038;fp=abacf67edd6c5110&#038;biw=1113&#038;bih=693\">do the math<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive. While it&#8217;s unlikely your body could retain all that radioactive potassium in those bananas, if it did you&#8217;d absorb enough radiation to cause an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1],"tags":[19,24],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-uncategorized","tag-hard-science","tag-the-killer-cookbook-of-marie-curie","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}