Why are you, as a man, afraid of sunflowers.

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• The O6-O3 ratio: A critical appraisal
• Seed Oils: Are They Actually Toxic?
• No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats
• Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
• Do Seed Oils Make You Sick?
• Seed oils: Are they healthy or harmful?
• ToxGuide: Hexane
• Dietary linoleic acid intake and blood inflammatory markers
• Effect of dietary alpha-linolenic acid on blood inflammatory markers
• Changes in consumption of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids
• The Skinny on Fats
• Dietary oleic acid drives obesogenic adipogenesis
• How Seed Oils May Be Affecting Your Body Fat and Health
• Stanford nutrition expert breaks down effects of seed oils
• The Newest Bitcoin Diet Trend Is Hating ‘Seed Oils’
• Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Coronary Artery Disease
• The Great Con-ola

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We’re talking about our first diet MLM and IT’S A REAL DOOZY!

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• Herbalife: Weighty Profits and Government Probes 
• Herbalife Exec's Death Prompts Bizarre Fallout
• Autopsy on Herbalife founder finds death caused by accidental overdose 
• The Uncertain Start of a Remarkable Life
• Nobel Prize Winner Didn't Disclose Herbalife Contract 
• Latinos crucial to Herbalife's financial health
• Latino Group Demands Herbalife Probe
• The Big Short War 
• The Siege of Herbalife
• After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power
• Herbalife Will Restructure and Pay $200 Million to Settle FTC Charges 
• An inside look at the $200 million FTC settlement 
• U.S. says Herbalife to pay $123.1 million to resolve China bribery case 
• Herbalife announces new CEO to lead the L.A. nutrition company

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• Mark Hughes' origin story
• Senate committee hearing 
• Celebrity endorsement
• Former Herbalife Distributors Speak Out

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Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement. 

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• Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing
• Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues
• Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods
• A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing
• Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain
• Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
• Ultra-processed foods and mortality
• Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study
• Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’
• Food addiction: a valid concept?
• The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating
• Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?
• Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts
• Sugar addiction: the state of the science
• The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food
• Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries
• Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake 

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From our Patreon feed, we're catching up with RFK Jr. and his cadre of "Make America Healthy Again" influencers.

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Meet the tech bro on a noble quest to double his lifespan, improve his productivity and irritate his waitress.  

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• Mycotoxins Myth: The Truth About Mold in Coffee 
• Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal Feed  
• You, Only Better
• FTC letter to Dave Asprey
• Alternative medicine fans see RFK Jr. as a hero. The field’s skeptics worry. 
• The Bulletproof Diet is everything wrong with eating in America 
• Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype 
• Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich

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The places where humans live the longest are explained by traditional lifestyles, widespread incest or systematic fraud, there is no fourth option.

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• The global pattern of centenarians highlights deep problems in demography
• Late-life mortality is underestimated because of data errors
• Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud
• Do People in ‘Blue Zones’ Actually Live Longer?
• They really are that old: a validation study of centenarian prevalence in Okinawa
• The Real Facts Supporting Jeanne Calment as the Oldest Ever Human 
• A Population Where Men Live As Long As Women: Villagrande Strisaili, Sardinia
• Typologies of Extreme Longevity Myths 
• Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature
• Identification of a geographic area characterized by extreme longevity in the Sardinia island
• Specific features of the oldest old from the Longevity Blue Zones in Ikaria and Sardinia
• Making the Blue Zones: Neoliberalism and nudges in public health promotion
• Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle?
• Familial transmission of human longevity

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Because we live in hell, here is last month's bonus episode about RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign with a new intro about what he could do at HHS.

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The internet gets weird investigating the "disappearance" of America's gay best friend.

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• Richard Simmons Show
• Richard Simmons, the Original Queer Eye
• The Grand Duke of Diet and the Clown Prince of Fitness 
• The Sultan of Svelte 
• The Deregulation Of Commercial Television
• Simmons Says Slapping Mesa Man Was Meant as Playful 
• Richard Simmons’ Life Was a ‘Never-Ending Work in Progress’  
• Richard Simmons ordered to pay $130,000 after transgender lawsuit 
• Richard Simmons' family asks Pauly Shore to please stop
• Pauly Shore's Richard Simmons biopic might actually be dead
• Richard Simmons' Death Was an 'Accident'
• Richard Simmons' Housekeeper of 35 Years Breaks Her Silence
• How eating disorders can damage the heart 

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Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans. 

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• Still Hungry...After All These Years by Richard Simmons 
• "Hair-Do"
•  Anatomy Asylum Commercial
• Richard Simmons: New Orleans's hometown hero
• A Speedy History of America’s Addiction to Amphetamine 

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How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.

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• The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre
• Myers Briggs Type Preferences
• What Personality Tests Really Deliver
• The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work 
• Cautionary Comments Regarding the MBTI
• The Barnum Effect in Personality Assessment
• The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs
• Why the Myers-Briggs personality test is totally meaningless 
• Can you truly know yourself in a quiz?
• What You Don't Know about This Personality Test Can Hurt You
• MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too
• Personality Tests Aren't All the Same 
• The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 

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