Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

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The findings - Among US adults, higher consumption of dietary cholesterol or eggs was significantly associated with higher risk of incident CVD and all-cause mortality in a dose-response manner- aka the more cholesterol you eat, the more likely you will have Cardiovascular disease and die. I'm not sure the medical community ever agreed that all calories are equal, though I think that many people (doctors also being people) ultimately developed that impression. A few of the chapters tell you repeatedly what doesn’t cause a condition, but not what does actually cause it. Her story is largely a personal one, focusing on her mother's cancer journey and how following a Keto diet helped her to get through that.

e. processed foods like hot dogs and bacon), but then in the next chapter goes on to connect the same processed foods to other problems in one throwaway sentence. This is a fantastic book that teaches how the medical paradigm refuses to change their position on health information that is completely backwards, and unhealthy, despite the newest studies and data proving what they are teaching is wrong. Because these are not made by big Pharma, they are often misunderstood and their health benefits are unknown by most doctors.Since I was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia at age 20, my doctors, constantly picked on my weight. Being a doctor himself and looking at this own need for weight loss, he was able to "wake up" and see that the advice he had been dispensing regarding weight loss to patients was ineffective. Nutrition and diet and extremely important, but most of what Ive learned in the past years has been on my own.

because not only does the government have a responsibility to protect the interests of individual citizens, it also has the responsibility to protect and promote American industry.This sounds basic, but it’s Ken Berry’s statements of what really is actually healthy that is the opposite of what your doc has probably told you. In spite of it, there were some segments in the book which are pure gold, which is why I gave it two stars instead of one. I ended up going to a specialist, an endocrinologist, who actually correlated my symptoms with my blood work and prescribed treatment. So, I might be willing to hear him out on red meat as I don't think that red is innately bad, though it's also not innately good. Nowhere does he say that he is a practicing Keto practitioner, which I felt made him as bad as the medical practitioners that he was criticizing.

It's a business, designed to make money, and physicians do not have a financial interest in having patients actually care for themselves and get well on their own. I lived through the opioid disaster when we were made to feel guilty for "undertreating " pain and told addiction would not be a problem- just one example of how they mislead the public and physicians. My takeaways: fat, butter, salt and cholesterol are good, sugar and grains are bad, no other species on the planet drinks the milk of another species, and doctors can be just as bad as other people at repeating "common knowledge" that turns out to be dead wrong. Seriously, you want me to believe that processed meats like lunch meat, bologna, sausage, spam for God's sake are not only not bad for me but good for me.His logic and his arguments are often as flawed if not more flawed than the ones he's supposedly debunking. He discusses how doctors are human, often overworked, do what's easy like the rest of us and make mistakes.