Appeal to nature, Cooking doesn’t exist in nature, so the raw diet must be healthiest., False cause, If you have gut problems, it’s definitely because of gluten., Anecdotal evidence, I started drinking celery juice and my skin cleared up — proof it works!, Bandwagon fallacy, Millions of people are doing intermittent fasting; they can’t all be wrong., Authority bias, This famous doctor on YouTube says sugar is poison, so it must be true., Slippery slope, If you eat one slice of pizza today, tomorrow you’ll be living off fast food and energy drinks., Black-and-white thinking, Either you care about your body and go vegan, or you don’t care at all., Cherry-picking, "You say all these studies show no effect, but how do you explain this study by Jibberjabber et al. that found massive improvement?", Post hoc reasoning, Ever since I switched to alkaline water, I haven’t been sick once., Appeal to emotion, Just imagine how sad your kids will be if you die young from carbs., False equivalence, "You say drinking a bottle of wine every day is unhealthy, yet you drink three cups of coffee a day", Hasty generalization, My cousin went keto and lost 10 kg, so clearly everyone should do it., Ad hominem, You can’t trust her diet advice — look how unhealthy she looks!, Genetic fallacy, That supplement comes from a big corporation, so it’s obviously toxic., No true Scotsman, No real nutritionist would ever recommend eating meat., Red herring, Sure, my diet plan costs a lot — but do you know how many toxins are in tap water?, Non sequitur, “Plants have energy, so eating more plants raises your vibration.”, Circular reasoning, “Of course detox cleanses work — they remove toxins, that’s why they’re called detoxes!”, Appeal to ignorance, No one has proven that the liver doesn’t store negative emotions, so it probably does., Base rate fallacy, Most people who get cancer eat bread, so bread must be dangerous..

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