Longer life without meat?
Is acidic constitution the source of all diseases?
I believe everyone has heard these statements more or less. These dietary therapies that can [detoxify] [clear body] are also very popular abroad in recent years.
But Giles, a PhD in molecular genetics at Cambridge University, doubts this type of story:
Our real scientists need to talk about evidence. These dietary methods are useless just by the Internet celebrities.
As a result, he assisted BBC Horizon to shoot a documentary to explore the story behind these online red diets.
The war between real science and pseudoscience began.
STEP 1 Don’t Eat Grain
The first person the host met was the former cardiac surgeon who claimed that [all grains are harmful to human body].
The two men sat together and had a meal. When ordering the meal, the surgeon said:
Quality, in short, is a substance in grain that resembles glue and can bind flour together.
About 1% of the world’s people cannot eat foods containing foods due to some intestinal problems. Therefore, forced to choose some non-quality substitutes.
However, people who insist on a gluten-free diet claim that all kinds of diseases in all mankind are caused by eating grain.
[People’s health has declined since people began to eat grain].
He also cited research by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to prove that eating grain causes immune system problems.
However, his view, even the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist quoted by him himself, said:
So the host asked him why you were the only one promoting such an important discovery.
The surgeon smiled: Because it can’t make any money.
2. Alkaline diet
Another theory with the same clear bones is also aimed at pharmaceutical factories.
In True Health: Purification, the author wrote, “Eating alkaline foods can help cure incurable diseases. But his findings are not recognized by the medical community. Because if all doctors use vegetables as prescriptions, how can pharmaceutical factories make money?” ]
This theory, I believe everyone has heard of, is the “acid and alkali constitution” theory. This theory holds that the root cause of people’s illness is acidity. If you want not to get sick, you must turn your body into alkaline by eating alkaline food.
The host came to this man’s palace-like large [farm] in California, USA.
The farm also has a moat
As soon as we entered the door, our host was popularized a [glass fish tank] saying:
If your fish is sick, will you feed the fish medicine or change the water for the fish?
Of course, it is to change water for fish!
Wait, can people be the same as fish? Human blood does have slight alkalinity. However, the medical consensus verified by numerous scientists and doctors is that no matter eating what, the pH value of blood cannot be changed.
In addition, Robert also believed that all human diseases are caused by cytopathic changes in the human body. However, this theory was abandoned long after Pasteur discovered bacteria and external infections.
In other words, Robert overturned the research results of scientists for hundreds of years by himself and without any evidence.
The host was also shocked when he left the farm.
STEP 3 Don’t Eat Meat
Finally, the host visited an old scientist with gray hair.
The scientist published a book called “China Studies”. After investigating more than 6,500 people in rural China, he collected and analyzed the data in a serious way and finally came to the conclusion that people should not eat meat!
Huh? ? ? ?
If this discovery is true, does it not mean that we have been eating the wrong food all along? Are humans still not creatures standing at the top of the food chain?
The host was also shocked, but scientists saw that [scientists] were indeed different from us. The host came up and asked a question [how did you analyze these data].
Rigorous scientific research requires hypotheses to be put forward and then verified by various indicators. In addition, the experimental results of one scientist also need to be verified by other scientists.
However, the old man’s experiment was to feed the mice casein in milk, and it was concluded that the higher the casein, the higher the risk of the mice.
After pushing mice to all people and casein to all meat, we came to a conclusion:
Eating meat is not good for one’s health, while being a vegetarian is good for one’s health.
Um …
Finally, under the host’s repeated inquiries, the old man responded, “I didn’t say it must be good not to eat meat.”
After three rounds, no one can produce evidence to prove that the diet he has implemented is [healthier] and effective.
Then the question arises, why can these studies, which are full of loopholes in science and rigour (some cannot even be called studies at all, but are purely subjective assumptions), develop and grow in the world and become the online red diet?
We can also see the clue from the host’s interview with the three men.
First of all, of course, is the net red effect. The three [scientists] interviewed by the host, although they are the initiators of these dietary methods, and these dietary methods really became red through some shiny [net red], especially some outstanding girls.
However, through the marketing of these online celebrities, people’s pursuit of [clean diet] has reached an abnormal level on social networks.
This is certainly not the worst.
The surgeon, after being mercilessly debunked by the host, said it was easy to quit grain, just like suddenly not letting you eat watermelon one day. Even if not eating watermelon has no effect, people will not feel that there is a great loss to what.
On alkaline farms, the situation is even worse.
Under the banner of “changing the physical environment”, Robert admitted nearly 100 cancer patients to the alkaline farm and provided them with alkaline water injection, enema and other services.
An Australian cancer patient died of heart failure on the farm. Before her death, she received 33 injections here, each costing more than 500 US dollars.
Another young British officer also found Robert after suffering from cancer. After spending sky-high medical expenses on alkaline farms, he realized that he had been cheated and finally died.
To this, Robert’s response is:
A survey showed that 81 cancer patients who received [treatment] on the farm actually had an expected cure rate of 15%. As a result, none of these people survived.
However, Robert, who claimed that [if doctors prescribe plants, pharmaceutical companies cannot make money], became a millionaire living in a palace-like house.
Later, the judicial investigation of Robert showed that he did not have a medical license at all and had bought his previous academic qualifications. However, facing three years in prison, he also told the patients who came to [improve their cancer status] by telephone:
[Clean Diet] These methods, looking at each meal individually, are healthy, and there is not enough science to prove that eating this way for a long time will have what nutrition for health. Perhaps some of these assumptions will really bring new hope to the current scientific research.
However, instead of taking a real scientific attitude to conduct research and look for evidence, it is the real hateful place of these pseudosciences to make money through marketing in the gray areas of these sciences and even to kill people for money by importuning and describing individual cases as common cases.
Although the phenomenon described in the documentary is concentrated in Britain and the United States, Ding Dong felt that this kind of situation definitely happened to us, even worse.
All kinds of Internet celebrities and stars in the circle of friends sell [fat tiger] [slimming plum] and other products that they claim to have changed their weight loss and body cleaning products. The variety of [fruit juice cut-off] [enzyme] products, although theoretically untenable, still attracted countless people to pay for them with glamorous advertisements.
In contrast, these are actually conscientious: although the effect is not clear, at least they have not reached the level of harming people.
Like alkaline farms, people who kill for money and leave themselves clear are like those who sell health care products to the elderly with hypocrisy?
There are many kinds of refresher classes for Bigu, Yiqi and Beating and Stretching tendons. They do not allow chronic patients to take medicine, claiming that hypertension, heart disease and cancer, which cannot be solved by modern medicine, can be cured by such simple methods as cutting off food and beating.
What these people use is the desire for health of these elderly and chronic patients. This is also driven by interests, using unconfirmed pseudoscience to manipulate this group of people who are most vulnerable and in need of help.
At the end of the documentary, the host said:
The world has been divided into two parts: one is a world of science, evidence and objectivity, and the other is a world full of [clean diet], which is dominated by pseudoscience driven by faith and proved by some individual people.
Which world do you want to keep more?