What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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Keto diets demonstrably work for some people.

Im 90% sure the case with keto is the same as with ozempic. It is a fairly specilized diet that by coincidence works fairly well for losing weight. From the little i read its apparently for the same reason osempic works. It leads to loss of apetite.

Yeah and I think those diets have reasonable limited appeal, but they're clearly not snake oil. They demonstrably do something