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Elsewhere in the world, prunes occupy the head of the table. Here in America, theyre often the butt of jokes. The shiny, sweet dried fruits are both exploited and ridiculed for their laxative properties. But do they really make you poop?
Conventional wisdom and scores of older folks insist that eating prunes will hasten the excretory process. Meanwhile, the European Union says they wont. In a 2010 ruling, the European Food Safety Authority decreed that it was dishonest to sell prunes as laxativ…
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