[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
'eat gold for a long life'???? i don't care how soft it is, it can't be good for your intestines.

Oh? It's already known that you need several very poisonous metals in your diet for good nutrition, actually. Sodium, potassium, and magnesium, are all metals that are needed in substantial quantities for proper nutrition, not to mention plain old IRON. Many other metals like chromium and manganese are useful in trace amounts. Who's to say that gold doesn't have some role in our biology?

I dunno if 'gold leaf' is the way to consume it, though. I wouldn't eat iron filings to get my iron. Much better to get it in some chemically reduced form. Gold chloride maybe?

[ October 15, 2003, 17:02: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]