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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Would you be skeptical of your heart surgeon when she says that you need to have a quintuple bypass?
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Funny you mention that: Yes. Our medical industry is running off of outdated information, myths, half-truths, and misinformation perpetrated and paid for by the food companies.
Doctors would have you believe that clogged arteries are due to cholesterol. Wrong: it is due to the cholesterol composition.They would also have you believe that it is due to eating animal products. A half-truth: it is due to eating animal products who are raised eating foods that we ourselves shouldn't eat.
Doctors are trained in acute care, not to be lifestyle coaches. They only know what has been published in their field, by other doctors, and approved (meaning it was vetted and allowed to pass through -- or not -- based on the opinions of people with a financial interest). The two main lobbyists against healthy eating are the pharmaceutic and agricultural industries. The pharmaceutical industry only makes money if people are unhealthy, and the agricultural industry makes a smaller profit margin on healthy, chemical-free food. They shouldn't be the ones calling the shots, but they are, because they have the money and the financial interest.
I'm not saying that all doctors are hacks (I've occasionally met competent ones), but most of them are. If you have gotten to the point that you NEED a quadruple bypass, then your doctor was incompetent for letting you get to that point in the first place. Again, all they know is what they've been told by vetted, approved information. It makes their opinions about as sound as a priests: "The Bible is true because God says it is. God is always right because the Bible says he is."
Circular arguments are SO 15th Century.