The Daily Mail finally catches up with what we have been pointing out for several years now; namely that the health mantras trotted out by the government, the NGOs and various fake charities is bullshit on steroids made up.
Eat five portions of fruit and veg a day, take 10,000 steps, drink eight glasses of water, brush your teeth twice and then sleep for eight hours.
They’re the mantras many of us follow in the belief they’re based on proper research.
Only if you are brain-dead and incapable of thinking for yourself. The rest of us were aware that this is a con from the beginning. There was no research. The alcohol guidelines were, for example, plucked from the ether. Likewise the absurd five a day nonsense. Then we have been bombarded by propaganda from vile little parasites such as the fake charities that preach about sugar and salt. These people like to create problems so that they can steal taxpayers’ money in order to “solve” them. Of course, they have to keep making up new scares in order to keep the gravy train running.
But are they? Recently a U.S. scientist revealed that the target of 10,000 steps a day, recommended by the NHS, isn’t based on science at all.
In fact, the number of steps seems to have been picked at random.
Sigh… You only just noticed?
Dig deeper and you’ll find quite a bit of the health advice churned out by health authorities is based on flimsy science, if any.
Again, we were saying this a decade ago. Do try to keep up.
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t know the five-a-day rule — a government recommendation since 2003.
The phrase ‘five-a-day’ was dreamt up by the California Department of Health Services in 1988 as a marketing tool to increase fruit and veg consumption.
The number wasn’t based on specific studies — it was just catchy.
Which is why anyone with a grain of critical thinking ability between their ears has been studiously ignoring it, which I have. It’s bullshit – much like the other health advice the government and its hangers-on keep parroting.
So what are we to make of a new study by Imperial College London which concluded ten portions is the goal?
This amount was found to reduce risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer much more significantly than five portions.
Professor Sanders says it is ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unrealistic’.
Indeed. Eat a balanced diet and ignore the health fascists. The rest of the article is a somewhat tardy debunking of the various mantras peddled by the charlatans in public health – such as how much water we should drink (hint: if you are thirsty, drink, if not, don’t) and how much exercise we should take. I don’t count the amount of steps I take in a day and don’t plan to start. And I certainly don’t plan to count calories.
Most experts agree that the recommendation for eating 2,000 calories if you’re a woman and 2,500 calories if you’re a man are generalisations not supported by evidence.
That pretty much sums up the public health racket in its entirety. Time to stop funding them.
Chips are veg and beer is mostly water. The 10,000 steps are the walk to the pub and back.
See also a new report that reducing your salt consumption is more dangerous than previously thought.
Will try to google, but do you have the link?