Monday, November 7, 2011

Medical Rant 2.0

A ticker at the bottom of the TV screen this morning said "A new study shows that drinking two glasses of wine a day may increase the risk of breast cancer in women by 50%."

Eggs were good, eggs were bad. Coffee was good, coffee was bad. Sugar good, sugar bad. Wine good, wine bad. Red meat good, red meat bad. Vitamins good, vitamins bad. Jogging good, jogging bad. Too much exercise, too little exercise. The right way to work out, the wrong way, wrong equals right, right equals wrong.

The medical community can perform organ transplants, install pacemakers, re-attach severed limbs, remove tumors, separate Siamese twins, perform delicate brain surgery.
The medical community has absolutely no clue how the human body works on a very basic level. Why what is good for you might be bad for me.
Maybe surgery is more profitable than promoting and maintaining health. Too cynical?

Its just that I find it odd in 2011 with all the information and expertise and research and analysis that our esteemed medical professionals cannot come up with a consistent recipe for health.

My advice: Do what feels right to you and ignore your doctor's contempt when he criticizes your lifestyle. He doesn't know a goddamn thing about you.

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