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Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products

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Re: Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products

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post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what your point is. It's well established that soaking nuts and seeds so they begin to sprout is healthier. I realize that it's written with a marketing slant, but it's not wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouting#Nutrition

I'm trying to understand how the link you provided supports your claim. What is the supporting text, and how does the quote from Goop above relate?

Sure it does:

> "The desirable nutritional changes that occur during sprouting are mainly due to the breakdown of complex compounds into a more simple form, transformation into essential constituents and breakdown of nutritionally undesirable constituents. This is a reason why sprouts are also called pre-digested foods."[12]

Re: Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products

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post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what your point is. It's well established that soaking nuts and seeds so they begin to sprout is healthier. I realize that it's written with a marketing slant, but it's not wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouting#Nutrition

Nothing in your link says healthier

Healthier is highly subjective, but this sure sounds healthier to me:

> "The desirable nutritional changes that occur during sprouting are mainly due to the breakdown of complex compounds into a more simple form, transformation into essential constituents and breakdown of nutritionally undesirable constituents. This is a reason why sprouts are also called pre-digested foods."[12] "The metabolic activity of resting seeds increases as soon as they are hydrated during soaking. Complex biochemical changes occur during hydration and subsequent sprouting. The reserve chemical constituents, such as protein, starch and lipids, are broken down by enzymes into simple compounds that are used to make new compounds." "Sprouting grains causes increased activities of hydrolytic enzymes, improvements in the contents of total proteins, fat, certain essential amino acids, total sugars, B-group vitamins, and a decrease in dry matter, starch and anti-nutrients. The increased contents of protein, fat, fibre and total ash are only apparent and attributable to the disappearance of starch. However, improvements in amino acid composition, B-group vitamins, sugars, protein and starch digestibilities, and decrease in phytates and protease inhibitors are the metabolic effects of the sprouting process."

Re: Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products

#95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're underestimating how many people live in food deserts and basically don't have access to fresh food. That might seem like a nitpick against a larger argument, but I think it serves as a good example for why you need to take a close look at the environment that these people exist in as a whole, and that it likely goes beyond their innate habits or those of just their immediate family in childhood.

The food desert concept is way overblown. They exist to some degree, but a lot of people choose to buy shit food when it would be equally convenient and affordable to buy something good. People walking around with 32oz (~1 liter) soda cups are not unable to find anything else to drink, they're sugar addicts.

It's probably out of a study from the institute of healthy food.

Re: Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products

#97
post #67

I'm a bit confused why the author is unfazed by "eleuthero root" and "cordyceps mushrooms", but puts "nascent iodine" in scare quotes. Is it not nascent iodine? If no, then what is it? Oh no, it's nail clippings, isn't it. Gwyneth has tricked me yet again! Edit: Thanks to everyone who replied--I learned something!

One imagines it's the term "nascent" which is an obsolete/anachronistic descriptor for a chemical substance. It would be a little bit like using "caloric" (a substance once postulated in order to explain heat) or "luminous ether" (a medium once postulated to explain propagation of light) in an ad pitch.

Not to give anyone any ideas....

(To be maximally clear/fair, all three of these concepts were part of healthy scientific discourse at one period of time, but have since faded into obscurity. That said I don't know that "nascent" anything was ever demonstrated to have health benefits, at least in virtue of its purported nascence).

Re: Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products

#98

Hacker News readers would never buy nonsense due to trendy niche marketing. Unrelated did anyone see the latest teenage engineering gear at CES?

Sadly I see comments on HN almost daily that are sharing major Infowars / Zero Hedge talking points.

Re: Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products

#99
Something the article seems to overlook is why these seemingly antithetical companies are selling similar products. These are all 'white-label' products with high profit margins. Go to sites like Alibaba and you'll find countless manufacturers and distributors offering the same white-label health products you see on sites like Goop and Infowars.
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