Bok choy, the culprit. (Creative Commons)

Well I'm not. And the point I'm trying to make is that headlines can be deceiving. 

I'm usually prepared for the deception though--I knowingly pick up a copy of the National Enquirer, I consciously click on Perez Hilton (or the Huffington Post, for that matter.) I submit myself to this cheese-fest or "Gotcha!" moment. 

This time, I was not prepared. 

Ever ready to be enlightened, I was doing some late night perusing of the New York Times, and I came across an article called "Regimens: Eat Your Vegetables, but Not Too Many." 

I'm hooked! What's next? You're going to tell me we should all live off of cookies and forgo the veggies?! (Wait, that fad diet already exists.) 

No but seriously. With a New York Times headline like that, I'm expecting a blowout study from a prestigious university that says vegetables should be consumed in moderation, alongside red velvet cupcakes and french fries. 

Well the latter is not true. But what is true is that an 88-year-old woman was eating between two to three pounds of raw bok choy daily because she thought it would control her diabetes. She ended up in the hospital--nearly comatose--with a serious thyroid condition. 

There is some science behind this. According to the May 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, consumption of bok choy in large (read: ENORMOUS) quantities can "inhibit thyroid function in animals." Who knew?

Now there's a lesson learned. And certainly one that won't be forgotten.