Everything You Know Is Wrong

I've been saying it would happen for nearly a decade, and now I am seeing it come to pass: 

It's been declared that  soy is bad for you, and chocolate is a health food. (The first link may ask you for an email address. Just make something up.) Yes, incidentally, both declarations come from the same osteopathic doctor's website. And yes, incidentally, you can buy the 'health food' chocolate bars directly from him for a meager thirty bucks per 12-pack plus exorbitant shipping fees...

I think it was best summed up in a statement made to the pastor of what I gather was a fairly affluent congregation: "I don't trust anyone who stands to profit from getting me to believe what he tells me."  

Update on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 03:41PM by mrs. nygren

Further proof that opinions are like [name of body part here]-- everyone's got one and most of 'em stink:

Right after I was reading another article from the first link where the doctor asserts that the phytoestrogens in soy products aren't nearly so powerful as advertised, a friend sent me a link to another online article that claims those same allegedly impotent phytoestrogens in soy products are making people gay.

I'd file this under "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" if not for the fact that, evidently, somebody can.

Comments

[cheryl]

I am thinking that I frequently give others my own unsolicited medical/nutritional advice. Perhaps an annoying habit of mine which I think is helpful, but probably isn't. I apologize for that.

[mrs. n]

Cheryl - that's news to me, so you certainly don't owe me an apology! I'm all about getting medical/nutritional counsel if I need it, especially from someone I personally know and trust. Now, if you start building websites that make inflammatory and/or unsubstantiated claims about such things... well, we'll torch that bridge when we get to it.

[J. Lo]

For the record, Jake Shaw and I ( not that either of those names mean much in the world of medicine, except that there's strenghth in numbers) have been proclaiming the dangers of regular soy consumption for years. That's why we're not gay.