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Thu Sep 17, 2015, 09:46 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

DetlefK

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4. Did you know that garlic kills cancer?
Fri Sep 18, 2015, 05:33 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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