Sometimes it’s easier to be objective about things that are more distant from you. Case in point, check out this slurry of news articles from Russia’s Pravda about drinking alcohol. I found all of these on a page *filled* with similar articles on the subject. We’ll kickstart it with one about how “detox is a myth“:
One dietitian says the industry popularly known as “detoxification” is, in fact, a “marketing myth” designed to fleece gullible health fanatics out of millions of dollars spent on an array of tablets, teas, herbal remedies and other potions to try to remedy the effects of going over the top during the holidays.
Another scientist, a toxicologist, suggests that “detoxing” is a useless way to shed pounds picked up from lingering too long over the turkey and stuffing.
“The only thing that loses weight on a detox diet,” he said, “is your wallet.”
Cause hey, we don’t want mainstream medicine to lose it’s monopoly on fleecing the gullible, right? From here we also have these three jewels of corporate-sponsored objectivity:
- Brain health may be preserved by alcohol
- Regular drinking helps men to prevent heart diseases
- Moderate drinking may lower obesity risk
Seems like we ought to ask the simple question of: who is funding all of these studies to “prove” how healthy and virile it is for us to drink? Well, who do you think?
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I really can’t believe anything that pravda writes.
we are at the bottom of a well with corporate advertising poured down on our heads. any chance we have of physical, mental and spiritual health comes out of a determined personal journey. many of the “alternative” remedies that are shown in health magazines are the same consumer products in a different guise.
you can spin those medical studies any way you want. I think you just have to use common sence in the end….
You know what feeling I get? We’re on our own. Nowadays you can’t believe anything anymore the media pours down on us. We never know which forces, whose money are behind any news bit. Having taken the red pill makes you free from the madness called shared reality, but sometimes it makes you very, very lonely.
Heh heh. A friend of mine at work keeps beers in her file cabinet. Readily admits to having issues with alcohol (although, truth be told, she’s fairly well centered spiritually, a great artist, and pretty sharp at her job). She was thrilled to find out that her other vice,
caffeine, could counteract the toxic effects of alcohol on the liver.
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.
who is funding all of these studies to “prove†how healthy and virile it is for us to drink? Well, who do you think?
I admit it’s not much, but I do what I can.