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4 XYZ FOOD

Prevents

Cancer

THE CLAIM: A study
reports that a fill-in-

the-blank superfood
fights the Big C.

THE TRUTH: No

single food will end
cancer. And these

studies tend to
“involve taking some

extract from a fruit or
vegetable and inject-

ing it into mice,” says
3 VAPING CANNABIS assistant professor
Saad Khan, M.D., an

at the University of
Texas Southwestern
Is the Ultimate

Natural Medicine Medical Center.
TRY THIS: Eat pro-

duce. Don’t smoke.
THE CLAIM: You can enjoy all the benefits of Exercise. It’s not

marijuana, like relaxation and pain relief, without sexy, but it works.
any of the toxins that result from burning it.

THE TRUTH: If the vaping deaths this past summer
haven’t made things clear, how about this: “Vaping SWISHING OIL

any compound isn’t healthy,” says Michelle 5 Can Help
Peace, Ph.D., an associate professor of forensic Your Teeth

science at Virginia Commonwealth University. And and Breath

while cannabis may be useful for certain medical
THE CLAIM: Using a table-
issues, vaping it puts you at risk for others. spoon of oil—most often coco-

TRY THIS: There are other ways to take cannabis, nut—like mouthwash for about
20 minutes pulls out toxins.
such as in edibles. Though if sleep, anxiety, and This whitens teeth, prevents
pain are your problems, figure out what’s causing cavities, and freshens breath.
THE TRUTH: That’s a long time
them and tackle that before turning to a drug. to do something that’s too
unconvincing for the Amer-
ican Dental Association to
recommend.
TRY THIS: Less than a third
of Americans floss daily, so
invest your time in that.

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