[eni]

it's not turmeric, it's curcumin, which is about 2% of turmeric by mass (so, you'd need to eat ~4.5g turmeric daily to match study doses)

Typical Indian cooking uses turmeric in pretty much everything. I wouldn't be surprised if daily consumption of turmeric is very close to the figures you mentioned.

[wastedhours]

Interestingly, one of the recent fads I've been seeing has been for "turmeric lattes" - maybe can reach that level even if you're not keen on Indian cuisine?

[vanderZwan]

Apparently, eating more than a teaspoon of tumeric a day increases the risk of kidney stones though, so don't overdo it.

I've been mixing it through my oatmeal, together with chilli-pepper and black pepper, a bit of cardamom, and a teaspoon of real cinnamon (the non-cumerin kind). While it feels like it works, I know that the placebo effect is probably much stronger than any real effect these foods have. Still, a placebo effect is still a real effect on my mood, so that's still a kind of health benefit I guess. If nothing else the spices help me wake up!

Tangent regarding health food fads: these days I mainly use nutritionfacts.org[0] to determine which of those are actually supported by the latest nutrition research. It is the only health food/diet website that I know of that directly cites nutrition research and continuously scours the latest papers for new findings - sources are always linked, and quotes are directly lifted from the papers with no modification (so less likely to suffer from "stronger or opposite of what the paper actually says"-shenanigans often seen elsewhere).

Some of the other things I tried out based on that website have too big of an effect to just be placebo: adding blue-berries to a meal really reduces sugar rushes/crashes in the hours after it[1]. Taking a table spoon of freshly broken flax seeds[2] does a lot to counter the rise in blood pressure due to my ADD medication (I measured it, plus I feel a lot less discomfort in my chest area and less jittery).

Last time I mentioned that website here, it was in a discussion of which diets are healthy. Ironically, it was the only comment in the discussion that attracted multiples downvotes without explanation, while everyone else was sharing their unsourced opinions.

[0] https://nutritionfacts.org/

[1] https://nutritionfacts.org/video/green-smoothies-what-does-t...

[2] https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax-seeds-for-hypertension...

[eni]

"turmeric lattes" :)

My kitchen medicine for running nose, soar throat is hot milk with turmeric. Works for me most of the times.

[scotty79]

Also:

http://www.ijamhrjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2349-4220;year...

> Worldwide, esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer [...]. In India, it is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related deaths.

Granted it's probably due to alcohol and tobacco but curry probably won't save you from cancer.

[roystonvassey]

This is spurious correlation at its best. Terrible science at it is worst.

[roflchoppa]

chewing tobacco is more common, at least, on the uncles I watch.