Hi ,
As consumers we look to medical “experts” to advise us as to how to stay healthy. Unfortunately becoming an expert is not based on wisdom or knowledge, but on promoting a strong opinion and getting others to believe you. Strong opinions do not come from truth or wisdom, but from ignorance. Opinions are easier to create and get better support from the world than truth. Truth is very hard to come by, and the more you know, the more you know you don’t know. Eventually a real truth seeker gains the wisdom that you don’t really know anything for sure.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) time reveals the opinions that were bad ideas by the negative consequences they produce. Medicine and the health fields are particularly riddled with bad ideas. In my observation most of the time these bad ideas come from trying to create simple answers to incredibly complex problems. Our bodies are complex in the extreme. Trying to understand them is made doubly complex by the fact that we are all different from each other. Lay people can see this by just looking at people and seeing that our faces and bodies are all different. But science can’t deal with that. The process of scientific research requires the basic false assumption that we are 
all the same so that studies can be analyzed with mathematical statistics. Statistics only works on populations that are essentially the same. You have to compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges.
The problem is that people need information with which to make decisions. In the absence of good information, we will take bad information and mere opinions and believe them to be truth so we can make the choices to guide our actions. We can’t sit around waiting for history to show us what does not work, we need to do our grocery shopping today and that means choosing what to buy today.
Medicine is very much like religion – filled with dogma that is based on nothing other than everyone playing follow the leader without questioning the leader’s direction. For instance, 60 years ago someone decided arteries clogged with fat must come from eating fat. He (Ancel Keys) did a study and then deleted all the data that proved he was wrong and published it. Since no one knew what caused clogged arteries, they needed something to base actions on to address this problem. So even though the data was faked and a lie, everyone believed it because they had nothing better to go on. This produced a massive public relations promotion by the government and medicine to eliminate saturated fat from the American diet. This 
promotion has been accepted as “truth” for 60 years now with disastrous results. This one common lie has killed more Americans than all the wars we have ever fought.
So the question today is how many of these faulty medical beliefs are you still holding as truth? Here is a list of some of the biggest offenders:
Sugar is important energy food. – Wrong; sugar destroys your energy producing factories in the cells and creates metabolic syndrome that destroys your health.
You should eat many small meals a day. Wrong; many small meals a day blocks your liver from doing its job of breaking down the poisons in your blood. The liver needs 12 to 16 hours a day without food to do this.
Vegetable oil is better for you than butter. – Wrong; vegetable oil is a primary cause of inflammation in the body and should be avoided at all times.
Saturated fat causes heart disease. – Wrong; inflammation causes heart disease and saturated fat does not produce inflammation.
Whole grains are good for you. – Wrong; most people have some level of sensitivity to whole grains because of the natural plant insecticide in the outer layers of the whole grain. Plus whole grain baked products are full of rancid oils.
Soy is a health food. -Wrong; animals fed natural soy die. Soy has to be massively heat treated to break down the toxic elements in it. Even then it still creates many hormone disruptions in those who eat it.
Artificial sweeteners help you lose weight. – Wrong, they actually cause you to gain weight by messing up the weight regulation hormones and neurotransmitters.
Eggs are bad for your heart. – Wrong; there is no relationship between how many eggs you eat and heart disease.
The base of your diet should be carbs. – Wrong; there is no need for carbs in the human diet at all. High carb diets cause diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and so on.
You should drink 8 glasses of water a day. – Wrong; there is no evidence that chugging all that water does anything for anyone. Let your thirst be your guide.
Heartburn is caused by excess acid. – Wrong; the exact opposite 98% of the time – the acid is not strong enough to keep the valve at the top of the stomach closed.
Its ok to eat sugar if you are diabetic, just use more insulin. – Wrong; excess insulin is very damaging to the body so adding extra is a bad choice.
You have to use antibiotics for sinus infections. – Wrong; 95% of sinus infections are actually fungal infections and antibiotics make them worse.
The list goes on and on. We have to make decisions for our health somehow, but relying on our health care system and the government for advice is a bad choice. They are much better at saving us when we are poised on the edge of death. Their information on disease is much more reliable. Health is not what they are trained in. There are tons of health researchers in universities and research institutions that find out new stuff every day. But it takes about 30 to 40 years before this information makes it into the field of everyday medicine. So it is up to us to do our own examination of the available information on our health. We then have to compare that information to our own experience. We are all different from each other and have to expect that published health information may have no relevance to us as individuals.
Life is trial and error, and that includes discovering what works for our health. The only expert on us is us. Our experience tells us what works for us and what does not. Trust yourselves, you are wiser than you think.
Take care,
David