A critique from Australia’s Robyn Chuter:
(Is an “upside down” food pyramid symbolic in some way?)
One can, if one likes, juxtapose her critique against a lecture on nutrition by Dr. Klaper MD, who advocates for a plant-based diet for lifestyle disease prevention and reversal:
Dr. Klaper founded a program to teach medical students about nutrition, because he has personally seen reversal of common chronic diseases in patients who have listened to his advice. e.g., heart disease, diabetes, etc.
Good common sense advice. If your health provider doesn’t look healthy, leave.
… every one who has breathed air and drank water has died.
You have unwittingly shared with us the recipe for an ancient healing modality (despite that you did not mean to do so with that crack).
See, for example, Shelton, Goldhamer, Fuhrman, Klaper, among many others… —
… the comment was directed at claims concerning correlation and causality.
What we’ve got, in the links I posted, are ideas based on patterns that a couple of health professionals have observed – no more, and no less. Similarly with the injection issue, to which propaganda we’ve all been subjected ad nauseum in the past years – a number of people got sick or died after allowing themselves to be injected: some doctors saw this, went public with their ideas about the patterns they were witnessing and were duly told “correlation is not causation” and labelled as “conspiracy theorists”.
The lady who critiqued the food pyramid was basically saying: look at that upside down pyramid – it’s a pile of bumph – nothing more than a product marketing tool for some powerful industries, who seem to control the USDA, whose symbols are placed very high on that image (with a few fruits and vegetables thrown in for some colourful obfuscation as to what that pyramid is really all about).
And the doctor, who was a former anaesthetist, offers his ideas from his own very long career as a medical professional dealing with very sick people – both in hard core medicine in his earlier years, then later in lifestyle medicine. He is releasing his autobiography of his own observations, “pattern recognition”, his ideas about health and wellbeing, without which life becomes unpleasant for the families we burden with ailments we can easily prevent. And, I doubt that universities teach much wisdom on health – so we’re all basically left to discover healthy living for ourselves.
I, for one, do appreciate when health professionals have courage to counter the Official Bumph that we all have to take an injection or a pill or be subjected to a knife as the only modality to healthful living. And these people need as much courage to publicly bring forth their ideas, based on their insights from their experiences, as the brave souls who came forth when all that covid bumph was being pushed at us. If courageous health professionals hadn’t spoken out about their observations, even though they could not prove any cause from the correlations they were seeing, I might have made some different decisions.
“Correlation” is akin to some kind of pattern recognition, which leads to forming ideas and theories about what you’re seeing, which leads to developing a hypothesis, which then leads to developing a testable “null” hypothesis for either observational or experimental (or combinations thereof) studies, which then leads to insights which lead to further investigations on both the macro and micro levels. In biological systems, further investigation is a must, as the multivariate factors keep changing continually. This, then, leads to Expertise in the area under examination. People who are quick to assign cause, without many years of study – are to be watched…