Introduction: Meaningful “health care reform” starts at home.
Health information is readily available on the internet and in book stores. But it ranges from great, through harmless but worthless, to down right dangerous.
The princples of chemistry, biology, physics, as should be taught in public schools, can help us decide what is medical science and what is quackery.
Some erroneous advice has come from scientists talking outside their fields, such as Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, PhD, preaching about vitamin C, but “peer review” showed the truth. Vitamin pill peddlers wanted money, not truth, and gladly quoted him.
The major killers in our “modern” society are tobacco, followed by obesity and too little exercise. We clammor for “health care reform”, yet ignore this basic reform of our lifestyles through self-help responsibility
Most common chronic diseases really can be made less likely to happen (“prevention”), treated, or even reversed by sound nutrition and exercise. But we spend billions of dollars per year on pharmacueticals and herbal concoctions which often are not as helpful.
Some great medicines and treatments have been developed from study of traditional herbal tonics and foods. However, herbal preparations are totally unregulated, unless obviously causing illness or death.
Anyone can stir up an herbal pill and make miraculous claims to sell it. In fact, numerous web sites offer fake reviews to make affiliate sales of other peoples products.
Articles by “Dr.Don” (physicist) are listed alphabetically at right. Interesting web sites and book titles can be found in them, along with my own observations from experiments on myself.
Note that Nathan Pritikin was a non degreed free-lance inventor who turned medical beliefs about heart disease upside down with experiments on his own body. He used nutrition and exercise, so statins are not needed.
Acai berry is used to feed livestock in South America. It does not cause weight loss in cattle, so why should it do so in humans? see “Acai Berry and Weight Loss.”
Some issues discussed in the listed articles are:
* “Correlation is not causality” means that false conclusions can be drawn about health and treatments. See “Soy and Green Tea Weight Loss.”
* Good advice can come from non physicians, and quackery can be sold by physicians. See “Medical Experts, or Not?” for examples.
Think and be healthy.
by Dr. Don Miller
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