Food Myths
Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by Brad in Health and Medicine | Twitter: @bradhart |
I have long been an advocate for common sense when it comes to accepting myths of any kind, especially when it comes to medicine, nutrition and the government. I am not always talking about great big conspiracies for the sake of economic interests and campaign contributions, though there is an undeniable connection between the two. Today’s disgruntled health and medicine post is about when long held beliefs and assertions fly in the face of provable science.
I found a blog today, The Healthy Fellow that I wanted to point out. Though I often times dislike the health blog because the purveyors of such things are often trying to sell me on something, this one is pretty good. His latest article on Nutrition Myths Exposed was something I can relate too as a guy who has lost weight and lowered his cholesterol on a low carb diet. It was amazing the guy who ate a dozen eggs a day, sometimes omelets made with avocados could drop his weight from three hundred plus to two hundred and his total cholesterol to what was not only a safe level but what his doctor called excellent. Of course that same doctor even after I got a clean bill of health told me low carb diets don’t work, he is not my doctor anymore. So much for doctors being people of science, much less living in the real world with observable facts. Sometimes I think doctors are as dogmatically wrong headed as priests.
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