Dr Eric Bergs Mediterranean farce.

[Rob6868]

If your on or thinking of taking up the Mediterranean diet for your heart health .

Then check out Dr Eric Berg on YouTube.

Very surprising insight!

Makes you think!!! ..All the plant based foodies will be shouting at me now 😅😃

[Chappychap]

1. Why "Dr." Berg? On his web site he's described as a chiropractor, that's not a doctor in my book (or a biologist or a nutritionist) , but maybe in the US there's more latitude to call yourself whatever you like?

2. He earns his living selling diet formulations, to promote his business he needs to make loud and brash claims. That obvious vested interest screams to me to treat this guy with maximum scepticism.

3. As far as I'm concerned there's no "one size fits all" diet solution. We're all different, so we almost certainly need different diet solutions. About 20% of the population are genetically ill suited for high fat diets, the majority of the world's population are lactose intolerant (something we forget, as Europeans we're almost all genetic oddities with our extreme tolerance to cow's milk), then there are the people who can't digest wheat. I could go on but you get the picture, to blindly recommend any particular diet without a profound understanding of the individual is just nonsense.

4. Most people fail at diets. They don't stick to them once the initial rush of enthusiasm wears off. It seems to me that one overlooked criterion for a good diet would to find out if people are still on it after several years!

5. I detest the partisan attitude that accompanies most discussions of diet. It's like Brexit for the belly! All passionately held opinions and propaganda with zero rationale discussion or objective enquiry. At the end of the day most of us on this forum are in the same boat, we're trying to figure out the lifestyle changes necessary to buy ourselves a few more precious years of healthy life. There's no place in that for supporting a particular diet like it's a football team.

Anyhow, just my 2p's worth.

[Rob6868 in reply to Chappychap]

After all that

I agree! I was just putting it out there in regards to what he was saying.

Although I do find some of he's advice very intresting mainly because you can see the sense in it.

Particularly the ones regarding inflammation of the arteries etc

[Serg12 in reply to Chappychap]

I agree, I am concerned that there are a few people banging on about their particular faddish topic on this site. I am also concerned that they seem to put everything down to the one topic without regard to reasonable explanations.

[Midgeymoo17 in reply to Chappychap]

Why should he not be called 'Dr'. Doctor means far more than medical doctor. It just means subject specialist. Quite frankly (and not saying you did this) I find the insinuation that those who carry the title Dr through PhD are some how not real doctors extremely naive and think it is insulting. Their were probably many more doctors of physics who have contributed to your care than you think- and actually your cardiologist would probably not be able to do half they things did without a physicists input. `Had pacing wires in post bypass surgery? Lead developer of pacing was a 'Doctor" of electrical engineering. Had an CT-angiogram? Yep you guessed it- developed independently in th UK and South Africa by "Doctors" of engineering and physics respectively. How do you know he is not entitled to the title doctor?

New question: ever heard of Doctor of Nursing? Yes, these highly intelligent people will have added to your care. And probably to get that title instigated an initiative to improve dignity/ experience/ outcomes and then statistically reviewed it efficiency.

I am not saying they guy is not talking quatsch. Far from it. I think he is ridiculous- but it does not directly invalidate the title doctor.

Edit: If anything medical doctors actually the title much easier than in other specialities.

[jimmyq in reply to Chappychap]

Ah! Now I see why you don't like me banging on about a WFPB diet. In my defense, it is working for me so I want other people to have the benefit.

Trainee doctors get very little training on Nutrition so the only ones who know about diets are the ones who have taken it upon themselves to study the subject, e.g. Michael Greger the author of "How Not To Die".

[Serg12 in reply to jimmyq]

If you feel you are banging on about your topic (your words about yourself) then maybe drop the intensity a tad and embrace other topics as well.

[Hidden in reply to Serg12]

Yahoo

[Serg12 in reply to Hidden]

Other search engines are available

[Red18 in reply to jimmyq]

Vert true Jimmy. The guy is a genius

[Red18 in reply to jimmyq]

True

[stevejb1810 in reply to Chappychap]

Here here!

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

I think Eric Berg is just having a bit of fun! You can prove anything with flawed analysis!