Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Walnut as brain


Food for thought...
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Brian: Walnuts must be good for our brains, I mean the resemblance...
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Food for the cerebellum
Dr Alimentari: Walnuts are good for brain health, yes, because of their Omega 3 content. But it’s a questionable cause logical fallacy that just because it looks like a brain, it’s good for our brains.
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Brian: Why does it look like a brain then?
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Dr Alimentari: Inside the walnut shell, and inside the brain, there is scaffolding of white matter. The brain, or grey matter, grows around this scaffolding.
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Voice-over
Other food-body shape fallacies: celery being shaped like bone (although contains silicon which is good for bones), a tomato shaped like a heart (although it contains the antioxidant lycopene which might reduce risk of heart disease).
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