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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Keto diets demonstrably work for some people.

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Im 90% sure the case with keto is the same as with ozempic. It is a fairly specilized diet that by coincidence works fairly well for losing weight. From the little i read its apparently for the same reason osempic works. It leads to loss of apetite.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah and I think those diets have reasonable limited appeal, but they're clearly not snake oil. They demonstrably do something