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In some areas of health you see many conflicting reports. Who do you believe? Here is some information to help you through the process of determining which side if any is correct.

First examine the empirical evidence. Does the side espousing a particular belief have a conflict of interest.

We just witnessed a huge battle in Florida over a woman’s life. This was an interesting study on the good and bad aspects of human nature. Let’s examine these and how they may apply to health reports and decisions.

I am on the side of life, but standing back and observing events from an objective point of view one has to wonder if there wasn't a prejudiced agenda in this whole case.

Would you for example want your former spouse who had a family with their new spouse making decisions for you? Then there is the area of paid medical opinions, whenever there is a grey area of fact it is easy to in effect hire a hired gun who can testify in their expert opinion (name your desired conclusion) that they concur with that conclusion. I mean isn't it possible to shop around until you find an expert who agrees with you.

Then you had the area of life that people see what they want to see. For example you had one side that I believe went into the situation with the preconceived idea that this women was in effect totally brain dead. So that is what they saw. On the other hand you had a family that wanted to see their daughter still alive so they looked for signs that she wasn’t brain dead and they saw that and that is why they fought so hard. This is an excellent example of how we as humans often evaluate a situation based upon how we want the situation to be. So you had this at work.

Many health studies are conducted in this manner. Evidence is looked for to support a desired conclusion and evidence is often thrown out that doesn't support that desired conclusion.

Also in this whole scenario you had the example of how some people will never admit they might have been wrong about a decision they made and will go to any length to avoid admitting it. Strong high profile people, the kind that get to be politicians, judges, doctors and the like often won’t admit when they are wrong. I believe these people consider it a weakness to admit wrong, this especially seems true of lawyers who I believe think that if their client admits even a hint of wrongdoing that their case is sunk. Plus in the case of doctors and professional people they may be afraid to admit they made a wrong decision because of potential lawsuits.

Even the most well meaning of people can have their judgement clouded because of biases and preconceived ideas. If you have a big financial stake in something you don’t readily want to admit you are wrong or something else is better. For example if you are a drug company and you just spent 50 million dollars on a new wonder drug you are not going to likely admit some 75 cent nutrient may be just as effective.

I don’t say this to be judgmental of any particular study, nutrient or company. Only so that when you hear a particular report that this nutrient or food is good or bad that you would consider who is saying what, and do they have a particular financial stake in a certain outcome that could bias their conclusion.

One particular example I can think of is soy. One side says it’s a great health product, which greatly benefits health. The other side says it can be harmful.

Like we already mentioned if you want to see something a certain way you can probably find some evidence to support your desired finding. The point is does this make the product harmful, not necessarily because the multitude of benefits could easily override one negative aspect of a product.

So when examining a particular health claim look at the big picture, not just one study that most likely is biased. After all studies cost money and no one likes to pay for a study that goes against their desired financial interest. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that if you manufacture tea that you could commission a study to find something wrong with drinking coffee to boost your tea sales and vice versa.

In the case of soy the bigger picture certainly suggests it’s many health benefits. For when you examine the health of people who consume large quantities of it as part of their daily diet they seem to be free of many of the health problems of people who consume a more western diet. But this certainly doesn’t preclude other factors at work. However, it certainly doesn’t seem to indicate that it is harmful.

I do know that I have been eating more soy drinking more soy milk and have lessened my use of dairy products and I have felt more energetic and healthy.

I would always suggest you weight the evidence before making your own decisions on soy or anything else.

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