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Now, did he have some good points? Sure he did, though his points were not based on sound scientific evidence or comparisons that would accurately counter-balance the claims. As you point out how he was trying to intend to say “people who do it hardcore show signs of heart disease”… which yes, presents a valid point. Though.. what about those who don’t do it as “hardcore”? People with long-term stress also show signs of heart disease or increase in risk factors. So does that mean, living causes heart disease?

If his true intent was to challenge the “benefits” of cardio, then he should have done so in a much more responsible manner, for an individual of his stature. Now low fat on the other hand, has been shown to be negative to health in solid scientific fact. At this point, its a marketing gimmick.

In regards to your opinion on long distance running… I can see your point, but what about those in Africa who do it daily to survive? Would you say they are not designed to do that? Though to counter that argument… We complain of pain… but what about the logic, and emerging science that our shoes have caused many lower back and joint problems, because shoes are un-natural to our natural walking, and in supposed fact, almost everyone walks incorrectly. Now if you run incorrectly, one should expect to feel pain. If you run correctly… what would that change?

To further that, you could say… well i tried it the other way, and it still hurt. Well, logically yes, because the body has to now adjust to the change in mechanics of how you are moving which could take some time. So again, you’re at this crossroads.

In conclusion, as even mentioned in this post, he made some points that are worth further investigation… but is not solid evidence for what he claims. Though for his stature, and how he presents himself, his claims could be mi-strewn as medical fact, which is a very risky.

I think we have to cut the doctor some slack. His attitude is that he’s going to a lot of trouble and putting in a lot of work to do the blog, for free, as an act of generosity for people who are interested in the info. He doesn’t have time for people who respond to this gift by saying “Maybe you’re wrong.”

This would be horribly rude if he were at a
cocktail party. But this is his blog, and his attitude is that if someone wants to argue with him, they should take a hike. I can understand that. You wouldn’t tell the host of a cocktail party that maybe his hordoevres will cause food poisoning!

Also, he’s writing “cardio causes heart disease” with some sense of irony, not as a strong claim. He’s saying “for crying out loud, here’s the most ‘heart health’ thing you can do, according to our intellectual masters, and yet people who do it hardcore show signs of heart disease.”

he’s saying that just maybe the “cardio” propGanda is as false as the “healthy low fat” propaganda that has damaged the health of millions.

My gut feeling is that long distance running is so unnatural, so foreign to the experience of our species (or any other species), that it is most likely pathogenic. For a second opinion, ask your knees.

Thanks for the comment, and great points! I didn’t even think about Uganda and the connection with the American political / religion sect known as “The Family”. A great example of the gross violation of Church and State.

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment – Proposition 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChanTFSmqao (good video)

- Chris

Check out Rachel Maddow’s report at MSNBC. It’s so intense.

Also Keith Olbermann did a “special comment” on prop 8 in cali. it was excellent as well.

Thanks for sharing your response. Its disappointing to see that the doctor decided to call you a sheep and remove your comments. It seems like his status as a doctor should be re-evaluated by the respective licensing board.

Doctors who seem close-minded like that concern me as to what their impact is in our already fragile health care industry.

He responded fairly tartly that I was a sheep, should work for the government, etc. It’s on his site, you can look at it if you like.

I then tried to clarify my position a bit but he deleted my response. Then he banned me from his site. And turned on comment moderation to prevent, presumably, such alternate views as mine from ever being expressed in his sandbox agaiin.

I am a bit flabbergasted by it all — shouldn’t the self-described iconoclastic and alternative be if anything unusually open to contrary viewpoints? It makes me wonder if such brittleness extends to his interpretations of data, with any that does not bolster his pet theories deleted and then banned from his mind.

Anyway, my response was (with apologies for absent context:)

Good lord, surely Mr. Gautama also has something reproachful to say about such angry outbursts. In any case my message was less to you than to those who had just read your post.
Put too simply: In matters where we know little, fear of “being a sheep” can put one in greater danger than submitting to the consensus of experts. I did not mean to place the study you brought to our attention in such low company as known crazies like vaccine alarmists — they simply do an excellent job of illustrating my point.

This is good data. Perhaps more will come to bolster it. Just as likely the opposite will happen, or these results will be attributed to a cause that will surprise us all and vindicate aerobic exercise in the process. So, given a choice between trusting my life to a single study from one set of doctors or the combined wisdom of the entire medical field, for me it’s not even close. By all means hurl more invective at me as a result.

The above is a reconstruction from memory of the post you mysteriously deleted. Is no debate allowed here? Are all meant to kneel before you and lap up your wisdom uncritically? How very like a traditional doctor you turn out to be after all.