Has anyone ever told you that eating meat will give you colon cancer? Where did that come from? Any idea? Some kind of study or other, right? When they told you that, did you go and find the study that made that claim and read it for yourself to verify the assertion or did you just take it on faith?
Of course you took it on faith. Who reads studies? Nobody does. Not even doctors who allow the studies to influence the way they treat their patients. Not even the reporters who are disseminating the findings of the study to the masses. Hell, it seems like the people who publish the studies in their own medical journals don't even read them. Sure, they may read the abstract, but that's the most time anybody wastes on a study. Nobody combs through the data offered up in the studies to support the assertions that the authors make.
Well, almost nobody. Here and there, a rebel arises, and someone actually looks in depth at a study that claims that coffee is a health food, or that coffee is the devil, or that wine is a health food, or that wine is the devil, or that chocolate is a health food, or that chocolate is the devil. You know you've heard each and every one of those assertions made by a study several times over the years. Most of us get fed up with the noise, and stop paying attention to them at all. Some poor schmucks try to keep up with every study and change their habits accordingly. Here and there, though, there's a person or two that has the education necessary to understand a study, and the motivation to look into them.
I've recently heard lectures made by several of these types of people, and the things they have said in those lectures made me rethink everything I thought I knew about nutrition and science in general. This lecture here is by Georgia Ede, and talks about the studies that have tried to tell us what is good for us, what is bad for us, and what we should eat to be healthy. She read the studies from front to back, and found that there was a lot less substance to them than anyone ever guessed.
It turns out that the people who write the studies know full well that no one ever reads them beyond just the abstract, so they can say whatever they want, no matter what the data might actually indicate. These people may actually have a hidden agenda behind their studies, and it may well be something that will infuriate you, like it did me, if you found out.
Please, listen to the lecture by Georgia Ede. It's worth the time. Think of it as a podcast. You don't have to watch it. Just listen. It might make a difference in your life going forward if you do.
There was a doctor named Gary Fettke from Tasmania in Australia. He found that eating low carb made a huge difference in people's health, and started recommending it to his patients, causing many to be able to get healthy, stop their medication, and regain their lives. So, how was he rewarded? The powers that be came down on him, censured him, forced him to stop talking about low carb to his patients. Why would that be? Check out this video in which his wife talks about the truth behind the story. It may infuriate you to find that some people want you to be living the precepts of their religion, whether you accepted it and got baptized in or not.
This talk here is a longer more in depth version of the same story as told by the doctor, Gary Fettke, himself. If you're interested and want to know more.
So, are you a Seventh-Day Adventist? Do you believe in the visions received by Ellen White? If not, then why are you eating her Garden of Eden diet? Especially when it is becoming more and more obvious by the day that it only promotes sickness rather than health? Low carb, not high carb is the way to be, folks. Don't let somebody else's religion dictate the way you eat any more than you would let it dictate who you can love, what you can wear, who you can be friends with or any of the other things religions often like to stick their noses into.
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