Malignant Medical Myths: Why MEdical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect Yourself
Infinity Publishing - Infinity Publishing
Release date: 2006-01-30
Paperback
Author: Joel M Kauffman Phd
Medicine: General Issues, Medical errors, United States, Medical, Medical / Nursing, Family & General Practice, Medical / Family & General Practice, Reference, Family & Health: General
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Malignant Medical Myths: Why MEdical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect Yourself
Date undefinedI haven't read this book but have a hard time trusting what is presented inside when the cover picture stands out as contrived and myth-like itself. With a device to measure blood pressure in the background, a lab-coated villain stands with a needlessly large and empty syringe posed at a random place on a patient's forearm. Note that the syringe holding hand is gloved but the one that touches the point where needle penetrates skin is not!(Perhaps to hide the fact that there is no needle attached?) So is this supposed to be a shout-out to us that the medical profession is sucking us dry as we lie around in calm submission?
Don't get me wrong. I have no desire to see this scene portrayed realistically or graphically on the cover. And I DO believe that we, and sometimes the medical community, have been sold a bill of no-goods. This is just a heads up thought. When you have a message to send, why spend the time, money and energy to publish a book and then cover it with a picture that keeps some people from ever opening it up to have a look. If you ever publish, get a better editor.
Malignant Medical Myths: Why MEdical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect Yourself
Date undefinedAN "I HATE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES" DIATRIBE
1. In order to stress his love obsessive love affair with fats, Kauffman unfairly demonizes all carbohydrates by lumping the good (raw plant foods) and the bad (refined and processed plant foods) together and never admitting to, or pointing out, the difference. That people who consume 25% of their calories in sugar are not going to avoid degenerative diseases is an obvious and well-known fact. Even Dr. Robert Atkins, perhaps the world's premiere high-fat diet advocate of our time, said (in DR. ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION):
a. "Sugar has no nutritional value and is directly harmful to your health. Despite vociferous attempts to defend it, there are hundreds of studies that clearly show how deadly its effects can be."
b. "Sugar is a metabolic poison."
c. "And sugar is the Western world's most frequently consumed carcinogen."
d. "So you plainly see that sugar has been shown epidemiologically and just-plain-logically to be a strong candidate to be the principal dietary cause of cancer, perhaps a much stronger candidate than fat."
e. "As a dozen studies report, there is solid evidence that it is sugar or refined starch that may be a main cause of colon and rectal cancer."
Despite being aware of such revealing comments by a high-fat advocate like Dr. Atkins, to make his point, Kauffman still refused to separate sugar and other refined carbohydrates from the good carbs. THIS CAN ONLY BE CALLED EXTREME DECEIT.
2. This book is poor in truthfulness in other ways. For example, on page 58, Kauffman says, "...until his [Atkins'] death from trauma..." The actual cause of Atkins' death was never made public since there was either no autopsy, or if there was the results were never made public. This was well-publicized in the media at the time.
3. Further, this book lousy in giving all the facts. Kauffman never mentions vegetarian pioneers like Pythagoras (94), Sir Isaac Newton (85), John Harvey Kellogg, MD (96), Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, MD (87), Norman W. Walker, PhD (99) or Bernard Jensen, DC (93) - their ages at death are in parentheses. Except for Dr. Julian Whitaker, he never mentions Nathan Pritikin and his followers like John McDougall and Neal Barnard. Any reference to Dean Ornish is noticeably absent.
Going a step further, the fact that our Late Paleolithic ancestors ate a moderately low-fat diet (C=46%, F=21%, P=33%) is never mentioned by Kauffman. To see S. Boyd Eaton, MD et al.'s original paper (and be able to download it) about this, go to Google and enter the triad
Once more, with regard to honesty, in the Myth 10 chapter on cancer, Kauffman draws heavily from Ralph Moss' books; rather, it should be said, he cherry picked from Moss. Kauffman evidently never gave an iota of thought to including anything about Max Gerson, MD, which, in all fairness, should have been done as Moss felt it to be extremely important.
4. The lapse of good science by Kauffman in the more than occasional total SNAFU, like Table 3-1, is extremely disappointing. Table 3-1 purports to show that high cholesterol makes a human more immune to malaria by comparing children's all-cause death rates in Ghana, where malaria is epidemic, with children's all-cause death rates in the U.S., where there is virtually no malaria.
5. On the positive side, this book is good in pointing out how drugs are abused, misused, and overused. In addition, this book rightly emphasizes how the ACS, NCI, other large national organizations, and corporate entities, especially drug companies, regularly lie to the public about progress and cures.
Overall, the negatives win by a very wide margin.
In summary, this book has left me with the conclusion that the book is scientific trash and I would not recommend it to anyone.
Malignant Medical Myths: Why MEdical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect Yourself
Date undefinedJust some of the information Kauffman provides on blood pressure myths:
A. Did you know that the higher blood pressure reading should be 100 + your age? Neither did I.
B. Older women get higher blood pressure than older men, but live longer nevertheless and there's no need for medication unless blood pressure exceeds 180 (and even then the medication is not really of much help compared to the nutritional supplementation of magnesium, vitamin C and omega 3 EFAs). This is NOT what we've been told - if we had, pharmaceutical companies would make billions less each year.
C. When allowance for age is made, less than 5% of older people should be treated for high blood pressure (and even then the medication is not really of much help, especially compared with the benefits of nutritional supplementation of magnesium, vitamin C and omega 3 EFAs).
D. Conventional advice about exercise and diet does not work, after which they give you the drugs.
E. Diuretics: everyplace you might search, internet or otherwise, is unanimous that diuretics are beneficial for high blood pressure. Kauffman shows that the maximum possible benefit is 1.5 days extra of life after 5 years of taking diuretics! Yet diuretics have awful side effects; that's why you find strong warnings against taking diuretics for weight loss purposes.
F. Vasodilators, Beta-Blockers, Calcium Channel Blockers, ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensiin Receptor Antagonists are all proven to either be more dangerous than beneficial or to be working only because, despite terrible side effects, they help with retention of potassium and/or magnesium. Why not just take magnesium and potassium supplements? Oh yes, of course, because drug companies do not profit from nutritional supplements.
There's so much more. There's no real evidence that moderate drinking of red wine is beneficial yet the far superior anti-oxidant capability of 1 gram of Vitamin C goes unremarked; cancer cure rates have not changed much in the last forty years, the "success rates" merely refer to a 5-year survival rate but with terrible quality of life after chemotherapy and the like. Perhaps worst of all: for over a decade there has been a quick and simple blood test for many types of cancer, costing just $200, (the Anti-Malignin Antibody in Serum (AMAS) test) but most doctors don't know of it!
The book is not an easy read, but is so loaded with useful information you will constantly refer to it. If you care about your health, or that of those around you, this is a must read book.
