Think Again: The health and wellness myths almost everyone falls for

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  This is in conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  Our Think Again series continues today.

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  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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  Maybe 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 got to go, okay, they were going to see the billboards.

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  How do we prove that they were going to buy the thing?

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

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  How do we prove that there were 100,000 of the people who were going to see the thing buy the thing and it was going to make them fat?

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  There is sort of so much missing from that line of logic.

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  The person that you're hearing debunk the this study is Aubrey Gordon.

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  She spends a lot of time doing this exact thing on the podcast Maintenance Phase with her co host, Michael Hobbs.

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  Every week there's going to be some new study and it's going to show something surprising.

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  And the findings that are a little bit against what you thought you believed, those generate clicks.

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