Did you read through the abstract? They used 1 gram/day. One gram isn't going to do anything. You need 10 plus grams. You'll find that many if not most Vitamin C studies to be seriously flawed in this respect; the doses used are far lower than anything that Linus Pauling and others used.
Colds last like.. 2 days? 3 days? Why the hell would you even bother? I mean, sure, do whatever you can for a couple days.. I'm not taking 100x the amount my body needs of something because someone on the internet swears it works. Sorry, bro, NOTHING kills the cold virus except your own immune system, and for me that shit works whether I take cold meds or vitamin C. I try just try to make myself feel better and eliminate possible other causes before I accept having a cold truly. Not all the vitamin C in the world will kill your cold bug, so it seems crazy to me to take SO much of a substance that isn't really going to help your symptoms or actually help a cold duration. 1 1/2 days? Versus 2? Not worth it. I could use saline and get more relief. It's a preference thing only so far.
I guess you wouldn't be interested in the large 1985 British Medical Research Council study (17,000 patients) that shows no effect on death rates from using hypertension medications.
I'll bet you wouldn't be surprised to hear me say there's been a ton of research, new drugs, and such that have come out since that 1985 study. A lot's happened in 30 years.
(which is a serious and dangerous worldwide health threat that is a question of when, not if. It trumps the issues in this thread topic by thousands of orders of magnitude).
Such a good point. I see so much people selling the antibacterial angle from both ends of the spectrum.. only, luckily, hippies are 'natural' and misguided on what antibacterial stuff tends to do on their end, so they actually don't do a ton of harm in this category.
It's incredibly dishonest. This is not the first individual I have encountered with this sort of value towards holistic medicine. Many seem to think credentials aren't that important, or aren't at all.
This is entirely my point. It isn't exactly that I want to seem like a "I HEART DOCTORZ GAIZ" person but people just don't have an appreciation for that. If I told someone, "Hey, I've never done this surgery before, but I swear I watched a ton of videos on it and read on the internet and books and science. So.. sign here?" they'd tell me to fuck off. When it's something like that, suddenly credentials matter. Before that, it's just snobby posh people.
Good to hear. I'm just disappointed that most of the drive to "improve" vaccines is cosmetic and done to satisfy people who refuse them; it's done for PR reasons mostly.
Mostly because the one that make the most noise make it for all the wrong reasons. instead of well established issues being discussed, it's some dog-breath celebrity girl crying about, like, science is all cold and stuff. "My kid has autism and I don't understand why.. but these people said it MIGHT be to blame, and I really want something to blame so I know I didn't do bad things as a parent."
That bothers me, too. However, has it occurred to you that this occurs because those with alternative views can never back their statements with decent evidence or research (and when they do, it tends to be misinterpreted or shady)?
I told a girl on my facebook about this. I told her, "Hey, did you know this news source you're crediting information from is misleading? They're selling stuff left and right on the site that conveniently have stuff supporting the stuff they're selling, tons of ad tracker cookies on the site which is nearly comparable to porn sites, and literally say, "While we cannot draw any conclusions from this..." because They legally can't misrepresent someone's research? They can sake passive aggressive-esque twisty media things all they want after that charming disclaimer. Why don't you ever question why the skirt around those issues like lindmines?" ... Fell entirely on deaf ears.
The majority of the population not having a gene for digesting lactose is not at all the same as having diabetes, which is an illness. .... Kyuuei in fact noted the way many people just want to pop a pill instead of altering their diet or taking other factors like exercise, sleep, etc into consideration.
If you believe at all in evolution it would make a lot of sense that some cultures are more suited to eat certain foods than others. It's a topic I've wanted to study in the future sometime, but until then, yes diabetes is an illness.. just like developing an allergy or skin condition is. But your body having lactase, mantaining it, and using it truly is a matter of philosophical opinion. Like I've stated on the site before, I tried an all natural, raw food diet.. I carefully researched food combinations, meal plans for adequate calories, etc. etc. And I got really ill. Very ill. I gained weight, held water, felt like garbage, and nothing I did was far outside the parameters of what raw foodies suggest. I followed their teachings. My body just was not made for that. Also, I found out I have an oral allergy to all raw fruit. AN ALLERGY TO FRUIT, can you imagine? What a nonsense allergy. Does that mean I should swear off all fruit and all their delicious health benefits just because I get slightly uncomfortable? Or, can I take an allergy pill and get all those benefits? Or just cook the food, and saw raw foodies are full of it and some people need to cook their food? That's a philosophy thing. They aren't wrong for being raw--but it WAS wrong for me.
Similarly, just judging people's choice to use milk in their health and diet (for whatever reasons) is opinionated overall. It's a philosophical question more than a science-based one. There's studies abound that are fighting all the time.. whether x is good, or bad, or neutral, or good and bad.. Milk is one of those topics. Generally speaking, if you aren't intolerant, it can help your health, and if you are, there's plenty of alternatives for you. I don't see why diary is overly demonized when people abuse it and don't just eat the proper portions of it.. most things when over used are bad for you.
The Japanese constantly deal with issues like constipation from high rice diets, which is just as uncomfortable as lactose intolerance episodes. Their diet is great, and healthy, but it's far from perfect. I study their diet and trends a lot more than the average American would, I've always had an interest in the country, and I believe Americans would benefit greatly from the principles. But leaping to the conclusion that low dairy makes for a better diet is negating the entirety of the benefits of their diet which is regardless of dairy existing in it or not.