We all play the dunce once in a while.
Lots of Americans have extra junk in their trunk these days. For that matter, the whole world is getting fatter. If you have too much junk in your trunk, you may what to blame junk science.
Definition for Junk science from Wikimedia:
Junk science is a term used in U.S. political and legal disputes that brands an advocate's claims about scientific data, research, or analyses as spurious. The term may convey a pejorative connotation that the advocate is driven by political, ideological, financial, or other unscientific motives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_science
Junk science is rampant in the American zeitgeist. Most of us believe nutritional and medical myths, like a low fat diet is heart healthy, because we've heard this nonsense repeated over and over. So it must be based on solid science, right? Wrong. The low fat diet myth is just one junk science myth we intend to cover here. Another will be the high carbohydrate diet pushed by the US government and agriculture. We'll explain why this nutrition advice train wreck is the main reason why we're seeing a sharp rise in obesity and diabetes.
Read "Faulty study on low carbohydrate and heart disease risk exposed by Carol Bardelli."
Junk science is fueled by a gullible media machine that rarely looks at the science behind the medical and nutrition studies they report on. Almost all of the mainstream media, nutrition "experts" and the medical community blindly accept health and diet myths. And when the proven science catches up to their beliefs, they stand fast.
Even Dr. Mehmet Oz, dubbed "America's Doctor" by his popular daytime talk show "The Dr. Oz Show" recently (February 24, 2010) said he was not a fan of low carbohydrate diets. This blanket statement on "all" low carbohydrate diets wasn't exactly a fair assessment of low carbohydrate eating. And it ignored a great deal of scientific studies showing the benefits of low carbohydrate diets. And he said this despite the fact he claimed to approve of low carbohydrate diets on an episode of "Larry King Live" also featuring Dr. Andrew Weil, an advocate of low carb.
Click here to read more and watch the video Dr. Andrew Weil endorses Gary Taube's "Good Calories, Bad Calories" on "Larry King Live."
