Natalie Paris through your account at Twitter makes recommendations that contradict medical evidence, from not getting vaccinated to drinking Amazon concoctions to treat cancer, you what do you think?
A look at the account Twitter of Natalia Paris can leave more than one speechless, and not necessarily because of the photos she shares with her 535,000 followers. Between images in underwear and motivational phrases of the type “For the new to come, you have to let go of the old”the paisa model likes to trifle health advice that can make more than one doctor nervous.
It is not so easy to separate the wheat from the chaff in the Twitter of Natalie Paris. While one day he invites you not to get vaccinated, other times he offers harmless advice or simply invites you to lead a healthy life through diet, exercise and fighting stress. Who could argue with phrases like “the mind is like a parachute, it only works if it opens” or “be organic”?
The problem is that some of the trills conflate popular myths with trends that go against all current medical evidence. Since conventional wisdom dictates having a second opinion when it comes to medical advice, the presidents of the Colombian Association of Endocrinology and the Association of Dermatology They gave their opinion on Natalia Paris’s health advice.
Tweet 1. “Sweet your juices with STEVIA, avoid ‘aspartame’, it is a poison created by the powerful of the world to brutalize the world population”.
Controversy over sweeteners is not new, says endocrinologist William Rojas, president of the Colombian Association of Endocrinology. The first thing he clarifies is that any natural or synthetic chemical in excess can cause harm to those who consume it. “I have seen patients who, when they take excessive amounts of aspartame, end up with the same problems as sugar consumers”, explains Rojas, and remembers that the war over sweeteners is a trade war. while in United States Food and Drug Administration has only allowed the use of aspartame (it is produced by an American company). Stevia, which is extracted from a plant that grows in Paraguay, has had a bumpy road to conquer a larger market. The same thing happened 30 years ago when Europe started producing saccharin. Europeans closed their doors to aspartame. According to the American Cancer SocietySo far, no serious study has shown that aspartame causes cancer. Thinking that aspartame can be dangerous, the tweet should have been something like: “consume the least amount of sweeteners you can. That includes panela, sugar, stevia, aspartame and any other”.
Tweet 2. “Research genetic manipulation, female hormones in food and the plan to sterilize the world population.”
This trill mixes a conspiracy theory (they want to sterilize us all) with the same idea that led the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, to argue that the consumption of chickens injected with hormones caused homosexuality in consumers. “For people to understand”Rojas replies. “a Saint Bernard dog is not given growth hormone to make it grow. That is his genetic condition. In the same way, broilers are the result of genetic selection processes and not hormone treatments”. On the other hand, if it were true that we are being bombarded with female hormones, in the case of men we would begin to observe a tendency to have bodies with more feminine characteristics, including gynecomastia or breast formation, among others.
Tweet 3. “ALERT! ALERT! (never get vaccinated again) (INVESTIGATE IT!) (if you want)”.
The history of the anti-vaccine movement dates back to 1998. That year, the British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a study in the journal ‘The Lancet’, proposing a relationship between the administration of the triple viral vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) and the development of autism in children to whom it had been administered. Although months later the editors of the magazine withdrew said article and explained that there was no data to think that this was possible, the damage had already been done and little by little the anti-vaccine movement began to take shape. The World Health Organization has tried in many ways to make clear the importance of vaccination programs. Vaccines prevent 2.5 million deaths each year. Global mortality from measles has been reduced by 78% and the incidence of polio decreased by 99%. Deaths from neonatal tetanus have also decreased to 59,000, of which 790 thousand registered deaths in 1988.
Tweet 4. “The eye in the sky: the magnetic connection between the Sun and the pineal gland.”
The pineal gland, explains Rojas, is highly developed in animals that live in areas with seasons. “It is a biological clock that is activated because the amount of light that reaches it is less or more”says the specialist. This allows the animals to go into metabolic recess in winter time and spend less energy. It also allows them to synchronize their playback cycles. The truth is that in humans and animals the relationship of the gland with the Sun is determined by the amount of light and not by the magnetic field between the Earth and the Sun.
Tweet 5. “Find my REDUCING gel in all NATURIST FUNAT stores at the exit of SUCCESS. All the products are there.
“The idea behind these reducing gels is that if I put on a gel that causes cold, the body generates heat so that I lose fat and lose weight. Medically, there is not a single study that proves it”, answers the specialist in endocrinology bluntly. And turning the matter around he says: «The only reasonable explanation would be that they had hormones that the body absorbed through the skin and accelerated metabolism throughout the body». Conclusion: for the expert, the reducing gel that Natalia Paris sells works if her clients dedicate the same time to going to the gym as she does.
Tweet 6. “Eating breakfast? Apply a little bit of egg white from the shells that were left, around your eyes. Reduces wrinkles. CHECK IT».
Since it was a matter of dermatology, the answer corresponded to Cesar Burgospresident of the Colombian Association of Dermatology and Dermatological Surgery: “Wrinkles and skin aging are mainly due to two factors: a natural biological deterioration process and the effect of the sun’s ultraviolet rays that cause damage to the dermis and epidermis. Egg white contains many amino acids, but it has nothing to do with these damages. The egg white can perhaps cause a superficial filling that gives a cosmetic appearance. But saying this as if it were a panacea is not right.».
Tweet 7. “Do you want to improve the quality of your hair? Take colagmin PLUS, %NATURAL, for sale in SOL VERDE stores outside of ÉXITO”.
The quality of the hair”explains doctor Burgos, “It does not depend on a single product, but on a balanced diet. No product in the world guarantees that. In the case of people with hair problems, it is necessary to analyze whether they are localized or systemic diseases”. If it weren’t for the invitation to abandon vaccination programs, whose success depends on everyone’s participation, it would be easy to agree with another of Natalia Paris’ tweets: “There are not many obligations as human beings. One of them is to let each one live as they please… ”.
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