Posted on 10/03/2012 11:37:35 AM PDT by EveningStar
Wait, wait -- are you saying there's actually a study out there suggesting that BACON IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!?????
Yet more proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. (P.S. -- I'm going to run with this now that I read it somewhere on the internet. Please don't correct my post or suggest that my conclusions are wild and unsupported. Bacon is a health food.)
What I get all the time are people telling me about some herb or whatever that will help me lose weight. Usually, these recommendations originate from Dr. Oz. He's on tv during the day. Now, Dr. Oz received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins and is a cardiac surgeon by profession, but he hawks zillions of products with claims that they cure everything. Most of his products are quackery. I'm reasonably sure he's well paid to promote this stuff of maybe he has some financial interest in the products. Whatever...but even if these products are harmless, I'd go broke if I bought them all. But there are fans of his who would jump off a cliff if he told them to.
I prefer to trust in my own cardiologist and in information from reputable sources such as Cleveland Clinic Nothing wrong with being old fashioned. I've followed my “old fashioned” doctor's advice and he hasn't failed me yet.
LOL! Yes, it smells wonderful.
The worst stuff I ever tried on my hair was mayonnaise, way back in the 80s when I was a teenager. Oh, my. I had to wash my hair a dozen times to get it out, and then clean the gunky grease out of the shower. So gross!
Throw conventional wisdom into the trash (along with vegetable oil, all soy products, and processed foods) and you will realize that, yes, God does love us.
Or at least you. Bacon and I don’t get along so well. Fortunately, in a sign that God provides for all, albeit in different ways, I prefer beef bacon anyway, so all is good.
” What studies have been done are flawed or suspicious since many of the studies were done by or on behalf of manufacturers”
You mean like the Statin drugs? :)
In Jamaica, we toss the coconut in the air, like a tennis ball, and then we chop the top off with the machete, while the youngest child catches the coconut before it hits the ground. It’s a sight to see.
Statins were studied by independent, reputable researchers. My information is that such studies on coconut oil have not been completed.
YOUR doctor may be behind the times: surprisingly, there is little evidence of a connection between cholesterol and heart disease, as a Google search will amply reveal. Here's a summary from one of numerous sites that discuss this issue:
“'The diet-heart idea – the notion that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease – is the greatest scientific deception of our times … The public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the century,' states George V. Mann, ScD, MD, the co-director of the well-known Framingham Heart Study. In the study more than 240 risk factors for heart disease were uncovered.
"The fact that statins, brand names Crestor, Lescol, Lipitor, Mevacor, Pravachol, Vytorin, and Zocor, are not the heart disease preventing wonder drugs that drug companies want physicians and the public to believe is not the worst of it. Both men and women with the lowest cholesterol levels died earlier of all causes, including cardiovascular events.
"The death rate was 5 times higher for elderly women with very low cholesterol in a French study reported in the medical journal Lancet.
"A 15-year study of several European countries included 149,000 men and women and found low cholesterol was significantly associated with increased all- cause deaths.
"A University of Hawaii study conducted over 20 years and involved 3,500 Japanese-American men found men with the lowest cholesterol levels died at younger ages of all causes. Lead researcher of the Hawaiin study, Dr. Irwin Schatz, warns, 'Prudence dictates that we be less aggressive in lowering cholesterol in the elderly.' The research findings also state: 'Our data accords with previous findings of increased mortality in elderly people with low serum cholesterol, and show that long-term persistence of low cholesterol concentration actually increases risk of death. Thus, the earlier that patients start to have lower cholesterol concentrations, the greater the risk of death.'”
http://diaryofalegaldrugdealer.com/the-great-cholesterol-myth/
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