For example, Master Lin Haifeng, who practiced the "fasting and detoxicating for health" therapy, devoted his whole life to promoting his fasting and health therapy, and publicized that rice is poisonous and can stay away from diseases if he doesn't eat rice. Drinking more fruit and vegetable juice can supplement nutrition. At first glance, his theory seems to have some truth. But he refused to go to the hospital for treatment because of food poisoning and lost his life early. This has to make us reflect on how much "health knowledge" is endangering our health.
Can't eat rice
Nowadays, many middle-aged and elderly people suffer from diabetes. How to treat diabetes is what many people are eager to know. These people use people's fear of diabetes to publicize that sugar in rice will be the main cause of diabetes. It is said that eating a bowl of rice equals eating a bowl of sugar.
Many old people who don't know the truth are easily intimidated by such remarks because of their lack of scientific knowledge, and never eat rice again. In fact, although rice contains sugar, it will never cause disease. Unless you have severe diabetes, you need to eat less rice and more coarse grains to control sugar. Healthy people don't need to avoid eating at all. And rice is also the source of our daily energy, and we are hungry without eating a meal.
Drinking fruit juice can cure diseases.
Fruit is a healthy food in our mind, and fruit juice is naturally a healthy drink that many people like. By exaggerating the efficacy of fruit juice, it is completely pseudoscience to publicize that fruit juice can cure all diseases.
Fruit juice does have certain nutritional and health care value, but its essence is still just food. Food can't replace medicine. Drinking fruit juice to cure diseases is naturally false propaganda.
Some articles also suggest drinking seven to eight glasses of juice every day. Fruit juice can promote the secretion of gastric acid. Drinking so much will not only lead to the corrosion of the stomach, but also seriously affect the digestive function. Moreover, fruit juice contains sugar, and drinking so much fruit juice can also lead to the onset of diabetes.
When we watched TV as children, we should have seen many health care experts selling products. Their consistent arguments are "a century-old recipe" and "a big secret recipe" and so on. Promoting your own medicine can do things that doctors can't. Similar to the treatment of diabetes, cancer, hypertension and other diseases, let the audience willingly buy these products.
It is necessary to know that most health care products belong to food classification and have no medicinal value. How can they be helpful to treat diseases? And if this pill is really so magical, one pill can cure an incurable disease, then why do you need a regular doctor? Can't everyone take a few pills before meals to stay healthy forever?
These rumors can confuse the public and make many people believe it. On the one hand, because of the lack of knowledge of the previous generation in China, many people do not have basic scientific knowledge. On the other hand, it is also the old people's desire for health. It is precisely by grasping this psychology that the bad guys can succeed again and again.
Presumably, many young readers also have a headache for their elders being cheated repeatedly. In order to make them repent, it is better to popularize the two characteristics of health fraud and find out the reasons from the depths of their minds.
Exaggerate the advantages and disadvantages of a certain food in order to achieve the purpose of false propaganda.
As we all know, food should be moderate, and even the best food will be harmful if it is not controlled. For example, excessive consumption of rice leads to obesity, and diabetes may occur. But can you say that rice is poisonous?
A lot of health knowledge is to seize this logical loophole and exaggerate or vilify certain foods out of context. In this way, we can attract people's attention and attract more elderly readers.
Health claims that are extremely contrary to common sense should be carefully identified and not blindly believed.
Defame modern medicine and exaggerate the efficacy of health care products
This is also the place where many elderly people are most easily deceived. It is often reported in the news that an old man spent hundreds of thousands on health care products and regretted being cheated.
This kind of crime is often successful, because it can cure some incurable diseases by promoting its own products, and it only needs to spend a little money to restore health. Many old people have suffered from diseases for a long time. When they encounter such a good thing, they will naturally be blinded by greed. Desperate to spend all my savings on these products.
On the one hand, the appearance of these scams shows that health is precious to people. On the other hand, it shows that scientific knowledge is the most powerful weapon.
There are two ways to reduce the chances of the elderly being cheated.
1, often give the elderly knowledge of popular science and health care. Only by knowing what is right can he be unmoved in the face of lies.
The popularity of various health experts reflects the backwardness of China's medical level. Many diseases can't be cured, which will naturally make people superstitious about various health rumors. On the other hand, it also shows that the popularization of medical knowledge is not comprehensive enough, and these poor rumors can deceive so many patients.
Only by continuing to improve the medical level and expanding the scope of compulsory education. Such "health experts" can disappear from our lives.