This is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

You may have heard about the latest food once thought healthy now turned lethal.

Cale might not be as good for you as you think.

The vegetable is known to absorb heavy metals like arsenic and thallium.

People who are eating large amounts of it are getting sick.

Fatigue, skin and hair

issues, neurological disorders, foggy thinking, digestive problems, and gluten intolerance.

Gluten intolerance? Oh no. For a few weeks, the IT leaf might as well have been hemlock in

leathery clothing. This particular panic courtesy of a stunningly

unsubstantiated article in craftsmanship magazine. Now, Kale's momentary fall from grace is just the

latest link in a perpetual feedback loop of specious health and diet stories proclaiming

that a favorite food stuff, red wine for instance,

will either kill you.

Wine or any alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer.

Or save you.

Ladies, drink your red wine.

It could prevent breast cancer.

Or kill you.

I probably told you hundreds of times that red wine is good for your heart,

but recent news is raising questions. Or save you. It'll help you with good cholesterol. It lowers

blood pressure, lowers stress, and just it has many, many health benefits. And so for the remainder

of this segment, we're diving into the dodgy world of health and diet news,

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