The 10 Laziest People Ever – A Gallery
by Anorak | 18th, July 2011
ANORAK is in Spain. It’s hot. Very. Very. Hot. The heat makes you lazy. How lazy? We hereby present the 10 Laziest People Ever. You live longer by being lazy. Forget that guff about the Mediterranean diet prolonging life. Longevity is all about doing as little as possible for as long as possible…
July 18th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Did you know that Mediterranean diet nonsense is just that – nonsense? One of the most egregious bits of manipulation/fraud via selective data presentation ever. Worthy of a climatologist it was.
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Ancel Keys looked at saturated fat consumption vs heart attack rates for a number of countries and came up with a classic near straight line graph showing the higher the rate of saturated fat consumption, the higher the heart attack rate. Trouble is, he carefully chose the countries whose data would form a nice straight line when graphed. If he had used all the data available and included them in his graph, there would be no nice line that fitted his theory, just a random scatter of points.
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The most comprehensive review of all the scientific literature on cholesterol found that there was absolutely no correlation between cholesterol and heart disease – none, nil, nada.
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What does the medical profession do? Ignores the scientific evidence and merrily keeps on prescribing statins to reduce cholesterol levels. Great for big Pharma profits. A few years ago, they even revised downwards the levels of cholesterol deemed ‘normal’ thus significantly increasing statin prescription and big Pharma revenues. What a coup that was…. ‘The cholesterol guidelines were revised downward to 2000 by a committee of 9 doctors, 8 of whom were receiving money from statin drug companies. There was no science behind this revision. (1 ) (2) (3)’
http://truemedmd.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/cholesterol-lowering-statin-drugs-for-women-just-say-no-by-jeffrey-dach-md-2/
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