• marlowe221@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        As a white person, and an American, let me assure you that we can turn anything into a mystical ultra healthy superfood.

        Reality be damned.

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          14 days ago

          If it has vitamins that fast food doesn’t have, then technically in America it can be qualified as a superfood.

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        13 days ago

        Superfoods aren’t even the worst kind of snake oil. They’re ultimately not directly harmful.

        When radium was discovered, scammers advertised it as a cure-all: if radiation kills healthy cells, a little radiation must surely kill only weak, diseased cells. Radium was put in everything. Face creams. Toothpaste. Butter. Underwear. Men were told to strap radium to their nuts to improve their stamina. Radithor was just vials of water with radium in it. It was an insane time.

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    13 days ago

    Wait, nickel? Is that one true? Does that include things like stainless steel?

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      13 days ago

      I don’t think you should take anything on that list seriously. You know, it being a random screenshot on a meme on the internet and all.

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        Well, that’s why I asked if anyone knew about it. Searching for it actually returns some information about its toxicity, but it seems to be in scenarios different from our household items