Jonathan McRae
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You kind of have to go between the 11th of November and the 2nd of February.
Insects plotting.
Our second story that got a lot of attention in Newsround was about toast.
Someone says, everyone knows this.
There's nothing new regarding toast causing cancer.
My mum had a book back in the 80s entitled Foods That Cause Cancer.
It's a real mum book, isn't it?
Why would you buy that book?
Foods That Cause Cancer.
And the toast was prominent in that list.
I stopped reading about this when I came across, or I stopped reading the book when I came across fruit being classified in that way.
Everything is bad for you if you take enough of it to be bad for you.
So this is actually true because there is a lethal dose for every substance that is used in food or consumption by a human being, whether it's medicine or food.
And it's called the LD50.
And it's determined by calculating the amount of substance required to kill 50% of a test population.
And this could be anything.
This is toxicity.
So this could be milk.
It can be toast.
It can be water.