`Fat-burning` foods and other scientific-sounding nutritional trickery
(WorldNews Health)

Would you like to kick-start your metabolism and strengthen your immunity to diseases? Just eat fat-burning foods with immune-boosting ingredients, and drink alkaline water. Actually, that whole paragraph, and its very concept, is a lie. But it sounds promising -- and familiar -- doesn`t it? It`s common for marketers to exaggerate claims to entice us to buy products. And we believe much of what we read when it sounds scientific and plausible. This practice is brilliantly exposed in a video from McGill University`s Office for Science and Society (OSS) that went viral last week. Jonathan Jarry, science communicator at the OSS (and the person who made the video), says that flashy marketing...