Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will tell you about small errors in useful publications.
Over the past week, a whole list of inaccuracies and misunderstandings has accumulated from one useful resource. The resource is useful, but the guys are mistaken in translating English-language sources. It's not too scary. Now we will analyze and fix it quickly. If you come across these publications, then make corrections.
About paracetamol
They write that it is used with caution in children and is not given to children under 2 years old at all.
Here someone misunderstood something. Paracetamol is one of the safest OTC pain relievers and antipyretics available. It is given to children from birth.
Iron in food
They say that in shellfish like mussels or oysters, iron is as much as 28 milligrams per hundred grams of the product. And yet they say nothing about meat.
In fact, in shellfish, there is only 8 milligrams of iron per 80 gram serving. Here again someone misunderstood something.
Well, in the first place as a source of iron is meat.
New milk
They say that it is better to boil fresh milk.
In fact, raw milk must be boiled. There is no doubt about that. Fresh milk can contain an unpredictable amount of contagion, including brucellosis, tuberculosis, and tick-borne encephalitis. Yes, tick-borne encephalitis can be contracted not through a tick bite, but through raw milk.
Cholesterol from eggs
They write that eggs do not raise the level of "bad" cholesterol in the blood.
In fact, they are increasing. In European recommendations, cardiologists are advised to limit the amount of cholesterol in the diet to 300 milligrams per day. Eggs contain a lot of cholesterol.
The Americans omitted this point. They believe that poorer people should eat more eggs because they are nutritious and cheap. Personally, I don't like this approach.
Trans fats
They write that trans fats have a bad effect on blood cholesterol levels, so saturated fats should be no more than 5-6% of the daily calories.
Looks like the guys got it mixed up for trans fats and saturated fats. Saturated fat is animal fat like butter or lard. They really should be less than 10% of the daily calorie content. But trans fats are industrial fats like margarine. They should not be in the diet at all.
Sleep pose
They write that if you sleep on your back, it provokes acid reflux from the stomach, and you need to raise the headboard.
In fact, reflux is triggered by a prone position and the head is raised when gastroesophageal reflux disease is present.
Boiling milk and whey protein
They write that boiling milk destroys whey proteins, and this reduces an allergic reaction to milk.
Heating does destroy the allergens in milk, but not boiling, but baking. That is, heating somewhere up to 180 degrees. Such mistakes happen when people do not read the full text of an article, but only a summary in an abbreviated version. In such a pomace there is only the word "heating" without a specific temperature.
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