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We're not sure if there are any benefits to oil pulling, but we do  know there are benefits to answering this shmoopy CAHSEE question. Read the passage and see if you can pick the correct answer. 

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Sorry And here's your shmoop to use your brought to

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you by new age medicine we can wait till old

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age medicine comes back in style Leeches anyone ages Those

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things suck and what they did like that was actually

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common practice They'd stick a leech on you suck out

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the poisons In theory all it did was suck out

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your blood probably give you germs and then you die

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and your spirit would do not cool Okay thank goodness

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for modern medicine This passage provides the least information on

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which topic related toe oil pulling and hear the potential

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answer Ah oil pulling We like to get our swish

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on while getting acupuncture in an aromatherapy room that's covered

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in healing crystals But maybe that's just dust Okay back

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to the question at hand The correct answer is going

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to be the one on which the author spends the

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least amount of time This means we can nix choice

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d for sure The whole first paragraph is about why

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people like oil pulling increased energy increased gum health well

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what's not to love besides an increased amount of chunky

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oil in your mouth Well we'll also cross be off

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the list The other tells us that back in the

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day people used whatever oil was readily available in their

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neck of the woods Which explains why people who live

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near crude oil fields always had black teeth but we

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can eliminate choice cia's Well while the author doesn't give

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us a laundry list of evidence confirming the health benefits

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of oil pulling she does confirm that no hard evidence

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exists According to the author all we have is anecdotal

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stories about the joys of oil pulling The correct answer

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is a the author does describe the results of her

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personal about with oil pulling but she never says what

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it feels like while she's doing it She skips right

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from putting the oil in her mouth to spitting it

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in a cup But that's already T m i ne 00:01:52.192 --> [endTime] if you ask us

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