Superfoods aren’t even the worst kind of snake oil. They’re ultimately not directly harmful.
When radium was discovered, scammers advertised it as a cure-all: if radiation kills healthy cells, a little radiation must surely kill only weak, diseased cells. Radium was put in everything. Face creams. Toothpaste. Butter. Underwear. Men were told to strap radium to their nuts to improve their stamina. Radithor was just vials of water with radium in it. It was an insane time.
I sell an acai berry enema that flushes the neutrons from your system. It’s been featured on Dr Oz.
as a brazilian it’s so intensely weird to see gringos turn açaí into this kind of mystical ultrahealthy superfood
Superfoods aren’t even the worst kind of snake oil. They’re ultimately not directly harmful.
When radium was discovered, scammers advertised it as a cure-all: if radiation kills healthy cells, a little radiation must surely kill only weak, diseased cells. Radium was put in everything. Face creams. Toothpaste. Butter. Underwear. Men were told to strap radium to their nuts to improve their stamina. Radithor was just vials of water with radium in it. It was an insane time.
As a white person, and an American, let me assure you that we can turn anything into a mystical ultra healthy superfood.
Reality be damned.
If it has vitamins that fast food doesn’t have, then technically in America it can be qualified as a superfood.
They are also currently pushing beef tallow as a ‘super food’