Select a food, nutrient, or diet: Acai berry Almonds Avocado Breast milk Caffeine Calcium Carbohydrates Carrots Celery Chia seeds Chocolate Cholesterol Cod liver oil Corn syrup Fast food Fat Figs Fish oil Fluoride Fructose Garlic Ginger Gluten Granola Grapefruit Grapes Kale Lettuce Milk Potassium Protein Raw food Red meat Salt Saturated fats Soda Sodium Soybean Spinach Sucrose Sugar Sunflower seeds Tea Tomato juice Trans fats Triglycerides Vegan diet Vitamin A Vitamin B Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin K Walnuts Whole grain Wheat
Select a health-related phrase: Good for you (searches for exact matches of the phrase "_____ is good for you") Bad for you (searches for exact matches of the phrase "_____ is bad for you") Acne AIDS Alzheimer's Anxiety Autism Balance Baldness Bipolar disorder Blood pressure Breast cancer Cancer Common cold Depression Dizziness Endurance Energy Erectile dysfunction Excessive sweating Fatigue Fever Flu Hangover Happiness Hearing Heart disease Heart health Intelligence Insomnia Kidney health Liver health Malaria Muscle growth Nausea Obesity Penis length Respiratory infection Schizophrenia Sex drive Skin health Speed Strength Stress Stroke Vision Well-being

The purpose of this script is to illustrate simply the current completely ridiculous state of our understanding of human nutrition. Namely, there's an amazingly long list of things that people think about nutrition--such a long list that it's just really really hard to imagine even a small fraction of these things actually being true.

See this blog post for more information.

Of course, not every combination really makes sense. For example, searching for "breast milk stroke" gives a little bit of pseudoscience claiming that drinking breast milk reduces the risk of stroke, but mostly it gives stuff about the breast stroke and some general stuff about breast milk. And, some things simply give perfectly reasonable results, like "coffee energy." However, it's really quite surprising how many word choices result in a ton of pseudoscience. For example, my first attempt at finding something that wouldn't give a real result was "breast milk Alzheimer's." It turns out that that search gives 2.4 million results...

Special thanks to the many people on Twitter who helped me compile this list