Are You Giving Your Kids a Heroine?

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"We just need to be extremely careful with this kind of regulation and make sure that it's actually doing what is in the spirit of the law, rather than just the letter of the law," Yv dreamed. "I don't want to learn about like, yellow five and like blue forty two, or whatever they are, and like find out whether they're poisons or not."

The world of dieting and wellness is full of so-called snake oil salesmen—but what IS snake oil? This week, we take a wild ride through the history of health scams and discover a startling twist about an everyday idiom. Along the way, Aubrey delivers fun facts about sanitation from memory and Mike roasts the state where most of his family lives.

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