March 4, 2010

Well here is a long overdue installment of "BS In The News". During my late night searching I came across the following article. Now before you dive into it I am not bashing the content, but i am bashing how far behind the common sense curve some of these scientists can be.

Here is an example: "Four to five years ago, no one thought fat tissue matters for this stuff," adds Michigan's Lumeng, who studies the macrophage link. "There clearly are going to be anti-inflammatory therapies for diabetes coming out of the pipeline."

That was the last paragraph in the article and basically caused me to leave my jaw in my lap. To put things in perspective Lorain Cordain wrote "The Paleo Diet" in 2002, Barry Sears wrote "The Anti-inflammation Zone in 2005 and "Enter The Zone" in 1995; Packer and Colman wrote "The Antioxidant Miracle" in 1999 and then there was this teany, weany 7 year study in Finland published in a certain medical journal showing proper nutrition and exercise literally rejuvenates the dna of a cell. I don't consider myself all that edjamacated, but my simple math skills show me people were on to this prior to 4-5 years ago. But of course who am I?!

You can read this for yourself by clicking "BS In The News".

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