Validation

• A True Quest for Truth Denies Nothing

  A truly wise person is able to see the world exactly how it is – free from any filters or preferences, judgments or undue optimism or pessimism.

  Almost the truth simply does not work.

  A quest for truth is only valid is you are prepared to change your beliefs based on what you have found.

  Deny nothing

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  10 November 2019

• Taiwanese Buddhist Study

  Everything in moderation is a near unanimous response by health professional, health support organisations and media commentators to solving our health crisis.

  A Taiwanese Buddhist study with 4,384 participants compared type 2 diabetes outcomes for lacto-ovo-vegetarians compared with those who consumed meat. The meat-eating group ate only a very small amount of meat.

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  12 September 2019

• Multiple Sclerosis and Roy Swank

  Roy Swank discovered a dietary connection with multiple sclerosis in the late 1940s following studies in Norway. He instigated a study that followed a group of multiple sclerosis patients for 34 years. He wrote a book, The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book: A Low-Fat Diet for the Treatment of M.S.

  No other treatment plan has come close to achieving the results that Swank achieved.

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  21 June 2018

• William Roberts – The cause of heart disease – It is the cholesterol

  Dr. William Roberts is a leading cardiovascular pathologist. He is the current editor (at 2018) of the American Journal of Cardiology— a position he has held since 1982. He has published over 1,500 articles. He has been located at Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute and Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas since 1993.

  Dr. Roberts was the editor of a series of books titled Cardiology which were published annually from 1982-1999.

  Dr. Roberts has advocated and practiced consuming a low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet for over 50 years.

  He believes that there is only one cause of atherosclerosis - “It's the cholesterol, stupid!”

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  4 June 2018

• Ancel Keys did not manipulate his data

  Popular commentators frequently accuse Keys of manipulating data in his 1953 paper, Atherosclerosis, A Problem in Newer Public Health.

  This study is sometimes referred as the “Six Countries Study”. A number of popular commentators think this is the Seven Countries Study— they count England & Wales as two countries.

  This paper was presented in Amsterdam in 1952 and in January 1953 in New York.

  Far too much attention is paid to one page of a minor discussion paper written in the early 1950s. Keys writes,

  “The fact that the present high rate from degenerative heart disease in the United States is not inevitable is easily shown by the comparison with some other countries.”

  This was the purpose of the paper.

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  28 May 2018

• The Fund-raising BBQ

  A fund-raising BBQ is a popular way of obtaining money for research into common cancers, in particular prostate and breast cancer.

  BBQs produce many toxic substances including heterocyclic amines (HCAs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nitrosamines.

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  7 May 2018

• The Ketogenic diet slays the opposition? – not true

  An article titled, How the Keto diet – even without exercise - slays the opposition, by Derek Beres was published on Think Big website on 11th December 2017.

  The Gibas study quoted by the article claims that ketosis is a useful and valid tool to control metabolic syndrome, diabetes and obesity.

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  2 March 2018

• Best Diet to Lose Weight – And it is Not Low-Carb

  The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) was established in 1994. It is the largest study into long-term weight loss programs. The principal researchers are Rena Wing (Brown Medical School, Rhode Island) and James Hill (University of Colorado). There are now over 10,000 participants enrolled in the study.

  To be eligible to enrol in the study participants must be at least 18 years have lost at least 13.6 kg (30 lbs) of weight and kept it off for at least one year.

  According to the researchers “almost nobody is on a low-carbohydrate diet” and they have looked “very hard to locate them. We can't find more than a handful of people who follow the Atkins program in the registry".

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  27 September 2017

• Eating Red Meat is Not Natural

  Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose is popularly known as alpha-gal. It is a carbohydrate found in the meat of mammals – exceptions being primates (which includes humans) and other African and Asian apes.

  Since the early 2000s, severe allergic reaction has been observed several hours after the consumption of red meat. Several deaths have occurred. This is associated with IgE antibodies to alpha-gal as a result of the patients been bitten by ticks. This has occurred in eastern Australia, south-east USA and Sweden.

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  11 September 2017

• Dr William Roberts – Causes of Heart Disease from an Expert

  William Roberts is a leading cardiovascular pathologist. He is the current editor (at 2016) of the American Journal of Cardiology—a position he has held since 1982. He has published over 1,500 articles. Roberts served as the first head of the pathology service at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health from 1964 to 1993. He has been located at Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute and Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas since 1993.

  He is a genuine expert in heart disease.

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  14 April 2017