CAM includes aspects of diet. Diet can include paying attention to sugar. No one quite understands how the relationship between sugar and cancer works: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-nine-year-study-has-just-shown-how-sugar-exacerbates-cancer … What is CAM and what is “real” medicine is not distinct.
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Replying to @usnehal @AlanLevinovitz and
That is not to say that a special diet helps after cancer happens. This gets into that:https://www.mskcc.org/blog/no-sugar-no-cancer-look-evidence …
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Replying to @usnehal @AlanLevinovitz and
It is modern diets and lifestyles that are killing us. We needed research to tell us that the “a Mediterranean diet”, a traditional diet, is “medically approved” for health. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/mediterranean-diet/art-20047801 …
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Replying to @usnehal @AlanLevinovitz and
Sounds like some “quack” touting a panacea. “The Mediterranean diet is also associated with a reduced incidence of cancer, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Women who eat a Mediterranean diet..may have a reduced risk of breast cancer.” Oops. I mean Mayo, not a quack.
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Replying to @usnehal @AlanLevinovitz and
Phew, now can have olive oil without being excommunicated from science: “In fact, a meta-analysis of more than 1.5 million healthy adults demonstrated that following a Mediterranean diet was associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular mortality as well as overall mortality”
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This conversation is lurching from one kind of claim to another. I'm sympathetic to people who want to relax the stranglehold scientific epistemology has on dietary choices. But talking about this and COIs and IVF as CAM conflates and oversimplifies many, many different ideas. 1/
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @usnehal and
Like the idea of "natural" with which it often appears, CAM is a single term that stands in for distinct goals & beliefs: 1. Patient empowerment 2. Attention to lifestyle 3. The idea we are "inherently" healthy 4. Respect for indigenous cultures 5. Belief in an Edenic past 2/
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @usnehal and
CAM is a single term that stands in for distinct goals & beliefs: 1. Patient empowerment 2. Attention to lifestyle 3. The idea we are "inherently" healthy 4. Respect for indigenous cultures 5. Belief in an Edenic past WITH RESPECT, THIS IS BS!
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Replying to @EdzardErnst @usnehal and
What's BS? The ideas? The goals? The fact that CAM stands in for these? I'm well aware of the problems with these (3 and 5, say) but I think it's reasonable to say that CAM tries to bind them all up under a single label.
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It's what I like to call misinformed consent with a dollop of paternalism.
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