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BMI: Body Mass Index and the reification of a mathematical formula that makes health professionals look stupid and philosophically unscientific

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Health professionals:  Please, stop using BMI as a means of assessing the health of patients and clients.  Everyone can look at a person and see if he or she is overweight, obese, morbidly obese, or underweight and in need of some muscle and fat on their bones.  But when you apply arbitrary numbers into a formula, you’ve created an abstraction, and when you use it to assess whether a person is underweight, normal, overweight, or obese, you are guilty of reificiation (for those professionals who have never heard this word, please, it is a logical fallacy).

My BMI is 32.  I am thus obese, as you can see from my recent photo:

slimmer me

Oops.  I am not supposed to look like that.  Here is what I’m supposed to look like (slightly bigger than the guy two from the right):

It is time to dispense with BMI.  Stop using it because it makes you sound stupid, philosophically unsophisticated and intellectually lazy.  Is that what you want?

Sugar: The bitter truth, by Robert H. Lustig

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This is my counter to all my Facebook friends who share sugary recipes.  Dr. Robert H. Lustig is the intellectual heir Dr. John Yudkin, who proved the toxicity of sugar in early 1970s in his book Pure White and Deadly.  Sugar contributes to health problems like obesity, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, MS, mental problems including depression, and inflammation.  This is just the beginning of woes.

Do statin drugs contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease?

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As many of you know, my father disappeared last July and there is still no sign of him.  I wonder if my father, who suffered apparently from Alzheimers disease, was on statin drugs.  Tom Naughton has a very sad testimony on his blog:

My dad, who was on a high dose of Lipitor for two decades, started having occasional episodes of profound confusion and temporary memory loss in his early 60s (not much older than I am now), became increasingly confused in his late 60s, and was diagnosed with full-blown Alzheimer’s by age 72.  I can’t prove the Lipitor caused his condition, but knowing what I know now, let’s just say I don’t think we’re looking at a coincidence.  As far as I’m concerned, that @#$%ing drug robbed him of the chance to enjoy his retirement, work on his golf game, travel with my mom, see my girls grow up, etc.

This is not far-fetched. Memory loss is common enough with statin drug users and there is a rising epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease.  After reading Dr. Duane Graveline’s Lipitor Thief of Memory, I believe that statins can only make neurological problems worse–including memory loss and peripheral neuropathy.  Why?  Because statins block the production of cholesterol, but cholesterol is necessary constituent of a healthy brain.  Take away the cholesterol and destroy the brain.  David Perlmutter is another physician who has written a book, Grain Brain, that damns statins.  It is hard not to believe that statins are a tool of the enemy to destroy your brain.

“Come with me if you want to live!” Ketogenic diet is Kyle Reese for cancer patients

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Do you remember the scene in Terminator where Kyle Reese says to the terrified Sarah Conner, “Come with me if you want to live!”  Well, if we consider cancer to be a terminator, then wouldn’t it make sense to do nothing that would make the Schwarznegger monster stronger, like feed it the energy it requires to grow and to invade?  A new study shows that calorie and carbohydrate restriction and ketogenic diet (high fat, low carb) will enhance radiation therapy, giving the patient a fighting chance.  If you want to live, come with me.  Stop eating sugar and starches and stop feeding the Terminator.

Calories, carbohydrates, and cancer therapy with radiation: exploiting the five R’s through dietary manipulation

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