Is It Healthy To Read Health Articles? Yes, If They Make You Laugh Them Out Of Your Feed
What is new?
Nothing, unfortunately. It’s just more of the clickbaity headlines on health that cause you more whiplash.
Why it matters
Because becoming fat from exercise, and getting diabetes from low-carb diets, are just a welcome reminder of journalists’ failure to verify their data (also known as “doing their job”).
What now?
Have fun becoming more sarcastic about the media’s health messages.
The nutty examples
Intense exercise makes you gain weight, low-carb diets turn you into a diabetic, and no, it’s not April Fools’ Day. Or is it?
We can always rely on the popular media to give us our weekly dose of whiplash when it comes to health news. And so we read in the New York Post.
“How just one high-intensity workout can lead to weight gain”
While the Medical Republic educates us that
“Low-carb diets lead to weight gain, diabetes”
These headlines produced more synaptic crackles than what I usually experience when…
