OK, I do not have medical training and can only express my opinion and attempt to rescue the facts from the ocean of dross. If you do your own research you will be able to verify my statements. But of course, check with your own doctor in the case of health matters that concern you.
Unfortunately, much of the published material does not bear scrutiny. Articles are churned out for marketing purposes, many are sourced from writers whose first language is not English. Additionally, some are written by webmasters who would struggle with the bubble dialogue in a Marvel comic. So many sites are dedicated to earning money regardless of the accuracy of the articles they carry that there is a danger of all confidence in web based information being lost.
In short, there is absolute gibberish out there in cyberspace parading as health or medical information.
There's hardly an article or e-book on slimming or "detox" that does not insist that we need to drink 8 glasses of water - or 2 litres in some instances - when there's no earthly reason to do so. It is an established medical fact that practically everybody obtains all the need from there normal food and drink intake including tea, coffee, beer etc. Not spirits though; sorry!. This particular myth stems from an old research paper that stated that we need 2 litres of water a day. It went on to say that we satisfy our needs from normal activities. Unfortunately someone published the 2 litre bit and ignored the rest, it was quoted elsewhere and a myth was born.
Detoxing is another bit of nonsense. If you eat a normal healthy and varied diet, your liver does all the detoxing you need to be healthy. There is no reason at all to go on some whacky diet that usually includes some esoteric substance discovered in the Andes or suchlike and kept secret until now. If you have a very poor diet and eat little but cakes, burgers etc, you will undoubtedly feel better if you improve your intake with the addition of fresh vegetables and fruit. It really is that simple. As for colonic irrigation, forget it!
In the early part of the last century, some scientists published a paper on nutrition that included an analysis of the iron content of spinach. It's unfortunate they put a decimal point in the wrong place giving the false impression that spinach was awash with iron. That error has been repeated over and over again. Spinach, although a very healthy addition to anyones diet, has no more iron than anything other vegetable. Again unfortunately, the iron in spinach is in a form that the human body can make little use of. It does however have a good supply of other nutrients.
Many people think that there is some mysterious dormant ability lurking in the human brain as, according to a popular myth, only 10% of our brain is used. In fact, recent research has shown we use 60% even while sleeping. There are no dormant areas.
How many times have you offered to buy someone an alcoholic drink only to be told they cannot partake as they're taking antibiotics? In fact the only antibiotics that interact badly with alcohol are Flagyl (metronidazole) and
Tinidazole. Conversely, Tetracycline must not be taken with milk or most antacids as it interferes with teir absorption.
The reason why people are so keen to accept this nonsense without question is elusive, but it goes beyond matters medical. There are still otherwise sensible citizens who believe that spiders are able to climb up a slimy wet pipe, dive into a "U" bend full of water, swim down through water full of soap or even bath cleaning chemicals, negotiate their way though a plug hole and arrive triumphantly in their bath! The notion that the spider simply climbed up the outside of the bath and fell in is far too mundane. It seems to be part of human nature that believes there's a mass of knowledge that "they" don't want us to know and so they grasp any tidbit of off the wall information they can find. In the light of this, no wonder people are being fleeced by the purveyors of whacky - and for the most part useless - health products.
Another and in some ways, more sinister aspect is the murky political rumour mongering that perpetuates myths seeking to damage multinational companies. As an example, a recent Channel 4 documentary in the UK found that the fat and salt levels in sandwiches sold in garages and supermarkets far exceed that in a Big Mac and fries. In spite of this, in the world of the web it's only MacDonalds that is castigated for the perceived unhealthy nature of their fare. Of course the sandwiches are made in small and often unhygenic factories, that's presumably OK. Whereas the Big Mac is produced by one of those evil multinationals and so must be bad!
I mention this because myths about products from multinationals are everywhere. A few years back we had the KFC nonsense about genetically modified chickens consisting of the saleable bits and nothing else! Coca Cola comes in for a bashing now and then. Diet Coke is singled out as being lethal because of the sweetener used. Without going too far into it, don't you think that in a country like the USA where someone can successfully sue MacDonalds because their coffee was hot, Coca Cola could get away with killing people without a class action suit?
Is it a coincidence that a lot of these myths concern companies that are also the target of anti-globalisation campaigners?
There is even a myth about something as mundane as Marmite. A lot of the quack nutrionists claim it must be avoided because of it's yeast content which exacerbates yeast infections that cause bloating and other horrors. The jar does mention yeast, as the product is made from yeast extract. The process for producing the extract is such that there is no chance at all that there is any live yeast in the product. It makes as much sense as trying to hatch a chicken from a stock cube. In spite of this, a certain "new age" nutritionist who has books riding high on Amazon has made a career out of "Marmite and Bovril bashing" even though neither product contains it.
These myths are frequently mentioned in articles and e-books and so can be used as a measure of the accuracy of the rest of the information therein, I hope you find it useful.
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