Rebroadcast: The health and wellness myths almost everyone falls for

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  Hi there.

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  For this last episode of 2022, we're throwing it back to our archives.

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  This is from our series Think Again, which first ran over the summer.

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  It was all about rethinking old ideas about our relationships, work, personal lives, and exploring new ones.

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  If you're considering a New Year's resolution about your health, this episode is for you.

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  I hope you enjoy it.

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  Foreign this is in conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  Today, how to navigate wellness culture and decode junkie health science.

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  A few weeks ago, an article was circulating online.

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  Maybe you saw it on social media.

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  It was about a health study done in London that claimed a ban on junk food advertising, led to almost 100,000 fewer people becoming obese and that it could end up saving Britain's National Health Service £200 million.

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  What?

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  I don't know that you can prove that there were 100,000 people who were going to become fat.

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  And because you took down these billboards, they're not fat now.

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  When you think about it, it doesn't really make sense, does it?

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  That is like a long chain of events that you gotta go, okay, they were gonna see the billboards.

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  How do we prove that they were gonna buy the thing?

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  How do we prove that the thing was gonna make them fat?

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  How do we prove that there were a hundred thousand of the people who were gonna see the thing buy the thing and it was gonna make them fat?

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