Getting over the ridiculous health claims

It seems like there’s new crop of magical cure-all claims everyday - or at least in every issue of a popular magazine. It’s one reason that I avoid the ‘health food store’ and vitamin shops for the few supplements that do seem to have some real scientific evidence backing up my use of them.

I don’t need somebody selling me snake oil that just might harm me.

In the current edition of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter (January 2010 issue) that came today, there are a couple of interesting debunkings of evergreen cure alls: aloe and colonic cleansing.

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