What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no one's been really doing them. — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries, or… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
I think we all should try and eat a good diet. It's actually a wonderful to eat a good diet, because you're eating all… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the… — Bruce Ames Copy Share
Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of… — Bruce Ames Copy Share
What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
