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As someone who's trying to sort through the frequently-conflicting information out there on health and diet, I found a lot of this article interesting, though I
by BrianHV 16y ago
As someone who's trying to sort through the frequently-conflicting information out there on health and diet, I found a lot of this article interesting, though I felt sometimes like the author was trying to sell me something more than he was trying to educate me.
Then this caught my attention:
> Address your emotional challenges. I particularly love the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for stress management.
Curious about what that was, I googled it and ended up getting an overview from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_Freedom_Technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_Freedom_Technique):
> Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a form of alternative psychotherapy that purports to manipulate the body's energy field by tapping on acupuncture points while a specific traumatic memory is focused on, in order to alleviate a psychological problem.
Further reading makes that technique appear more and more pseudoscientific to me. I realize that advocating pseudoscience in one respect doesn't mean he's advocating it in another, but it does not engender trust.
Edit: more on this author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/mercola.html http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/mercola.html
- electromagnetic 16y agoOne thing I've found interesting in my readings is that sunscreen beyond ~SPF15 (Zinc and/or Titanium dioxide only, no benzene chemicals) are directly correlated with skin cancer. As the sales of sunscreen go up, so do the rates of skin cancer, why? #1 the main chemical used to 'protect' our skin actually has a breakdown chain to benzene, think all the fuss over Potassium/Sodium benzoate in Coke/Pepsi, but absorbed into your bodies largest organ in considerably larger quantities. #2 Vitamin D is known to boost our immune system, decrease heart disease, etc. Vitamin D decreases heart disease? Cholesterol + Melanin + UV radiation = Vitamin D. So not only does vitamin D decrease your cholesterol, it also strengthens our immune system, which can actively remove plaque from our arteries. Low cholesterol diets are dangerous for many reasons, mainly because cholesterol is a key element in synthesizing myelin. Myelin is the insulation on nerve cells, which is why women should never be on cholesterol-reducing drugs while of fertile age and will cause a fetus to develop no viable nerve cells causing still birth or mental development problems. Similarly, children shouldn't be on low-cholesterol diets until about 25 (when mental development -relatively- stops) or they're at risk of developing serious conditions. Sunscreen again should probably be avoided unless they're going to get way too much sun.
- rue 16y ago> As the sales of sunscreen go up, so do the rates of skin cancer, why? Not to detract from your possibly researchable argument but A) the ozone layer is getting thinner and thinner and B) the people buying the sunscreen are not necessarily the ones getting skin cancer.