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[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (19 children)

I often think about what the 2025 equivalent of this is. What are we doing today that we think is helping, but is actually taking us out?

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Around the late 90's anyone remember Olestra/Olean Chips?

Thankfully warning bells went off for me. Avoided my ass leaking.

I'm scared of something like that happening again.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

It had a lipid you can't digest instead of digestible fats and so your body simply passed it through. What that translates to is greasy shits and greasy farts

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