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Originally Posted by troutman
I can do quick google searches too! Tiny bit of effort.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...e_or_woo_2.php
There's one form of woo that I've dealt with before, but haven't revisited. It's a bit of woo that's so monumentally silly that it's hard to believe that anyone can take it seriously, although I will admit up front that it is not quite as silly as homeopathy. It's close though. I'm talking, of course, about pH woo, the concept that pretty much every disease (or at least a whole heck of a lot of them) is caused by alterations in your blood pH, usually to the acid side, and that all you have to do to restore health is to "alkalinize your blood." |
To be fair, the video he posted doesn't say that any that any disease is caused by eating an acidic diet. What it is claiming is that the body has to utilize its nutrients like calcium and iodine to bring the pH of stuff you eat up or down. I'm not so sure I buy that (since the body doesn't just take diet soda and inject it directly into the blood), but I wouldn't say it's total woo either, it seems plausible.
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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...e_or_woo_2.php
Orac is the nom de blog of a (not so) humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. (Continued here, along with a DISCLAIMER that you should read before reading any medical discussions here.)
DISCLAMER!!!! this blog is intended for discussion and entertainment purposes only and not as recommendations about how to diagnose or treat illnesses.
The guy is also not giving his real name...
ANY link to this site is a joke.
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Completely wrong, Scienceblogs has many well respected scientists blogging on their site. The disclaimer is there because unlike a blogger talking about physics or biology, someone talking about medicine has a very real threat of potential lawsuits. And he explains why he posts under "Orac", hardly nefarious.
Plus discounting the argument because the poster is anonymous is fallacious.
Notice how you forgot to underline the part before entertainment.
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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
The bottom line is - do what you want. By talking vitamins regularly, and decreasing my meat intake greatly and increasing my veggies in addition to getting my sweat on daily, I have increased my health dramatically.
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I don't think anyone would disagree with that at all, least of all doctors.
I don't see how questioning or establishing the veracity of the claim that taking in acidic foods can remove important nutrients from the body all of a sudden equates to saying that you don't need a healthy diet, lots of veggies, and periodic exercise...