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I always enjoy dissecting the language used in advertising so I've been following this with interest.

http://www.slate.com/articles/...ound_scientific.html


The article is interesting but I was relieved when on a second reading of this sentence I realised it didn't say "pancreas" as I'd first thought.



"but the mythic power of vitamin C lives on thanks to our insatiable desire for panaceas"


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
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Yes, I've been keeping up with the court cases on this. I so agree that the effects of nutrition are hugely overblown.
 
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