As many of you who choose to read this Popcorn Stand know, I love Larry Davidâs âCurb Your Enthusiasm.â
In one episode, David comments, âHeâs bald and he lied. Heâs literally a bald-faced liar!â
Well in a sort of life imitates art type of thing, it turns out the thought that eating McDonaldâs fries could help treat baldness has turned out to be a bald-faced lie, so to speak.
I donât really have a problem with baldness â although I can tell thereâs been some thinning as my forehead has for some reason gotten higher over the years. Thereâs plenty of gray, though, and itâs going to stay that way as Iâll never take Grecian Formula (man am I dating myself) or Just For Men or whatever it is men take nowadays to get rid of the gray.
Iâm sort of glad the thing about McDonaldâs fries is a myth because I wouldâve missed the Hair Club guy who says, âNot only am I the founder, Iâm also a member.â Actually I havenât seen that guy in a while.
Well, then, I would miss Peter Brady telling me âthis is my real hair.â
The myth began when a Japanese researcher, Junji Fukada, linked an ingredient in McDonaldâs fries as a treatment for baldness.
Fukada was able to mass-prepare thousands of âhair follicle germsâ in the form of a silicone. Fukada was able to transplant the cultured follicles onto mice and see further hair growth.
The silicone used in the experiment just also happens to be used by McDonaldâs as an anti-foaming agent in its frying oil for its fries, chicken McNuggets and Filet Oâ Fish sandwiches.
The idea McDonaldâs products could actually help reduce baldness apparently got some traction as there were health reports going around eating these McDonaldâs products could possibly help reduce baldness.
For his part, Fukada said heâs baffled by why people thought his research showed eating McDonaldâs could possibly reduce baldness.
Fukada has said heâs actually been asked how many fries one has to eat to grow hair.
No wonder the Hamburgler wears a hat. Heâs surely bald.
â Charles Whisnand