On 8/11/2014 7:02 AM, Bryan-TGWWW wrote:
> On Monday, August 11, 2014 7:54:46 AM UTC-5, sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:38:28 -0700 (PDT), Bryan-TGWWW
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>> > wrote:
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>>> My experience is that dieticians are worse than worthless excuses for
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>>> human beings.
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>>> So much of the medical establishment is ****ed up. Doctors practice
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>>> defensive medicine, which is about letting big pharma decide best
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>>> treatment options. A great example is the failure of psychiatrists to
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>>> opt for Sinclair as the first choice for alcohol use disorder. No pharma
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>>> companies pushing generic naltrexone with speaking fees and free lunches
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>>> for the whole office.
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>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Method
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>> Treat alcoholism with opiates? Good god. Why not put a gun to your
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>> head and pull the trigger? The cure is faster that way.
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> Do you understand the difference between 'opiates" and opiate antagonists?
> Apparently not.
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>>> Then there's the fact that cardiologists continued to encourage using
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>>> trans-fat margarine over butter
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>> They don't.
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> Not anymore, but they did for many years during the 1970s, and even into the 1980s..
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>>> many years after the evidence clearly
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>>> pointed the other direction, and the fact that they still tell patients
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>>> who they assume to be stupid (often correctly) to eat a low fat diet,
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>>> without making a distinction between foods with varying proportions of
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>>> specific fatty acids.
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>> Life is one big experiment, and then you die.
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> That sentence is worth absolutely nothing. It is an endorsement of ignorance.
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> --Bryan
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Despite the fact it is largely true...