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charcoal /oss/taxonomy/term/2073/all en You Don’t Need a Binder in Your Detox Kit, and You Don’t Need a Detox Kit /oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/you-dont-need-binder-your-detox-kit-and-you-dont-need-detox-kit “You don’t even know what a binder is when you’re doing a parasite cleanse. I came from Western medicine and I didn’t know what a binder was! We didn’t use those!” So says Kim Rogers, who proclaims herself a “worm queen,” to <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mrsrogershood/video/7170453152649465131">her nearly half a million followers on TikTok</a>. Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9358 at /oss Fire Up That Barbecue! /oss/article/health-and-nutrition-general-science/fire-barbecue The word “barbecue” derives from the ancient Caribbean tradition of supporting food over a fire with a scaffolding made from green wood which in Spanish was called "barbacoa." The technique itself was referred to as "boucan." Shipwrecked sailors and runaway servants who found themselves on Caribbean islands picked up the method and came to be called "boucaniers," or in English, "buccaneers." Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:52:48 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9184 at /oss Do Activated Charcoal Face Masks Actually Work? /oss/article/you-asked/do-activated-charcoal-face-masks-actually-work They are being talked about all over the Internet as a way of clarifying the skin and removing “toxins", but is there any science to back up the use of charcoal face masks? Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:49:47 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 6858 at /oss Charcoal is one of the most important substances ever discovered /oss/article/environment-health/charcoal-one-most-important-substances-ever-discovered Burn any animal or vegetable matter with a limited supply of air, as is the case inside a wood pile, and you are left with charcoal, essentially carbon mixed with some mineral ash. The fact that charcoal burns better than wood was probably noted soon after man learned to control fire over a million years ago. The first use of charcoal for purposes other than providing heat was around 30,000 BC when cavemen used it as a pigment for drawing on the walls of caves. Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:52:36 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2291 at /oss