The most common misconception about nutrition is that we actually know a lot about nutrition.
Fact: no-one studies healthy nutrition and diet in a serious, scientific fashion.
We have lots of theories, lots of errors, lots of contradictions, but little true scientific testing in search of truth.
Virtually all of the scientific research into nutrition is ‘illness based’, not healthiness based. Continue reading
If you are trying to learn about the school killings, and similar incidents, you will find nothing of use from the medical profession. There are many guesses about mental illness, from depression to psychopathy, many observations about drug side effects and withdrawal symptoms – but no real answers. There are two reasons for this situation.
First: the medical paradigm ignores healthiness and unhealthiness. The medical profession works by diagnosing illness (often not cause) and prescribing treatment once illness is diagnosed. Continue reading
I don’t call them Energy Drinks, I call them fatergy drinks. They don’t give you energy, they give you fat.
The main ingredients in ‘fatergy drinks’ are sugars and caffeine, sometimes a few other stimulants, a few added vitamins and food colorings.
Don’t ask “do they provide energy?” ask: ‘do the people who buy fatergy drinks need energy?‘.
Are the people who buy fatergy drinks ‘calorie starved’? Are they skinny, lethargic, suffering from malnutrition? Nope. Most are, at the least, slightly overweight or worse. Some are obese, a disease of malnutrition, resulting from dietary imbalances. Not a deficiency of energy, it’s a deficiency of health. Continue reading
It is important to distinguish clearly between healthiness and illness in order to improve our understanding of both and to improve our status in both. We begin with healthiness.
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ur current medical paradigm is incomplete and insufficient. Clinical studies treat symptoms* as ‘bad’, to be ‘treated’ or minimized. This failure is at the core of many of the systemic medical problems we face today. It is a reason we have ‘given up’ trying to cure many chronic illnesses. It is also a reason we don’t test conventional nor alternative medicines adequately.
Most medical studies completely ignore symptoms of health and healing. All medications list ‘side effects’ on the packaging. Every medicine has a design effect. Other effects are listed as ‘side effects’. Continue reading
