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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCanadian doctors slam Gwyneth Paltrow-endorsed coffee enema
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Article from http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/health/canadian-doctors-gwyneth-paltrow-goop-coffee-enema-1.4479955
Canadian doctors slam Gwyneth Paltrow-endorsed coffee enema
'Keep the coffee out of your rectum and in your cup'
The Canadian Press
January 9, 2018
Gwyneth Paltrow's natural lifestyle website Goop, which has been widely criticized for promoting potentially dangerous products based on pseudoscience, is now recommending a do-it-yourself coffee enema to "supercharge your detox."
The $135 US Implant-O-Rama is the latest offering being touted on Goop's website featuring health, fitness and beauty products, which the actress has said she plans to make available to Canadians.
The idea of using coffee as a colonic to detox the bowel and the body has been around for a long time, but it's been widely debunked and there's no scientific evidence to support it, said Tim Caulfield, a health law expert at the University of Alberta and a vocal critic of the culture of celebrity-based health advice.
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'Keep the coffee out of your rectum and in your cup'
The Canadian Press
January 9, 2018
Gwyneth Paltrow's natural lifestyle website Goop, which has been widely criticized for promoting potentially dangerous products based on pseudoscience, is now recommending a do-it-yourself coffee enema to "supercharge your detox."
The $135 US Implant-O-Rama is the latest offering being touted on Goop's website featuring health, fitness and beauty products, which the actress has said she plans to make available to Canadians.
The idea of using coffee as a colonic to detox the bowel and the body has been around for a long time, but it's been widely debunked and there's no scientific evidence to support it, said Tim Caulfield, a health law expert at the University of Alberta and a vocal critic of the culture of celebrity-based health advice.
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Canadian doctors slam Gwyneth Paltrow-endorsed coffee enema (Original Post)
sl8
Jan 2018
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brooklynite
(94,794 posts)1. With or without cream?
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)2. I still can't figure out why she and Chris Martin are no longer together.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)3. If you go to Starbucks you're taking it up the ass already.
Thank you I'll be here all weekend.
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marylandblue
(12,344 posts)5. Well that would certainly perk me up
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)6. Churning the butt coffee
I have a friend who uses the phrase "Churning the butt coffee" to mean he needs to take a dump. This takes that phrase to a whole new level!
underpants
(182,951 posts)7. Avoid sugar cubes
snooper2
(30,151 posts)8. Gwyneth Paltrow proved you don't have to be smart to be an actress...
Ben Carson proved you don't have to be smart to be a brain surgeon...
We need to start holding a different class of people up to admire. Like maybe folks who work at NOAA or something
Mendocino
(7,515 posts)10. Jenny Mccarthy
FSogol
(45,555 posts)11. She proved that you don't have to be smart to be a Playboy Playmate.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)9. The inevitable McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit will be epic. nt
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)12. I imagine that would make one pretty hyper