Food Isn’t Medicine
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Anyway, whether he is correct scientifically, my main critique would be directed to his mentality and psychology - in which he treated the matters narrowly where the topics didn't get the detailed and elaborated explanations they deserve. The case is mostly problematic in psychiatry, where for example some psychiatric drugs may have symptoms that are severe as the disease itself, like suicidal feelings as a symptom for some antidepressants ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...)... In elk geval, Wolrich probeert het verband tussen gewicht en diabetes vervolgens (dit doet hij trouwens ook bij de link met kanker) toe te schrijven aan de negatieve effecten van gewichtsstigma en body shaming en de stress en discriminatie die hieruit volgen. Zeer belangrijke thema's, maar een beetje kort door de bocht voorgesteld als je het mij vraagt. Besides me having a problem with its psychology, scientifically, as mentioned - medicines are normally used chiefly in treating symptoms. But more than that - the author ignores the side effects of most medicines and their low probability in curing diseases completely only by themselves. There’s also trigger warnings included by the author which is fab, and it’s written with so much respect, delicacy and sensitivity as well. It’s certainly not an on the pedestal account and derogatory to anyone who follows any type of lifestyle or diet. You don’t get a dressing down for being a victim of diet scams or for diets you follow but instead, replaces new foundations and builds you up in a friendly and informative way.
The fact that food isn’t medicine is not a bad thing by any means; it’s actually a really good thing that it’s not! Our health is too often sold as something we have complete control over, and treating food as medicine only serves to encourage this rhetoric of personal responsibility. We need to stop shaming people for what they eat and implying that an illness was their fault for not making better choices. Some of his claims are also a bit self-contradicting and misleading. For example, in his response to the claim that "vegetable oils are toxic" the author shortly replies in saying that some of the components of vegetable oils are omega 6 and omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are proved to be beneficial in brain and heart health, and mentions the positive health effects of canola oil and fish oil (not even a vegetable oil), that both contain these fats. First things first. As the author himself states, he is not a qualified doctor nor a qualified nutritionist. He's just a few years into his courses! Yet somehow thinks he knows more than everyone else. And, whatever science they've applied, is simply wrong.He forgot his own earlier writings, in which he stated that we should talk about foods and not nutrients, while unsaturated fats and specifically polyunsaturated fats are highly inclined to oxidation while heated, and also that vegetable oils contain a small amount of tran fats ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23744... , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... ). Polyunsaturated fats and especially the essential ones (those that our body cannot create by itself - omega 3 and 6) are widely accepted as healthy in moderate amounts, especially if we consume them with antioxidants, but vegetable oils might be problematic in larger quantities, and since that they are very abundant in almost all food products in the industrial world - I fear it is very easy to get too much of them.
In my humble opinion there is one simple truth that I believe would solve a lot of the difficulty sifting through the misinformation when it comes to nutrition: food isn’t medicine*. Instead of leaving the "fault" of someone from negativity, either society or himself, the author idly keeps the notion of fault repressed and "frees" it from the reader.
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No, no and absolutely not - NHS doctor and nutritionist Joshua Wolrich is on a mission to set the record straight. Basically the above should suffice, but to add that Mr Wolrich adds nothing new, has no special insight to share, just more opinion and belief... and of course... using intuition to choose which foods are most suitable for you. Funny how instantly intuition is developed, and with such accuracy. A lot of the "good advice" in "Food Isn't Medicine" is common-sense knowledge, and there were entire chapters (like the one on food and cancer) where I felt like I wasn't learning anything new. But then a lot of the myths debunked in the book are considered common-sense knowledge too, and I previously believed some them and am grateful to learn better.
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