Our inboxes have been filled to the brim with advice from people peddling vitamins, herbs, and diets—all claiming that the product that they were hawking would help supercharge the body’s defenses to ward off the coronavirus. Is there any truth to these pitches? Can certain foods—like elderberries, garlic, and zinc—really help strengthen your immune system? How about a good night’s sleep, or getting enough exercise? We take a hard look at these claims, with help from Timothy Caulfield, a law professor at the University of Alberta and the research director of its Health Law Institute. He studies how companies and brands use and misuse medical and scientific research, and he’s the host of the TV series A User's Guide to Cheating Death, in which he debunks pseudoscientific claims.
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58 – How to Grow Your Own Cocktail
57 - Bonus: Introducing The Mother Jones Podcast
56 – What the Rajneeshee Cult Was Cooking Up
55 – This Is the Best Kind of Milk
54 – Did Drinking Give Me Cancer?
53 – When Sexual Harassment Is on the Menu
52 – This Is Your Dinner on Weed
51 – You Thought You Knew Spam. You Knew Nothing.
50 – The Year's Best Movies Are Secretly About Food
49 – It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Get an Ethical Cup of Coffee
48 – This Science Will Make You Feel Better About What You Eat
47 – Not Just Granola: How Hippies Reinvented American Cuisine
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46 – Dinner and a Movie
45 – Restaurant Workers Say #MeToo
44 – When Dinner Gets Awkward
43 – Robin Sloan's Hilarious and Bizarre Food Novel
42 – After Napa’s Inferno, “We’re Still Standing”
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