The Top 10 Medical Myths

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THE TOP 10 MEDICAL MYTHS

 

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1. Lowering your blood cholesterol levels will prevent heart disease.

Science has never been able to link cholesterol with heart disease.

Population studies show that many groups with high levels of heart

disease don't have high levels of blood fats. Careful examination of

the studies supposedly demonstrating that cholesterol-lowering drugs

work show as they fail to translate into a significant number of

lives saved (WDDTY, the book).

 

2. Screening for cancer can catch it early and save lives.

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t_mammography.htm>Mammograms,

cervical cancer screening and the latest PSA screening have never

been shown to save lives. All screening tests are highly inaccurate.

The latest study of the PSA test shows screened men are more likely

to die (see p 1 0 ) .

 

3. The mercury in your fillings is permanently locked in and

therefore harmless. Numerous studies in animals and humans

demonstrate that mercury particles and vapour's are a timed-release

poison, which migrate to various parts of the body, including the

brain, and cross the placenta in pregnant women. We still don't know

the extent of the damage (The Dental Handbook).

 

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the water and dental products is good for your teeth and stops tooth

decay in children. Rather than strengthening bone tissue, fluoride

causes osteoporosis. New evidence shows fluoride can also damage the

central nervous system, causing brain dysfunction, lower IQ and

possibly even Alzheimers disease (WDDTY vol 3 no 9 and vol 9 no 3).

 

5.

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y_of_london_water_concern.htm>Vaccination

has conquered infectious disease.

Careful examination of polio and smallpox casualties shows that the

disease had a higher incidence in many areas that were highly

vaccinated. The incidence of all infectious diseases were plummeting

long before the onset of vaccination, which took the credit (WDDTY,

the book).

 

6. Women need hormone replacement after the menopause to protect

them from osteoporosis and heart disease. All the major studies

supposedly demonstrating a survival benefit with HRT have been

criticised as biased or flawed. Virtually every major study

of HRT also shows it causes at least a 30 per cent increase in

breast cancer (The Guide to Menopause).

 

7. Modern drugs have conquered many diseases.

The only drug capable of curing anything is antibiotics. No other

drug out there cures it simply suppresses symptoms, usually at the

risk of causing a load of other ones (WDDTY, the book).

 

8. Routine X-rays aren't dangerous.

The UK National Academy of Science believes that x-rays could be

responsible for 4 per cent of leukaemias and up to 8 per cent of all

other cancers (WDDTY vol 4 no 6).

 

9. Mental health has nothing to do with diet.

Work in Princeton and now the UK shows links with schizophrenia and

depression and allergies or nutritional deficiencies. Virtually

every case of depression seen by the Institute of Optimum Nutrition

relates to an allergy to wheat (The Guide to Mental Health).

 

10.

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uper_fraud.htm>Cancer

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arch_a_super_fraud.htm>

statistics are improving, thanks to chemotherapy. Chemotherapy has

an all over cure rate of at best 9 per cent, usually for rare

cancers. It doesn't affect in any way the solid tumours which make

up some 90 per cent of all cancers (The Cancer Handbook).

 

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