lundi 8 juin 2020

Beware of NUTRITION scams on the Social Media


It usually begins with a man and occasionally a woman, well dressed and well kempt, wearing surgical scrubs or a white coat with something like. DR…. embroidered on to it.
The first clue it is false in that they have a stethoscope which costs 5 dollars on ebay or has only one diaphragm and not the usual two.
The second clue, they always refer themselves as, I am Dr.. so and so.
Stop the video right there, and check them on google and to see what are their qualifications
Doctor of Chiropractic
Doctor of Oriental Medicine
Doctor of Naturopathy
Or rarely a MD, like a Dr Rodriguez, graduate of U of Miami, has a practice in Beverly Hills but NO PATIENTS..
You do not see real doctors flogging supplements or attach “knowledge” to credit card requests. Can you imagine Anthony Fauci selling Anti Allergy supplements? After all he is the Director for the past few decades of National Institute of Allergy?
Or the CNN correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta who is of Indian origin selling Turmeric powder or Curry powder saying they build up your Immune system?
Another clue the charlatan disguise is that, they say: before I talk to you about the miracle drug that you cannot live without, they would either
Tell you their personal story of years of suffering from gastric petulance, pun intended or paint a infernal pictures of destroyed knee joints and burned out sports enthusiasts and then they would show their maternal aunt who at 97 just finished her third marathon for the year!  Yes, you guessed it, she is on that miracle pill.
Why is that we condemn Pharmaceutical companies and do not condemn these pill peddlers whose Neuriva etc sells folic acid for 100 times inflated prices? Successful peddlers who buy 3.6 million-dollar homes move from you tube to main line TV advertising alongside the Pharamaceutical companies.
Covid 19 has been a great boon for these troubadours of turmeric powder and such. Every one wants to improve their immunity.
How to improve your IMMUNITY? The charlatans have on their side the eagerness of the people to correct the situation with a pill rather than make substantial lifestyle changes.
Just look at the mortality from the current pandemic.
There is one risk factor which is not correctable, your age (unless you lie about it to the virus?0
The other risk factors are
OBESITY
DIABETES
HYPERTENSION
HEART DISEASE
All four things have things in common which are modifiable
ALL ARE RELATED TO DECREASED IMMUNE STATUS
With the fantastic array of medications available to us, a major proportion of the people are
OBESE HYPERTENSIVE DIABETIC and have Cardiovascular dysfunction  
Control of any of these four things would improve your immunity.
Do you want to improve your Immunity?
Find yourself a Dietician
Not a Chiropractor, Not a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Not a Naturopath
And begin to eat FOOD
And you would soon find how wrong has your eating habits and contents have been ..
The distribution of women classified as healthy, prevalent diseased, incident diseased, disabled, and died was 19%, 15%, 23%, 18%, and 25%, respectively. Compared to normal-weight women, underweight and obese women were more likely to die before age 85 years. Overweight and obese women had higher risks of incident disease and mobility disability. Disability risks were striking. Relative to normal-weight women, adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) of mobility disability was 1.6 (1.5–1.8) for overweight women and 3.2 (2.9–3.6), 6.6 (5.4–8.1), and 6.7 (4.8–9.2), for class I, II, and III obesity, respectively. Waist circumference >88 centimeters was also associated with higher risk of earlier death, incident disease, and mobility disability.

Obesity and Survival to Age 85 Years without Major Disease or Disability in Older Women. JAMA 2014

You live longer if you are not Overweight. No amount of Turmeric, CoQ-10, Pro-biotic is going to help you..

90 per cent of the people who have Type 2 Diabetes are overweight or Obese 
There is a relationship between Overweight and Hypertension and Heart Disease , in fact you can say these are all interconnected....to be corrected by your LIFESTYLE.

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