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We’re not ‘mugs’ to hope for a health quick fix
source link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/30/were-not-mugs-to-hope-for-a-health-quick-fix/
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We’re not ‘mugs’ to hope for a health quick fix
Consumers are subjected to such a barrage of often spurious claims that it is hard not to be taken in
30 May 2023 • 7:00am
Quick health fixes don’t work. We know that – and yet it doesn’t stop us spending billions on tinctures and teas that insist the opposite, or diet foods in packaging that promises we’ll be dropping pounds in no time, or pills and now jabs that claim to help us slim or shed or shape up far faster than that old anachronism of moving more and eating less. In the case of dietary supplements, believing that they will work makes Britons “mugs,” according to Tim Spector, the epidemiologist....
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