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What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

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[–] StalinistApologist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Beer

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

That's been around for at least a couple millennia, though; you'd think we'd know by now, right?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

I mean frequent consumption is pretty well documented to be bad for your liver, and they don't call it a beer belly for nothing. Like any kind of indulgence, moderation is key

Also worth noting beer historically was very very light on alcohol, so it was effectively a method of making water safe to drink rather than about having fun getting drunk