BPA! PLASTICS! BABY BOTTLES!

[Dreamstalker]

A relative of mine has a home-based business with a lot of stuff like that--ionizers, shower filters, etc. For awhile she was pushing colloidal silver on everyone...until I dug up the little fact that not only does it not really do anything useful, you can turn permanently gray if you ingest it long enough (I think there are other health problems involved as well, can't recall what they are).

[MercenaryMuffin]

I've seen pictures of the people who took silver...they literally turned grey and lost their hair. Some people have died from it, too.

But people still want this kind of crap because it's "natural". So is Arsenic, but it doesn't mean you should swallow a pill full of it!

[Andara Bledin]

I think a lot of you are confusing homeopathic remedies,which are real and do work for their intended purposes, and scams, which are just as real and far, far more common. Garlic, just as a random example, has proven and measurable effects.

Regardless, the woman in the OP is a completely and utter whackjob. Corn fiber in a metal bottle?!? A total whackaloon.

Oh, and on the water softener front, California has a bill going through the legislature right now to allow municipalities to forbid the use of water softeners due to their dumping excessive saline into the community water supply, hindering reclamation efforts and in some cases damaging the local water tables. I only know about it 'cause my old boss (who died of cancer 2 years ago) got a newsletter going off on how the government wanted to invade your homes and steal your water softeners. So, anyway, if you use a water softener, you should be aware of how it affects your local water table and water reclamation center.

^-.-^

[Rapscallion]

Oh, the BPA loonies. Hasn't really reached these shores in any real numbers, but we have any number of other idiots.

Raw food dieters ringing up and expecting you to know what temperature each batch of dried fruit you got from the commodity market was dried at.

Essenics who want a rare variety of grain that Jesus might have eaten, and also they want it raw (see above).

Salt is bad, m'kay? People who want diets completely free of salt and are astounded when you tell them that their blood is about seven percent salt by volume, oh and that they'll die without ingesting any.

Palm oil freaks who call up to shout at you about using palm oil to salve their consciences - not only do they not realise that ginger monkey murder is caused by their desire not to eat animal fats, then not to eat hydrogenated fats, but they also don't realise that they're not doing any good at all.

Bowel declarers - "What amount of psyllium husk should I take?" *enter here a tale of bowel symptoms that makes you wish you hadn't just eaten*

It's odd how there are so many things that are apparently instantly fatal, yet our life expectancy keeps going up.

Rapscallion