Lead(II) acetate - Wikipedia
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  • Chozo@fedia.io
    8·
    3 months ago

    Hahaha, what a bunch of morons, sugar isn’t even good for you!

    [sips sugar-free microplastic energy-slurry]

    Buncha dummies.

    • xep@fedia.io
      01·
      3 months ago

      Artificial sugar still causes an insulin response. Better stick with the vinegared lead.

            • despoticruin@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Corn sugar is made up of a pretty large amount of glucose, so eating corn is like eating one of the shock tabs. Which is also a good way to confirm that it’s glucose; rice, beans, and chocolate cake all contain pretty small amounts of just glucose, the other sugars need time to break down.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    They had a lot of names for it.

    “salt of Saturn”

    And a lot if uses.

    How much would cause brain damage, and how much brain damage did the average Roman have?

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      One thing that’s overlooked about the Romans and lead exposure is that they did have organic forms of oral chelation available, which helped mitigate the effects. The most commonly quoted version of which is eating garlic, but many foods and nutrients can either decrease the amount of lead you absorb from the other foods that you eat, or increase the amount of lead that you excrete, which decreases their effects on your body and brain.

      Of course, these foods by themselves are not going to completely remove all of the lead in your blood, but it would have reduced the amount, so it’s not like they were completely raw-dogging lead in their wine.

      https://lead.org.au/fs/Foods_for_Lead_Detox_A-Z_20150214.pdf

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    It has a mildly sweet taste and also causes brain damage

    Well… but so does Jack Daniel’s. Interestingly, the Romans were aware of the dangers of lead poisoning, including that it could cause madness - which they called “plumbism” (plumbum being the Latin word for lead). Kind of like we know about the dangers of alcohol, flavored sugar water, and many other things we consume wantonly. Like us, they apparently just didn’t GAF.