# Yet another bimbo "wellness" blogger found to be a fraud **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331 "2015-03-18T22:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/261 "2016-05-06T14:51:12Z")
> [@lel](#): > > How about an interview with 60 Minutes where you obfuscate everything, oh, how old are you again? > > [Disgraced Health Blogger Belle Gibson Gave An Interview And It Was Awkward As Hell](http://www.buzzfeed.com/robstott/belle-gibson-interview#.mjjoEYZXL) [And now she’s getting sued.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/06/australian-blogger-who-claimed-natural-remedies-cured-her-cancer/) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/262 "2016-05-07T22:20:24Z")
what gets me is since GNC and their cronies basically killed the pure food and drug act making it where all they have to do is say "our snake oil dosent really treat anything at all and isn’t intended to " any quack can use the same disclaimer on a diet or potion and powder on a infomercial and make millions … ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/263 "2016-05-08T05:56:01Z")
I am enjoying the schadenfreude. Not long ago she had told a newspaper that she would not face any legal consequences. And next the Food Babe, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/264 "2016-05-09T13:57:47Z")
“Opium cures everything, but there’s no cure for opium.” – Someone smart ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/265 "2016-05-09T14:13:13Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > toxins in vaccines. Among these horrific chemicals, she singled out amino acids, dextrose and mineral salts. Dextrose? Vaccines cause diabetes! (Dextrose = glucose. Maltodextrine = partially hydrolyzed starch; chemically, a mixture of glucose and starch whose chains are shorter than before the hydrolyzation. Table sugar = two glucoses linked together) ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/266 "2016-05-09T20:00:57Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Dextrose? Vaccines cause diabetes! > > (Dextrose = glucose. Maltodextrine = partially hydrolyzed starch; chemically, a mixture of glucose and starch whose chains are shorter than before the hydrolyzation. Table sugar = two glucoses linked together) Nope, table sugar is a glucose and a fructose linked together. Several glucose-glucose disaccarids exist, such as maltose. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/267 "2016-05-11T12:19:15Z")
Yeah, I had a brainfart there. Scary how many sites are that explain the differences between dextrose and glucose or fructose and levulose ☹ (each pair is the same, the “dextrose” and “levulose” names come from how their crystals rotate light). “The sugar in fruit isn’t fructose, it’s actually levulose!!!” Ugh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331.md?page=13)