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Just go to Whole Foods and you'll see this aren't going to stop soon.

egeozcan 10y ago
I've never been to a Whole Foods store so perhaps the joke is lost on me but isn't the whole point of eating whole foods, escaping the potential yet unknown "magic" combinations that occur with food processing?
- ojiikun 10y ago
  here at the downtown WF in Seattle, virtually every check out aisle has at least a few vials of homeopathic garbage. they also go quite hard in the pseudo science marketing against GMOs, gluten, and coconut / palm ingredients. apart from selling unreasonably priced produce of no particular merit, they are just another grocery store selling a particular brand of chemical puritanism and superstition.
- polpo 10y ago
  About 1/4 of the floor space of a typical Whole Foods is taken up by homeopathy and other quack remedies.
  - antidaily 10y ago
    1/8
  - ChristianBundy 10y ago
    I've only ever been to the ones in Portland, Oregon, but I haven't seen any of the quack remedies outside of the homeopathy and nutrition aisle (the same way that Fred Meyer does it). I'd be more inclined to call it 5% of the floor space at most, but maybe there are differences between stores.
  - usaphp 10y ago
    Not really. Every Whole Foods I shopped at only had a small homeopathy section along with shampoos and beauty products, most of the stuff they sell is regular food just organic.
  - macandcheese 10y ago
    I think it's a bit disingenuous to conflate all homeopathic remedies with "quack" science. Have you ever used Arnica gel on a bruise? Oscillococcinum for a flu? Extremely effective naturally derived products.
    - coldpie 10y ago
      Homeopathic refers to a specific set of products, where the "active ingredient" is diluted to the point where it is no longer present. It is literally water. There are other types of non-standard remedies, which you might be talking about. But Homeopathic, specifically, is a synonym for water with fancy labeling.
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    - khazhou 10y ago
      Well, the concept is ludicrous, and it's been refuted by studies. So, quack quack?
    - gambiting 10y ago
      Oscillococcinum is just sugar. And yes, I've been fed many Oscillococcinum pills as a kid because my mum was into homeopathy - did my flu go away? You bet it did! But there's zero evidence that it happened because of Oscillococcinum - it would have passed away naturally without me taking sugar pills few times a day.
      - option_greek 10y ago
        I really don't want to believe it. It doesn't make any sense. But I did see some relatives get well from some issues (none are serious) going this so called 'homeopathic' route after trying out regular doctors. Are some of the regular medicines so ineffective that a placebo is trouncing them ? That probably requires some study.
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- NikolaeVarius 10y ago
  And replace it with the unknown magic of how the same food products cost 5x as much.
- mattnewton 10y ago
  They typically have an herbal remedy section that ranges from peppermint menthol for sore throats to some truely outlandish cures. I think it's those "natural medicines" on the reishi-mushrooms-align-chakras-boosting-immune-system side of things gp is referring to.

I've never been to a Whole Foods store so perhaps the joke is lost on me but isn't the whole point of eating whole foods, escaping the potential yet unknown "magic" combinations that occur with food processing?

ojiikun 10y ago
here at the downtown WF in Seattle, virtually every check out aisle has at least a few vials of homeopathic garbage. they also go quite hard in the pseudo science marketing against GMOs, gluten, and coconut / palm ingredients. apart from selling unreasonably priced produce of no particular merit, they are just another grocery store selling a particular brand of chemical puritanism and superstition.
polpo 10y ago
About 1/4 of the floor space of a typical Whole Foods is taken up by homeopathy and other quack remedies.
- antidaily 10y ago
  1/8
- ChristianBundy 10y ago
  I've only ever been to the ones in Portland, Oregon, but I haven't seen any of the quack remedies outside of the homeopathy and nutrition aisle (the same way that Fred Meyer does it). I'd be more inclined to call it 5% of the floor space at most, but maybe there are differences between stores.
- usaphp 10y ago
  Not really. Every Whole Foods I shopped at only had a small homeopathy section along with shampoos and beauty products, most of the stuff they sell is regular food just organic.
- macandcheese 10y ago
  I think it's a bit disingenuous to conflate all homeopathic remedies with "quack" science. Have you ever used Arnica gel on a bruise? Oscillococcinum for a flu? Extremely effective naturally derived products.
  - coldpie 10y ago
    Homeopathic refers to a specific set of products, where the "active ingredient" is diluted to the point where it is no longer present. It is literally water. There are other types of non-standard remedies, which you might be talking about. But Homeopathic, specifically, is a synonym for water with fancy labeling.
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  - khazhou 10y ago
    Well, the concept is ludicrous, and it's been refuted by studies. So, quack quack?
  - gambiting 10y ago
    Oscillococcinum is just sugar. And yes, I've been fed many Oscillococcinum pills as a kid because my mum was into homeopathy - did my flu go away? You bet it did! But there's zero evidence that it happened because of Oscillococcinum - it would have passed away naturally without me taking sugar pills few times a day.
    - option_greek 10y ago
      I really don't want to believe it. It doesn't make any sense. But I did see some relatives get well from some issues (none are serious) going this so called 'homeopathic' route after trying out regular doctors. Are some of the regular medicines so ineffective that a placebo is trouncing them ? That probably requires some study.
      - 10y ago
NikolaeVarius 10y ago
And replace it with the unknown magic of how the same food products cost 5x as much.
mattnewton 10y ago
They typically have an herbal remedy section that ranges from peppermint menthol for sore throats to some truely outlandish cures. I think it's those "natural medicines" on the reishi-mushrooms-align-chakras-boosting-immune-system side of things gp is referring to.