Pick your poison: It might actually be good for you

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

NEW YORK — Nature is full of poisons, and that can be good for humans.Poisons cause harm by interfering with processes important for life. Some poisons, such as arsenic, occur in mineral form, but living things manufacture many of them.

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