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Not sold, yet? DON'T BE!

In our efforts to get more healthy - and stay healthy - we look to many avenues, to make this very worthwhile endeavor a bit easier.  But while we're doing this, marketers are taking to the air waves, to get us to "buy into" their products. . . literally.  Not sold on something, yet?  Well, don't be. As I write this, some sales-y MD is droning on, about a popular diet (I won't mention which one, because it's not WHICH diet but HOW it's being "sold") and which foods to include.  As he natters on, I'm hearing the KA-CHING of the cash register (You know, they really used to make that sound) at the supermarket and health food stores, as people ring up their purchases of avocado oil, coconut oil, grass-fed bison and bone broth products.  In the little time it's taken for me to write the two paragraphs so far, it's cost viewers potential hundreds of dollars, if they want to buy into this trendy diet. Before we think of trendy diets, let...