Mediterranean diet study deeply flawed
A new study published in the British Medical Journal reports that the Mediterranean diet "contributes to reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by up to 83 percent." The study uses a flawed "Mediterranean diet Scale" developed a few years ago to determine how the "Mediterranean" a person's diet. It is a nine-point scale, and the subjects receive one point for every aspect of their diet, which falls within the range. For example, a man who eats a certain amount of fruit per week fruit gets a point. If he eats an amount of whole grains above a certain amount he gets a whole grain. Those outside the scale resulting in a zero. Obtaining a nine: a person has a perfect "Mediterranean" diet. The scale is terribly flawed for four reasons:
First, it is itself only with the quantities of certain things, not the quality. So nutrient-poor economies, toxin-affected foods should be given the same score as the biological and nutritious food free of toxins. Secondly, Mediterranean diet study assumes that diet alone, or just a diet and exercise are the main factors in the better health and longer life of the Mediterranean people, but if other research is showing, Sunday is another factor. This is a problem because the Mediterranean diet study does not include the advice that more sunshine. Thirdly, with the exception of alcohol and saturated fats, the Mediterranean Diet Scale not on consumption or on the consumption of unhealthy food. It is therefore possible to have a perfect 9 on the Mediterranean diet scale, and still consume enormous quantities of cotton candy and Red Bull and every day. Fourth, subjects receive one point for consuming alcohol one to three glasses of alcohol for men and slightly less for women. That means that drinking alcohol at zero - for the choice, assuming that the rest of your diet is healthy - in the same manner as drinking a bottle of whisky per day. The top of this scale - three glasses per day - is enough for the development of chronic alcoholism. Also: The study presents Mediterranean diet as a drug that reduces the risk of diabetes. In fact, the Mediterranean diet is just closer to what people have eaten for millennia, and that our science fiction modern industrialized diet * * causes of diabetes and other diseases. When scientists discovered that children who suffer from growth retardation and nervous system damage from eating lead paint, they did not say that "switching to paint with lower amounts of lead can contribute to reducing damage to the nervous system by 83 percent." No, they reported that the leading causes of injury. The same is true for the industrialized diet: They cause diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, cancer and other maladies. |
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