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Originally Posted by photon
Hey look, a blog entry, with a disclaimer even!
Emphasis theirs.  So they don't even have anyone qualified to read the papers.
Anyway, the study isn't about alkaline diets, and taking a study about one thing and using the data to try and draw conclusions about something completely different is seriously flawed methodology.
If I went back and found out all the guys in the study had mustaches should I then draw the conclusion that mustaches improve health?
Remember the claim here is that diet can impact blood pH and that as a result nutrients can be removed from the body, and there's nothing in this study that supports any of that.
Lot more of what, studies that are misappropriated to support an idea that someone just happens to be trying to make money from?
Which guys? The people that wrote the study, or the website with no one in the medical profession?
For the people that wrote the two studies you mentioned, how do you know that their paper hasn't been refuted or complimented? Did you check the citations?
As for the website promoting the alkaline diet, they aren't actually doing any research so there's nothing to disprove or compliment, it's just (so far) unsubstantiated claims.
"My" doctors? I didn't quote any doctors. And where the people in the links that have been posted work is readily available via search if you are interested, though again not sure what relevance that has. |
http://www.pmri.org/index.html
Now you are just being difficult. These are Doctors just like the Doctors of which YOU came to the rescue for Troutman (Orac). They have been working studying the food properties in question. Just because it doesn't come from your beloved Orac and associates does not mean it is less important.
Yes, where do the Doctors you believe in work? Like Orac? Who does he work for? Does he have a bottom line $$$?
The Blog site was linked to show where I found the link to the study. That is the ONLY reason it was inserted there.
Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ornish received his medical training in internal medicine from the Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a B.A. in Humanities summa cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin, where he gave the baccalaureate address.