Deliberate lies about supplements for heart health....Today's post:  Wednesday, 5-30-2018

It’s easy to lie to the public about health issues.

You do a study that leaves out anything that proves your lie wrong.

You put a headline on your study results that says the lie you want to say.

Of course, your study was of something else instead. But your headline is what people read!

Question:

Are there supplements that effectively prevent heart attacks and strokes.

There are indeed.

Of course it also helps if you stop eating and drinking heart attack starters and stop taking drugs or using tobacco products that harm your heart or trigger heart attacks.

And, research shows that eating a lot of organic vegetables and fruit and doing the right kind of exercise each week helps too.

But there are a set of supplements that can cut your heart attack risk by more than two to one in just weeks that you can add to that! 

(See our post:  Fast Heart Protection without drugs…. Tuesday, 1-9-2018.  It’s one of several that we’ve done on those supplements.)

So, how can you fool the public into NOT believing that is possible?

We know exactly how because it’s just now being done:

It’s in today’s Google Health News and was released recently in Medical News Today as: 

"Heart health: Supplements don't work, with one exception:"

Did they study the supplements that do work or compare people who take those to people who do not?

Of course not!

But that is how they deliberately worded their headline.

What did they study?

The real study was:

“Possibly accurate meta-analysis of varying studies found that just taking modest amounts of standard vitamins did not have significant heart protective effects. Folic acid did show some such effect though.”

How can a truthful headline be made of that?

Preliminary survey of mixed studies found that just taking a multivitamin by itself was not enough for heart protection.

THAT is true since that is what they did.

Does the actual study support the headline used:

“Heart health: Supplements don't work…”

No.

Worse, since there ARE supplements that are quite protective it’s totally false.

What to do when this kind of fake information is passed on in headlines?

Unfortunately, assume the headline is a lie since that seems usually to be the case.

Then, check out what was actually studied and find what research has been done on things that do work.

Most people don’t have time to do that.

But this shows that if you don’t have the time to do that, it’s likely that a headline like this that slams supplements is a deliberate lie of this kind.