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Great idea. Don't go anywhere, stay away from everyone. That'll show us.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)What the fuck does that mean?
Hekate
(90,683 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Hekate
(90,683 posts)Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)(I was going to post video of Monty Python's "Mr. Hilter and the Minehead By-Election" sketch, but won't because of the Nazi imagery. It's on YouTube.)
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)You are owning me too vigorously...ouch.
I am channeling my inner Willie Wonka:
Nevilledog
(51,103 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)brewens
(13,584 posts)Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)Ha ha ha, "my body my choice." NOT IN TEXAS, SHITBAG
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)hatrack
(59,585 posts)McKeith is a menace to the public understanding of science. She seems to misunderstand not nuances, but the most basic aspects of biology - things that a 14-year-old could put her straight on.
She talks endlessly about chlorophyll, for example: how it's "high in oxygen" and will "oxygenate your blood" - but chlorophyll will only make oxygen in the presence of light. It's dark in your intestines, and even if you stuck a searchlight up your bum to prove a point, you probably wouldn't absorb much oxygen in there, because you don't have gills in your gut. In fact, neither do fish. In fact, forgive me, but I don't think you really want oxygen up there, because methane fart gas mixed with oxygen is a potentially explosive combination.
Future generations will look back on this phenomenon with astonishment. Channel 4, let's not forget, branded her very strongly, from the start, as a "clinical nutritionist". She was Dr Gillian McKeith PhD, appearing on television every week, interpreting blood tests, and examining patients who had earlier had irrigation equipment stuck right up into their rectums. She was "Dr McKeith", "the diet doctor", giving diagnoses, talking knowledgeably about treatment, with complex scientific terminology, and all the authority her white coat and laboratory setting could muster.
So back to the science. She says DNA is an anti-ageing constituent: if you "do not have enough RNA/DNA", in fact, you "may ultimately age prematurely". Stress can deplete your DNA, but algae will increase it: and she reckons it's only present in growing cells. Is my semen growing? Is a virus growing? Is chicken liver pate growing? All of these contain plenty of DNA. She says that "each sprouting seed is packed with the nutritional energy needed to create a full-grown, healthy plant". Does a banana plant have the same amount of calories as a banana seed? The ridiculousness is endless.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)hatrack
(59,585 posts)Which will you choose?
Fucking
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)that refuses to sell to me.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)Same logic.
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)Initech
(100,072 posts)No one wants to be ground zero for a super spreader.