Recently I found such a film while traveling the Internet. It's called: "Clean Eating - Dirty Truth"
Together with Giles, a PhD in molecular genetics at the University of Cambridge, Horizon, a veteran BBC programme, used science to unilaterally crush influencers, scammers and their marketing scams in 1 hour, including "detox" and "detoxification" diet therapy, gluten-free diets and acid-base physiques, which have been common pseudoscience concepts in recent years.
Gluten free diet scam
What is gluten? Gluten is part of the skin of wheat, rural people know that in the process of wheat processing into flour will produce part of the bran, generally used as chicken, duck, goose and pig feed, and in fact, this layer of substance, although not delicious, will also affect the whiteness of flour, but contains a large number of trace elements, is beneficial to the human body, the general flour will always leave a little, such as steamed buns, buns, etc. contain a little, gluten-free diet in the past two years in the country is also very popular, Weibo casual search is a lot.
But in fact, a gluten-free diet is actually a treatment for people with "gluten allergies". How many of these people are there? From the whole world can not see 1%, and it is more likely to be allergic to Westerners ... Have you already smelled a hoax? What's even more comical is that those who promote the "gluten-free diet" will blame all human diseases on "bran".
Shocked, eating a loaf of bread can make people hormonal imbalance, muscle loss, trigger inflammation, increase the burden on organs... This kind of scam must be deterred! As soon as our bald Giles appeared, we found Professor Davis, the founder of Gluten Free Diet. Professor Davis said: "Since humans began to eat grains, health levels have declined." And he thinks, "Gluten hurts the body's own immune system."
Dr. Giles immediately questioned this: "My wife is an autoimmunologist, and I have never heard of such a theory." Davis was very confident at this time, and this theory was supported by Professor Fasano, a top expert at MIT!
Ran Goose was immediately punched in the face by the Buddha-figure:
It's embarrassing...
But do you think debunking a scam is all it takes? No, the next one is better than the other.
2. Eating meat is a harmful scam
Giles first visited Ella, an Ins influencer blogger, and listened to her share her experience of becoming healthy after starting to eat vegetarian. She told Giles that everything came from the book "China Study."
Yes, you read that right, the book is called China Study "China Survey" and it sells very well on Amazon.
The authors surveyed 6,500+ people in rural China and came to the conclusion that eating meat is harmful to health, and humans should be vegetarian. The conclusion was so shocking that Giles immediately went to visit Professor Colin, the author of the book, to find out how he came to this conclusion. It turned out that Colin had done an animal experiment in which he injected the mice with cancer to make them all sick, and then began to inject casein in different amounts. Finally, he observed that 20% of the mice ingested by casein died, and 5% of the mice that ingested did not die.
So he speculated from mice to people, from casein to meat, ingesting more and dying faster, so eating meat is harmful to health. What a brilliant reasoning. (Vomit!) But here's the problem: the results of animal experiments can never be directly counted on people, which is scientific common sense. Under Giles's continued questioning, Colin changed his face three times, and finally changed his mouth: "I'm just describing a concept, and it doesn't hurt to be vegetarian anyway!"
And thin mud Oh, but this is not the most infuriating, the following is really making money and killing people.
3. Acid-base physique scam
The term acid-base physique is too hot in China. You can see such as: acid-base physique anti-cancer, acid-valence physique regulation of boys and girls, food treatment to regulate acid-base physique and so on.
But in fact, this theory was first initiated from abroad, and his founder was named Robert.
This person wrote 4 books on "acid-base constitution" in one go, and he claimed that the pH of the human body can be adjusted, and when the physique is acidic, it is easy to get sick, and after the acid-base balance can cure all diseases. It sounds like a lot of sense, but if you search for the four words "acid-base constitution" in the medical authoritative database, you will find that you can't find it at all.
Because whether in the nutrition or medical community, there is no concept of "acid-base constitution". Although it is not scientific, it can't stand Robert's traffic. After his popularity came, he began to circle money, and he started a treatment business in the "acid and alkali farm" he founded, persuading cancer patients to give up chemotherapy and choose his "alkaline treatment" method. The principle of this treatment is to put alkaline baking soda in the bottle during the infusion and treat the cancer by neutralizing the "acidity" of the body. Absurdly, for patients with advanced cancer who have nowhere to go to the hospital, "acid-base treatment" is their life-saving straw. According to statistics, 81 cancer patients have come to his "acid-base farm" for treatment, and if these people had not delayed treatment because of the acid-base scam, 15% of them could have been cured, but none of them survived in the end. What does Robert say about that? It's their choice.
It's disgusting. The good news is that in November 2018, Robert was sentenced to a $105 million fine for allegedly practicing medicine illegally. During the trial, he admitted that not only did he not have any scientific training, but even the diploma was bought for money.
The pseudoscientific theory of "acid-base constitution" was thus overturned......... Part of it. After watching this film, I searched for "acid and alkali physique" and found that there are still Internet celebrities peddling this concept.
Homemade handmade enzymes regulate the constitution and prevent cancer.
Not only can it neutralize and balance, but it can also call out a "weak alkaline constitution" to prevent diseases in advance.
My aunt turned 42 when she was 62 years old.
My aunt became a young woman when she was 40 years old this year.
It's really hard for you, drink some fruit rotten juice to rejuvenate, modern medicine is not going to give you a prize? There is also a wheat bran-free diet, and a casual search can see that there are a bunch of common symptoms listed by Internet celebrities for you to check yourself.
Anything, any concept, as long as it enters the business world, has the potential to be packaged as a tool to fool consumers. A sad fact is that popular science cannot fight "capital". The above-revealed "acid-base physique" theory has been at large for more than a decade, mostly by scientific researchers to dispel rumors, and many by popular science authors to expose the black. But why was there a problem with being pulled out last year? Because before this, the pseudo-concept of "acid-base physique" can make money, as long as it can make money, it has the value of existence. Think of those people in your ticket circle who sell "cleansing", "fat tigers", "fasting juices", "enzymes" and make a fortune to buy cars and buy houses. They exploit the popular desire for health, anxiety about body shape, hype up the concept of pseudoscience, and use flowery packaging to cover up untenable ridiculous principles. They use pseudoscience to manipulate and manipulate those who are most in need. They are liars, murderers, executioners, scrooges. At the end of the whole documentary, Giles says this.
The world has been divided into two, one is about science, about evidence and objectivity.
The other is a world of belief-driven pseudoscience, in which individual examples prove conclusions. Which one will you choose?
Author: Shu Gui K
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