Thanks, George. I'd not heard of Tom Naughton before. He's pretty
good. My doctor should attend his lecture. He only knows what his drug
reps tell him and wouldn't recognize a statistically significant number
if it bit him.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/29/2011 2:17 PM, George Themelis wrote:
> I am going back to the totally out of topic discussion about cholesterol and
> heart attacks. I found this video, from a presentation by comedian Tom
> Naughton, on the 4th Annual Low-Carb Cruise. Tom is the writer/direction of
> the movie FatHead (which I just got in the mail but have not had a chance to
> watch it).
>
> This is a long (45 minutes) but entertaining presentation, which for me
> could be a lecture in a university on observational and clinical studies.
> Many of our beliefs about the effect of cholesterol, fat, salt, etc., comes
> from news titles which, in tern, are inspired from actual observational and
> clinical studies. Tom explains what this means. What are observational
> studies and what are clinical studies? How to critically look at these
> studies and draw your own conclusions, instead of depending on reporters to
> summarize the conclusions of the study with a catchy title like "Eating eggs
> will make you fat" etc.
>
> I am sure you will enjoy this presentation and become a bit more skeptical
> about what conventional medical science says we should be doing, knowing how
> this advice was derived.
>
> Here is the link to the YouTube video:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0
>
> George
>
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