Health Myths We No Longer Believe

"Responding to the health threat posed by Americans’ over-consumption of sodium, experts in the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) called today for sodium reduction strategies that are strong and effective—and that maximize the enjoyment people derive from food.

“There is now overwhelming evidence that we must treat sodium reduction as a critical public health priority, as we did when we discovered the harms of trans fats,” said Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, chairman of the department of nutrition, HSPH, and a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. “The food industry tackled the trans fat reduction challenge with remarkable speed. We invite their best creative minds to bring similar leadership to the equally urgent cause of sodium reduction.”

A 35 percent reduction in Americans’ average daily sodium intake could save billions of dollars annually on health costs—and save upwards of 90,000 lives—by lowering people’s blood pressure, and in turn, their risk of heart disease and stroke. - HarvardScience

Ironically, since 1911, the most dangerous and toxic thing in your kitchen has been salt. What makes salt even more harmful is iodization. Iodization is what leads to cellulite, blood vessle clogging, and more because... Continued: http://bioprin.posterous.com/tag/salt

"Scientists find no difference in suicide risk among different antidepressants" - Harvard.

Wait. Isn't that like saying, 'Doctors find no difference in AIDS risk among different underwear makers?'

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Women’s risk of developing breast cancer may increase as much as 20-fold if they were treated with chest radiation - Harvard

"Treatments such as radiation can damage healthy cells while destroying malignant cells, according to the National Cancer Institute, based in Bethesda, Md. In children, this can prevent bones, tissues, and organs from developing properly, leading to damage seen years later.

"The increased risk for breast cancer was seen as soon as eight years after the chest radiation was given and didn’t level off as the women grew older, the researchers said."

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Personally, having been raised in a dual cultural environment flying between Korea and LA, being poked by acupuncture needles and syringes, and having been slightly educated in both eastern and western medicine, I can tell you that most of the Eastern practicioners I've known worked more off of wishful thinking and superstition than repeatable science. But then again, I've met a few eastern masters who demonstrated (repeatedly) amazing results that no western hospital can deliver.

As stats would have it, if your ND or Naturopathic Doctor is about 32% effective, he has something in common with every single scientific researcher in the west. 32% is the rate of efficacy of the sugar-pill - a placebo that every scientist uses as a test control. Western medicine however, is highly consistent. If there is a disease that one doctor can't cure, no other doctor can either. The reverse is also true. This kind of consistency is comforting. While in the east, you're really not sure if you're getting treated by Elvis or by an Elvis impersonator.

Surprisingly, Harvard and Nasa are hopeful that maybe, just maybe, Elvis is still alive: "One author was impacted by the earth's EMF to such an extent in FL that it falsely convinced him that he was having a heart attack more severe than his nearly fatal one. Instead, it preceded an earthquake he then predicted six hours in advance...Physics and Naturopathic Universities could be appropriate partners for understanding, preventing or curing these." (source)

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don’t start gobbling down vitamin D supplements - NYTimes

The NYTimes.com Health Blog released yet another confusing blog post. I've personally stopped reading the NYTimes blog because everything I've read from it confuses me. The blog makes ignorant statements that make me feel relatively intelligent. But then, I second guess myself thinking, "I must be wrong - the editorial department can't be all that ignorant. Hence, my confusion sets in.

But this time, I read a NYTblog post because it was tweeted out by Harvard. http://twitter.com/HarvardResearch/statuses/9069274668

I'll quote and summarize the substance of the long post and you tell me If I'm a genius or an idiot. I simply can't tell.

Imagine a treatment that could build bones, strengthen the immune system and lower the risks of illnesses like diabetes, heart and kidney disease, high blood pressure and cancer.

Some research suggests that such a wonder treatment already exists. It’s vitamin D, a nutrient that the body makes from sunlight and that is also found in fish and fortified milk.

According to the lab company Quest Diagnostics, orders for vitamin D tests surged more than 50 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, up from the same quarter a year earlier. And in 2008, consumers bought $235 million worth of vitamin D supplements, up from $40 million in 2001, according to Nutrition Business Journal.

But don’t start gobbling down vitamin D supplements just yet. The excitement about their health potential is still far ahead of the science.

And since most of the data on vitamin D comes from observational research, it may be that high doses of the nutrient don’t really make people healthier, but that healthy people simply do the sorts of things that happen to raise vitamin D.

“People may have high vitamin D levels because they exercise a lot and are getting ultraviolet-light exposure from exercising outdoors,” Dr. Manson said. “Or they may have high vitamin D because they are health-conscious and take supplements. But they also have a healthy diet, don’t smoke and do a lot of the other things that keep you healthy.”

Vitamin D is found throughout the body and acts as a signaling mechanism to turn cells on and off. Right now, the recommended dose from food and supplements is about 400 international units a day for most people, but most experts agree that is probably too low. The Institute of Medicine is reviewing guidelines for vitamin D and is expected to raise the recommended daily dose.

The well-known Women’s Health Initiative study, for instance, tracked women taking 400 units of vitamin D and 1,000 milligrams of calcium. The study found no overall benefit from the supplements, although women who consistently took their pills had a lower risk of hip fracture.

The study found no overall benefit from the supplements, although women who consistently took their pills had a lower risk of hip fracture. (umm, isn't that a health benefit? Or am I an idiot?)

Maybe I should ask Dr. Soram Khalsa to explain it for me. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-soram-khalsa/vitamin-d-for-swine-flu-p_b_310... ... I'm taking his Vitamin D