Millions of people who have been eating and enjoying cholesterol-rich eggs under the assurance they do not increase the risk for heart disease have now been told eggs (slightly) increase the risk for strokes.
And 50+ million Americans have now been told the aspirin tablet they have been taking to prevent a heart attack or a stroke is useless.
Bottom line, the most recent advice is to throw out the eggs and the aspirin tablets.
But wait, organized medicine has misled the public before.
Over the past five decades public health authorities have issued slanted reports offering advice about diet and health that have been a giant misdirection that only served doctors and drug companies, not the public. In fact, it appears the aggregate body of medical advice published in recent times has been intentionally created to increase the amount of disease to treat, real and imagined, ather than prevent it. And how easy it is to spin a scientific report so as to produce more imagined pre-disease to treat. Examples:
- Pre-diabetes (a report in Science Magazine now says it is a “dubious diagnosis”). The following graphic from that reports reveals a jump in pre-diabetes candidates but no decrease in risk for diabetes itself.
Credits: N. Desai/Science (data) American Diabetes Assn.; US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; D Nathan, Diabetes Care, 32, 1327, 2009.
Graphic credit: The Lancet, Volume 355, Jan 15, 2000.
- Use of the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test for prostate cancer even though that test only weakly correlates with malignancy and leads to overtreatment).
Health misdirection #1
Eggs were once placed behind bars. As the most bountiful source of cholesterol, eggs were once demonized until it became evident that eggs…