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Comment on Weekend Update February 4, 2012 by Marilyn Mann

Marilyn Mann — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:26:00 +0000

Thanks for the mention!

Comment on Varying dietary protein with overfeeding in a metabolic ward by Endodoc

Endodoc — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:11:00 +0000

Dr. Bray, are you tracking these volunteers to see how quickly they lose weight and what happens to their % fat and % lean body mass as they return to usual diets?

Comment on Oxypowder is a scam. by Colby

Colby — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:58:00 +0000

I’ll address all of these logical fallacies I suppose.

Colby, regulations need to come into place for the food available on the supermarket shelves which poison our bodies beyond imagination.

This has nothing to do with supplements with no scientific backing behind them.

You are what you eat, Digestive disorders is pretty much the link to all disease in our body. These disorders come from the food and medications prescribed by your hero’s “the doctors” (who are only out to make a quick buck by promoting meds the pharma companies are pushing towards them).

Um, no, digestive disorders is not the link to all disease. Many medications are effective and there are studies on them demonstrating this, because they are required, unlike for supplements.

While I agree that the vitamin/supplement companies are a billion dollar scam organisation to a degree they are not the real threat bc at the end of the day these supplements or oils wont kill you.

So even though most supplements do nothing we should allow them the freedom to scam people? Even if it were true that they were benign (many could definitely have acute and chronic effects and because quality control isn’t usually a high priority there are many tainted products), how does this make sense?

Remember that all these vitamin/herb/supplement companies are based on fact and naturopathy which is a lot older than modern day medicine.

This is the appeal to antiquity fallacy. Modern day medicine is the only effective medicine because it is based on scientific evidence, and naturopathy is not. Also, how is it “natural” to extract vitamins, herbs, and other things?

Comment on Super Bowl weight damage – are temporary indulgences ok? by Beth@WeightMaven

Beth@WeightMaven — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +0000

Art DeVany has argued on his site against these kinds of temporary indulgences for epigenetic reasons. I couldn’t begin to make his case re validity, but thought I’d mention it.

Comment on Oxypowder is a scam. by Danny

Danny — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:10:00 +0000

Global Healing Center also sells other quackery like detox foot pads which are backed up by vague and unconvincing “clinical studies”. I really wish people would do their research before buying pseudo-medicine. They would find out pretty quickly that “detoxification” has been disproved for a long time and has no place in real medicine.

Comment on Oxypowder is a scam. by Gia

Gia — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:15:00 +0000

Colby, regulations need to come into place for the food available on the supermarket shelves which poison our bodies beyond imagination. You are what you eat, Digestive disorders is pretty much the link to all disease in our body. These disorders come from the food and medications prescribed by your hero’s “the doctors” (who are only out to make a quick buck by promoting meds the pharma companies are pushing towards them). Regulations and legislations need to start with the crap being made today and fed to us. Education is of next priority. While I agree that the vitamin/supplement companies are a billion dollar scam organisation to a degree they are not the real threat bc at the end of the day these supplements or oils wont kill you. Its a matter of people investigating and researching on the net what is for e.g a legit fish oil capsule as opposed to one of your so called ‘scam companies’.
Remember that all these vitamin/herb/supplement companies are based on fact and naturopathy which is a lot older than modern day medicine. Maybe you need to open your mind up a little bit and realise that most of the scams that are harmful are those right in front of your face nd fed to you by your governments.

Comment on Weekend Update January 21, 2012 by Colby

Colby — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:24:00 +0000

Fair enough, I will defer to your expertise on this one (assuming you are who I think you are). I’ve updated the post with an addendum to see your comment.

-Colby (aka Cody )

Comment on Weekend Update January 21, 2012 by HM

HM — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:29:00 +0000

Cody, I have enjoyed your posts, but I think you may have missed something in posting the American Council on Science and Health’s paper on Pesticides myths and realities. The Council appears to be an industry advocacy group masquerading as a public interest organization. This is a position paper, if that is what it should be called, that seeks to downplay the uncertainties remaining in the toxicology community about the safety of these pesticides. It would be easier to resolve the questions if oppositional research was not so heavily funded by vested interests.

Comment on Does nutrition need a new research paradigm? by Colby

Colby — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:34:00 +0000

You might want to check if Google or archive.org cached the page if you haven’t already.

Comment on Does nutrition need a new research paradigm? by Andreas Zourdos

Andreas Zourdos — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:08:00 +0000

Due to excessive spam on my site I had to change the link of the article. Unfortunately all comments by me and others are gone.New link http://metavolismos.blogspot.com/2012/01/nutritional-genomics-exploring-evidence.html