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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Archae

(46,314 posts) Thu Sep 17, 2015, 10:46 AM Sep 2015

Say "health food," and the idiots will buy it.

Cracked.com has an article about some really stupid "health foods."

I mean, "detoxing" babies?

Making a smoothie with an frog?

And this one, from Whole Paycheck...I mean Whole Foods:

http://www.cracked.com/article_23070_6-trendy-new-health-foods-that-are-full-crap.html

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Say "health food," and the idiots will buy it. (Original Post) Archae Sep 2015 OP

John Oliver's take on Whole Foods. progressoid Sep 2015 #1

Also, progressoid Sep 2015 #2

When I read about the frog smoothie, that's the first thing I thought of too! Archae Sep 2015 #3

Did you know that garlic kills cancer? DetlefK Sep 2015 #4

progressoid

(49,968 posts)

1. John Oliver's take on Whole Foods.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Sep 17, 2015, 03:00 PM

Sep 2015

Also, the detoxing a baby was hilarious.

progressoid

(49,968 posts)

2. Also,

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Sep 17, 2015, 03:32 PM

Sep 2015

Archae

(46,314 posts)

3. When I read about the frog smoothie, that's the first thing I thought of too!

Reply to progressoid (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 17, 2015, 04:31 PM

Sep 2015

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

4. Did you know that garlic kills cancer?

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Fri Sep 18, 2015, 06:33 AM

Sep 2015

No kidding. Scientists mixed cancer-cells and garlic-juice in a petri-dish and the cancer-cells died very fast.

Now all we need is getting every cancer-patient some garlic-bread.

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