I was thinking this week about all the people who need to see "scientific studies" before they are willing to believe anything. If they only realized how slanted, inaccurate and downright devious most studies are, they would probably be surprised.
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association "proves" that diet does not help prevent recurrance of cancer. When you actually read the study you see that the definition of a good diet that the subjects were on included a recommended 20% of calories from fat. The actual participants found that hard to do, so they averaged 27% of fat. It has been well proven in Alternative Medicine that people who have cancer are better off to stay at about 10% of calories from fat. Then it has also been well-proven in the past that fresh, raw, organic food can help heal the body. There were no recommendations about that. Basically the only difference between the two groups was that one group tried to eat more veggies and fruits and tried and failed to eat less fat.
What a stupid study! If you really want to prevent the return of cancer such half-hearted attempts at diet modification are bound not to work. You have to get serious about what you put in your mouth.
Another study recently said that vitamins C and E were not helpful for health. What baloney! It turns out that the study used synthetic versions of both antioxidants. They are just useless chemicals, of course they don’t help. They can make a study prove whatever they want by the way they set it up. Drug companies are very interested in making supplements look useless. They have millions to spend on setting up these bogus studies and then trumpeting them through the media to confuse people.
I think that once people get it that allopathic medicine is in league with the drug barons to strip us of our money and our health, then we can start to do our own research and find out what works for us.
I love testimonials. I love to read about people like me who had found something that works. I know there is the possibility that they are bogus or planted. I take that risk. But, since companies are so constrained now by the FDA in what they can claim for their products, sometimes you can only tell what they do from the testimonials.
I am looking into the vibration platforms to improve osteoporosis right now. I have heard so many different pros and cons. The studies shown on the sites do not seem to be conclusive at all. But someone I trust is selling the best of them so, when finances permit, I will just go ahead and try one out. They are very expensive so it was only the testimonials from women like myself that convinced me it was worth a try.
I myself give testimonials whenever I think a product is life-changing. And it’s a joy to read the emails I get about the results of my weight-vest.
So don’t believe the headlines, they are distorted to sell the news. Last week the news was full of how many over-70 year old women were enjoying healthy sex lives. I was surprised until I read the small print and it turns out that to be called sexually active you had to have had sex once in the past year. That’s pretty funny!
Blessings, Pam