Comments on: 12 Health Fads That Never Made It

By: Joe Pendragon

Joe Pendragon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:14:44 +0000

If anybody wants to try the blood group diet, you can find out you blood group by donating blood. They will tell you then.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:47:12 +0000

My neighbour has got a bee farm as a hobby (retired) because she has arthritis.

By: Ms G

Ms G — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:20:06 +0000

Well, it\’s never bad to try out stuff ofcourse .. it it doesn\’t work it mostly doesn\’\'t harm either. Hope let\’s people live ..

If all people had reasonsed immediately as everthing natural is crap .. there would be no medical science nowadays .. personal research will never harm. Even when med science says otherwise as med science is mainly based on a standard that does not apply to everyone. More in general I mean. Researchers first discover this and then years later the exact opposite .. people follow them .. with bad results at times as well. You never hear that much about that. Weird huh … Science should not the new god either. Your own body is the best tool to measure some stuff (that is .. if you do understand your body).

By: John W.

John W. — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:18:46 +0000

Also there is a tree which grows in the Patagonian’ Rainforest
by the name of “Oaks-Jutefolio”. I think that’s how you spell it.
Apparently the sap is supposed to have medicinal qualities
which are useful for sores and swellings

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:51:45 +0000

The blood typing fad never caught on in America or Europe, but is HUGE in Japan. They have whole dating sites that are based on blood type compatibility. See this article from ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6527702&page=1

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:06:15 +0000

I tried the ear candle to help with tinnitus, got a nice lot of candle wax in my hair.

By: Shona

Shona — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Huh, we get taught about bee venom for MS in our biotherapeutics class in Pharmacy. I don’t know that it’s been completely explained away by placebo, particularly in a disease where we really don’t understand the mechanism of what causes it and makes it worse in the first place!

By: John W.

John W. — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:03:18 +0000

Tash – Snake venom is actually used in medicine, ACE-inhibitor drugs for Hypertension are based on it as are blood thinning agents. A lot of the newer heart drugs for heart attack patients are based on too. So i’m afraid that snake venom is not a fad,although a bite could be pretty nasty.

By: roz

roz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:39:54 +0000

seems to me reading that list would be the best way to diet–you completely lose yer appetite!

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:42:26 +0000

I have to say that I think the tapeworm is one of the worst……quite horrible. And bee venom? I’ve been stung by a bee and I wouldn’t know about it curing anything cos I was in too much bloody pain!

LC x