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

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I will continue to listen, and learn from Dr Berry as well as read and research on my own any of the subjects I find interesting. One more study from Harvard which shows that a study which followed over 120k men and women for 20 years found that yogurt consumption appeared to protect from weight gain due to the colonic bacterial from the yogurt. (It may also protect against heart disease and type 2 diabetes. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritio...

He claims that not only is red meat not bad for us, but neither are processed meats like bacon and sausage.Even though I was a little disappointed that Dr. Berry wasn't the narrator, it was still enjoyable. I'm not quite sure I'm going to get 100% on that bandwagon. Not everything in nature is healthy for you. What about the sun's radiation? What about the correlation of skin cancer and Australians--surely the Australians don't eat the unhealthiest diet in the world but they DO have high incidents of skin cancer. Facts doctors are taught to think about nutrition and other preventative health measures and how they should be thinking

I was familiar with Ken Barry's YouTube videos before listening to this book. He is an important member of the vanguard of doctors, specialists, scientists, researchers and even investigative journalists who are smart enough to be able to see the inconsistencies in the science that is currently accepted without question by many members of the medical profession, and who are not afraid to call it out, and have the communication skills to convey that to ordinary folk.In this book, Dr. Berry will enlighten you about nutrition and life choices, their role in your health, and how to begin an educated conversation with your doctor about finding the right path for you. This book is a survival kit on your journey through the confusing, and often misleading, world of conventional medicine and includes such topics as While I don’t have a study to repudiate the claim that Grains are more fattening- I will use simple logic on Dr. Berry’s argument which is “If meat was more fattening than grains, farmers would use it to fatten up their cows instead of corn.” This one is just silly... Another point the author makes is just because whole grains may not be as bad for us as processed grains, that doesn't mean that they are good for us. And he is right, just because something isn't bad for us, doesn't mean it is good for us and certainly doesn't mean there isn't something better for us. But when discussing diet, we need to look at the overall content of the diet, the nutrient density of the foods, and the variety, balance, palatability, and sustainability of a diet. Just because we've only been eating grains for the past 10,000 years, doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't eat them. And just because some people don't tolerate gluten, doesn't mean that everyone needs to avoid it. The Lie Regarding Fiber: Fiber is good for you, and you should try to get as much fiber in your diet as possible. Honestly, in one sense he's right. The USDA dietary guidelines are the culmination of input from scientists around the world that ultimately gets watered down by special interest groups like the Dairy Council and the Pharmaceutical Industry, etc. 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. So is it any surprise that the guidelines don't necessarily represent the best science we have?

After the third red light came on, I decided that my time is too precious to read further and only looked at some topics. The author blames as responsible for lies Big-pharma, Big-governement, Big-dairy, but somehow forgets about Big-meet, Big-fat and... what about Big-authors-writing-pseudo-health-books - he is one of them. Because this is big industry too and has a serious influence and guilt for the current boom of pseudoscience and total ignorance. 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. my link text I have a client right now who fits the hypothyroidism profile. She is overweight and can not lose weight despite following a healthy diet. Her blood tests are normal but on the outer ranges with a high TSH and a low T4. She also has mildly elevated fasting blood sugar at 100. She also complains of feeling tired all the time...and she's in her 40s. I suspect that her thyroid is petering out...or that she has Hashimotos. Of course, because her labs are technically normal her doctor says she is fine. Which would not be so bad, if her doctor were doing additional testing to determine the cause of her symptoms. This is a very straightforward little book, focused on exploding common and dangerous medical myths. And there are a lot of them.

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Eat a piece of bread or oatmeal and test your blood glucose 2 hours later. Your glucose spike will make you second guess what you have thought was optimal nutrition. I'm a little more cautions when he begins to claim HRT is 100% fine for women in menopause. There's aren't good studies that show HRT is any more of a link to breast cancer and heart disease. One has to take into account sugar and cigarettes. It depends upon the type of hormones used--were they organically the same as human hormones--then they're safe, after all women had them coursing through their bodies for decades prior to menopause.