Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

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the fault is with Big Pharma, Big Sugar, Big Dairy, Big Government, Lobbyists and the diet industry. She would cite all the studies that I later found out are bogus and sponsored by some drug company to boost sales.

I can anecdotally concur that Scarsdale, Atkins and Keto are the only diets where I can really lose weight.It used to anger me to no end to serve hospitalized diabetics their meal trays following the ADA diet, with potatoes, gravy, starchy vegetables, whole grain buns, fake margarine, a tiny portion of some dried out low fat meat, and sugar-free jello. Since I was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia at age 20, my doctors constantly picked on me about my weight.

Berry's bestseller Lies My Doctor Told Me exposes the truth behind all kinds of 'lies' told by well-meaning but misinformed medical practitioners. He also points out how difficult it can be, as a doctor, to go against any of the conventional medical "wisdom" or practices that permeate the field. I've been an RN for 35 years, and trust me--not all physicians are eloquent with the ability to drop two paragraphs of well-crafted words at the drop of a hat, much less a whole books' worth! That being said, I'm disappointed with some of the methodologies used to present information in the book.Pick 2 of his YouTube videos set a few years apart and realise he's reverse-aging and that he might therefore know a thing or two. Poor doctor, you can’t expect him/her to know everything in the medical practice and keep up with all the new medical advances. There's even a section directed straight at medical students and doctors, encouraging them to try harder to keep informed and to not be afraid to question standard conventions that don't help their patients. What about the correlation of skin cancer and Australians--surely the Australians don't eat the unhealthiest diet in the world but they DO have high incidents of skin cancer. Add to this the fact that I'm known as the spelling and grammar mistress by almost everyone who knows me.

Seriously, you want me to believe that processed meats like lunch meat, bologna, sausage, spam for God's sake are not only not bad for me but good for me. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is not to say that what he is saying is wrong, only that the claim lacks the scientific basis that he insists we should have before making dietary recommendations. Forty years in family medicine taught me to question certain practices , especially when the advice came from Pharmacuetical companies, who I found lied to us repeatedly . Nutrition and diet and extremely important, but most of what Ive learned in the past years has been on my own.What I liked most about his book is that each chapter goes through a myth and then he refers you to read other books that go into depth about the myths that we have been taught. At the high level, I agree with the overall message the author is looking to convey here, namely that just because someone is a credentialed MD, doesn't mean that they necessarily are the be all and end all authority of all things, and that at the end of the day, since you're the one that has to live in your body, ultimately the buck stops with you when it comes to being responsible for your health, and being willing to challenge thinking that may be out of date. I work in software, and we understand that best practices are not necessarily universal, but the solution when you find an exception to a best practice is to implement the exception and add it as a valid edge case to the overall knowledge base, and if you see enough of them, to maybe re-evaluate the correctness of the best practice, but not to throw out the entire methodology of establishing best practices.