Re: OT: Sturgeon General warns even moderate drinking causes cancer

On 2025-01-04 11:41 AM, Ed Stasiak wrote:

 

super70s
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Reminds me of back in the 70s and 80s when they were always coming out
with something causing cancer, a friend of mine would say "next they'll
be telling us fresh mountain water causes cancer."

 "Eggs will save you!"
"Eggs will kill you!"
repeat ad nauseam
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I remember hearing one expert insist that more than 150 milligrams of a particular vitamin - I don't recall which one - was bad for you while a few weeks later, a different expert insisted you needed AT LEAST 500 milligrams of that same vitamin to maintain good health. No one ever acknowledged that these experts had given this massively contradictory advice, let alone attempted to reconcile the advice to try to understand if there was ANYTHING useful that could be learned from these experts.
And speaking of Type 2 Diabetes, which I have myself, I well remember when the CTV science reporter had a story around 30 years ago about a doctor in Edmonton who was just starting to go into human trials with a drug that was practically guaranteed to cure Type 2 Diabetes. Then, a few weeks later, she had ANOTHER story about ANOTHER doctor in Edmonton who had another cure for Type 2 Diabetes that was just going into human trials, having aced the animal trials. Thirty years later, a cure for Type 2 diabetes seems to be every bit as elusive as it has always been.
I think the best course of action is to ignore any of the medical or scientific claims and predictions that you find in the popular press. The reporters in these publications know absolutely nothing about medicine or science and are probably just regurgitating promo literature from drug companies or their researchers, trying to drive ordinary consumers into behaviours that benefit the companies somehow, such as egg farmers trying to persuade you to buy eggs over some perceived health benefit found in some obscure science publication.
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Rhino