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Sorry and here's your shmoop too sure brought to you

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by healthy guns because the one brought by unhealthy guns

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it's just gross We'll check out the following passage and

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here we're skimming skimming new age fad Can you come

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help line kitchen oil blob of a john brown me

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anecdotal evidence to make it all right The main idea

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of this passage is that oil pulling is what And

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here the potential answers fun All right well let's hope

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we read the whole passage thoroughly otherwise pulling out a

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main idea It can be kind of tough joyce claims

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The author says oil pulling doesn't work but grafts six

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knocks this theory out of the water The author clearly

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says afterwards my mouth felt cleaner than usual and my

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teeth had that smooth just scrub feeling So according to

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the author oil pulling does work at least a little

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bit However she's not advising that we throw out our

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toothbrush and dental floss is george c seems to think

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the author stresses that oil pulling is an alternative medicine

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and has no replacement for real doctors and dennis medical

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professionals everywhere just breathed a sigh of relief you know

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choice He gets two thumbs down Oil pulling is not

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a dangerous fat among teenagers For one thing fads don't

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last for thousands of years For another thing oil pulling

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isn't popular just among teenagers People of all ages air

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jumping on the oil pulling train to do it gets

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a little slick though so they better watch out All

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right Looks like he is the best answer the author's

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main goal is to fill us in on a practice

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that's existed for thousands of years That has become popular

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again Somewhere out there is an ancient civilization of hipsters

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complaining that they liked oil pulling before it was cool

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