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Suckers for a detox in the Chinese tradition (Useless celebrity fad exposed)

1 posted on 01/02/2008 11:07:31 PM PST by Stoat
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Ping


2 posted on 01/02/2008 11:12:15 PM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Ted Danson a decade ago told us the seas would be lifeless if we didn’t “do something.” Santa Monica imposed a tax to “do something.” Turns out Ted was wrong.

Alar?

Now it is global warming. It is a means for a celebrity’s publicist to get these folks “in the news” and to show “how much I care.” They care, we all pay. Schlock science.


3 posted on 01/02/2008 11:23:37 PM PST by bajabaja
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Sense About Science

4 posted on 01/02/2008 11:24:23 PM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Shut up and act. I don’t want to hear your drivel.


5 posted on 01/02/2008 11:30:06 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Stoat

LOL

They must have done brain scans on these people and found them to be lacking in well, brains.


6 posted on 01/02/2008 11:30:18 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Stoat
I get most of my information from celebrities. And when you learn from enlightened individuals such as these - how can one go wrong?

"Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost an important part of your life.” — Brooke Shields

“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.” — Britney Spears

“I’ve got taste. It’s inbred in me.” — David Hasselhoff

"If you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote." - Cameron Diaz

7 posted on 01/02/2008 11:36:45 PM PST by TightyRighty
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To: Stoat

Just as big an issue today are scientists that want to be “stars”.


10 posted on 01/02/2008 11:40:09 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: Stoat

I disagree on the brain age game - studies have shown that dementia is less likely in people who maintain an active mental life - I’ve used the program and found it quite stimulating.

Now if she makes any medical claims that could be a problem - they would need to be documented but all I’ve heard her say was it makes her feel alert and like her mind is younger.


11 posted on 01/02/2008 11:43:24 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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When your name's Nicole Kidman or Gwyneth Paltrow, everyone wants to hear what you have to say.

Er, um, no, media hypestress.

19 posted on 01/02/2008 11:55:14 PM PST by JennysCool (Happy New Year!)
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To: Stoat

The Kidman quote is harmless. Her real crime is becoming a blonde.


23 posted on 01/03/2008 12:00:05 AM PST by ValerieTexas
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“I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid tumours.”

Do some people actually live on non-biological food? Or is Gwyneth Paltrow a blonde? Or maybe she knows some sulfate reducing bacteria with tumors.


29 posted on 01/03/2008 12:53:22 AM PST by haroldeveryman
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Most people recall that the pretty boys and girls in school who were brainless academic failures, sometimes found their sole avenue of achievement in acting.

Why should we pay even the slightest attention to people we all know from personal experience to be functionally retarded?


33 posted on 01/03/2008 1:40:44 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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"There is little evidence to implicate particular diets or particular foods with increased risk of cancer."

Notice trhe scientiest doesn't say there is "no evidence". I do think diet can affect the incidence of cancer particularly colon cancer.

34 posted on 01/03/2008 2:55:09 AM PST by Raycpa
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"Miss Kidman, who appears in the Christmas blockbuster the Golden Compass"

Anyone who claims that Golden Compass was a blockbuster is an idiot.

36 posted on 01/03/2008 3:21:49 AM PST by american_ranger (Never ever use DirecTV)
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To: Stoat

The Hollywood stars are for the most part uneducated dolts. The problem is that the MSM gives them credence as if they were brilliant scientists.


39 posted on 01/03/2008 6:15:10 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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“it’s almost impossible for, say, a toxicologist to eclipse a Stella McCartney or a Gwyneth Paltrow in order to give the public the facts.”

Which proves how stupid the “MASSES” are.


43 posted on 01/03/2008 8:22:49 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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When your name's Nicole Kidman or Gwyneth Paltrow, everyone wants to hear what you have to say.

Um, no, not EVERYONE.
44 posted on 01/03/2008 8:23:32 AM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Stoat

“eating biological foods”

Excuse me? What?


45 posted on 01/03/2008 8:24:46 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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“If a quarter of kids are overweight now, then when they grow up and have kids, half of them will be overweight.

“And then if they have kids, everybody will be overweight.”

This just doesn’t make any sense at all!

“But John Garrow, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of London, said: “Obesity is not mainly genetically determined, although it does ‘run in families’ because families share a similar environment.’”

I don’t quite buy that PC line, trying to dismiss genetic components. God forbid we say that fat might be a genetic problem. It’s obvious that genetics plays a part, just looking at body types of different isolated ethnicities.


46 posted on 01/03/2008 8:28:43 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

— Albert Einstein (to Heinrich Zanger, Dec 1919)


48 posted on 01/03/2008 1:02:57 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline has been Reutered. (Can you tell?))
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