Hippocrates said "let food be thy medicine" but Medscape said "Food as medicine doesn't work"
Medscape wants you to believe that food has nothing to do with your health.
Apparently, food has nothing to do with health.
According to this February 22, 2024, Medscape article headline, changing your diet away from processed foods will only lead to weight gain.
Mainstream Health wants you sick. They believe the answer to health is in a pill, not in food, exercise, or sunlight.
Read on to see the type of foods they gave the participants that were considered healthy, and share your thoughts on whether the foods given to participants were healthy.
A December 2023 paper written by authors with no nutritional background designed a study set up to fail.
They provided the ingredients for 10 meals to patients with diabetes and food insecurity, including whole grains, fruit, vegetables, lean protein, low-fat dairy, salad dressing, cereal, brown rice, and bread.
Participants had to have an A1C equal to or greater than 8% and self-identified as living with food insecurity. They were drawn from urban and rural areas of the mid-Atlantic region that were also part of the health care system.
The control group was a population that did not receive any food items but did receive the “standard medical health care.”
349 participated, and outcomes were monitored at the six-month and one-year mark.
Results suggested that A1C was similar for both groups, and there was no significant difference in the two groups for TC, triglycerides, BP, and fasting glucose.
The treatment arm gained more weight than the control arm.
Why the Study Failed to Find Any Differences
I cannot see the complete study, only the abstract, so some of my comments below may be addressed in the paper.
They gave the participants food to create 10 meals per week. They DID NOT give them 10 meals.
First, how do we know they used the food for themselves? If they are faced with food insecurity, is it possible they gave this food away to other family members who need to eat?
Were they too tired to prepare any meals using this food? They did receive some nutritional consults, but do they have a working stove or appliances or the energy to attempt to prepare food or meals they are unfamiliar with?
What about ethnicity? Perhaps these are not foods they typically eat in their culture.
Ten meals per week? Do you eat only ten meals per week? What about all the other meals of the week? What about snacks? If you ate ten healthy meals but the rest was junk, would you see any changes in type 2 diabetes, lipids, and weight?
Also, what the mainstream considers healthy and what a holistic nutritionist considers healthy are different.
The list said they provided bread, salad dressing, low-fat dairy, whole grains, and cereals.
Almost all salad dressings are inflammatory because of the oils, such as soybean, corn, or vegetable oil.
Cereal? Show me one mainstream cereal not loaded with sugar and refined flour.
Whole grains? What was this? Was it oatmeal packets loaded with sugar and additives, steel-cut oats, or rice other than the brown rice provided? We do not know.
Bread? Processed bread is void of fiber, protein, and other nutrients and will cause a blood sugar spike due to the refined carbs (especially if consumed alone without protein, fiber, or fat). Synthetic nutrients are added back in because the food is so overly processed.
Low-fat dairy-why, not whole-fat dairy? Low-fat dairy products have more sugar or artificial sugar added, both of which can contribute to gut dysbiosis and type 2 diabetes. Conventional dairy products, such as mainstream yogurt brands, are not only loaded with real or fake sugar but also with colorings or dyes.
We have no clue if the participants ate any of the food provided.
We also have no clue what the rest of their diet was like.
I am uncertain how bottled salad dressing, low-fat dairy, and cereal will help a person with type 2 diabetes, and from the study's results, it looks like I am right.
This study was a failure right from the time they created the design.
But do not worry; your doctor will use this study’s results to encourage you to “just take a pill” and not worry about eating healthy.
What about you? Do you consume low-fat dairy products such as low-fat yogurt or skim milk? Do you eat any cereal or bottled salad dressings?
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Participants had to be full blown diabetic.
Just part of their food provided, and not the greatest food choices at that.
The study was obviously designed to fail.
An honest study might have used people who were pre-diabetic, and provided all of their food.