# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/121 "2015-03-22T20:24:31Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > “The ear of the rear.” > > “I’ll have a skinny, half-caff Venti, **half-temp**. To go.” And you grab a paper funnel as you leave, like the kind you can get from an auto shop for your oil. “Oral or aural?” ---
**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:** [March 23, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/122 "2015-03-23T14:33:06Z")
Well, it’s not just “pretty women” bloggers as I thought: > [@](#): > > [Paleo isn't a fad diet, it's an ideology that selectively denies the modern world | Jason Wilson | The Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/16/paleo-isnt-a-fad-diet-its-an-ideology) > Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans planned to publish a “paleo diet” cookbook for children, Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way, that encouraged parents to feed infants with a baby formula concoction made from bone broth. After healthcare professionals noted the recipe contained 10 times the safe amount of vitamin A for babies, putting kids at risk of death, the book was last week put on hold. > > Then, on Saturday, Evans appeared at Melbourne Town Hall to sell the paleo diet. He reportedly told the crowd that he’s “not going to be silenced” and encouraged them to try his broth anyway. Pan Macmillan on Monday reportedly dropped the book, but Evans will go ahead and self-publish it digitally. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/123 "2015-03-23T14:35:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Yep. > > Also liver, buttermilk, and I’m beginning to lean toward quinoa. 😛 I hate quinoa. I refuse to even mention it in my blog. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/124 "2015-03-23T15:03:46Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > I hate quinoa. I refuse to even mention it in my blog. :mad: Get thee behind me seitan! ---
**Author:** ![prettydorky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/125 "2015-03-23T15:09:38Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > I’d rather not. The SDMB is my secret world where I can complain about terrible people in airplanes, and ask stupid questions about dentistry. Fair enough! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/126 "2015-03-23T15:20:03Z")
How’d a bone-broth based baby food wind up with such high vitamin A levels? I understand the how and why of vitamin A toxicity – I’m just missing how the PaleoGerber ( 😃 ) wound up presenting a risk. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/127 "2015-03-23T15:29:47Z")
My knowledge of Food Babe is only through her arch nemesis, the Science Babe (who I found through IFL Science on Facebook). > **[SciBabe](https://scibabe.com/)** > > Come for the science, stay for the dirty jokes. Science Babe makes it a hobby to debunk whatever the Food babe is posting. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/128 "2015-03-23T15:30:32Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > People aren’t even consistent on what they are skeptical about. They’ll believe the climate change is 100% real and man-made like good little science-lovers, but they’ll roll their eyes when health-related environmental concerns (like pesticides and phthalates) are mentioned in a conversation. I think some people wait for a critical mass of cool kids (including the nerdy cool kids like Neil De Grasse Tyson) to jump on the bandwagon before they decide to hop on too. But don’t expect them to admit this out loud. In all fairness, when it comes to topics/questions that most people don’t the have eductation to solve on their own, this isn’t a terrible strategy. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/129 "2015-03-23T16:34:15Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > I hate quinoa. I refuse to even mention it in my blog. :mad: I also hate quinoa and kale and refuse to consider them as anything but animal fodder. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/130 "2015-03-23T16:43:23Z")
I don’t care whether or not quinoa exists, but kale is a fine green and not deserving of the insults being hurled at it here. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/131 "2015-03-23T16:45:03Z")
Kale tastes like it’s made of bug spray.(Jim Gaffigan) ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/132 "2015-03-23T17:05:24Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I distinctly remember the first time I heard the term “Wellness”. Better than the term “healthfulness.” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/133 "2015-03-23T17:50:31Z")
People have it all wrong, we should be focusing on Wellfullness. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/134 "2015-03-23T20:10:30Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I don’t care whether or not quinoa exists, but kale is a fine green and not deserving of the insults being hurled at it here. Swiss chard has more of everything that’s useful in kale, and it doesn’t make your house smell like a frat house toilet when you saute it. Q.E.D. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/135 "2015-03-23T20:20:14Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > [You might want to rethink that stereotype.](http://stateofobesity.org/disparities/) ??? That report only counts black, latinos, and whites? Nobody else? ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/136 "2015-03-23T23:13:33Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > ??? That report only counts black, latinos, and whites? Nobody else? Well, it’s not like there’s another group from…maybe farther east? Or west, depending on which way you’re looking. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/137 "2015-03-24T04:41:32Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I don’t care whether or not quinoa exists, but kale is a fine green and not deserving of the insults being hurled at it here. It’s garnish. It’s the stuff restaurants use to cover the ice on the salad bar. It’s not food. For people, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/138 "2015-03-24T06:00:33Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > What the hell ever happened to journalism? Journalism died at the Bush/Dukakis debate where CNN anchor Bernard Shaw asked Dukakis what about if his wife (Kitty) was raped. Dropped dead before it hit the floor. Journalism had been on life support since Barbara Walters began asking people what kind of tree they would like to be, but this was the nail in the coffin. Since that time Journalism has been going for the surprise cheap shot that shocks the audience into realizing just how fucking stupid news people and their subjects are. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/139 "2015-03-24T07:30:14Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > I don’t know any female nutrition skeptics. They’re an extremely rare breed. [Science Babe](http://scibabe.com). She cracked and started blogging because Food Babe made her so mad she could spit, in fact. Bonus points for being gluten free because she is genuinely, clinical-signs-and-lab-test diagnosed with celiac disease, among other things. She is fond of dirty jokes and says “fuck” a lot, and once made her point about the efficacy of homeopathy by getting tipsy off a bottle of homeopathic dog “medication”. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/140 "2015-03-24T10:47:19Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I don’t care whether or not quinoa exists, but kale is a fine green and not deserving of the insults being hurled at it here. Chard is better in every way. And it’s prettier, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331.md?page=8)