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What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

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[–] seconded@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sugar

[–] weew@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not exactly secretly bad... It's just bad

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, the natural state of humans is ketosis. Glucose stinks and we don't need it!

[–] Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 week ago

This is not really a secret. The sugar industry lobbied so hard to have sugar included in everything and well, we're seeing the damage.

[–] JustVik@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think sugar by itself is not so bad. The fact it is in amost all types of prepared foods from the store is really bad. But I'm not a specialist.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ooh, excellent one.