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> First, people die because they choose a truly worthless treatment that can never work, over bad ones that at least had a snowball's chance.

Like Steve Jobs.

Fruit juice kills people.



clarification: fruit juice is basically pure fructose which cancer loves and your organs can't handle.

actual fruit has fiber and you're unlikely to eat enough to cause harm.


woosh

Steve Jobs got into alternative medicine to treat his pancreatic cancer, including trying a fruitarian diet. Since he had a rare form that isn’t as fatal as pancreatic cancer usually is, there’s a chance he could have survived significantly longer if he had instead treated it with traditional, non-experimental medicine.




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