Somebody turn the ‘Days Since Pete Evans Gives Crackpot Medical Advice & Angers Actual Doctors With Actual Medical Degrees’ counter back to zero.
Yesterday, the internet got wind of a piece of advice that Paleo Pete had given a fan with osteoporosis: to stop eating dairy. He told his follower in a Facebook Q&A that the best way to manage her medical condition – one typically caused by a lack of calcium – was to stop eating dairy, because “calcium from dairy can remove the calcium from your bones”.
When his follower expressed surprise at this totally unfounded piece of information, Evans replied, “Most doctors do not know this information.”
(h/t news.com.au)
This is on par with those “doctors hate her!” spam ads for looking younger.
In a Facebook post (that’s now going viral), Robinson dragged Evans to the Paleolithic period and back.
“Dear Pete Evans, I presume you have forgotten (silly you!) so please allow me to remind you. You are a chef, NOT a doctor. Further, you are not someone who magically knows things that the sum total of generations of medical research has determined. You do not have access to information that us uneducated doctors do not. Your astounding advice about osteoporosis would be amusing if it wasn’t so potentially damaging to anyone at risk who actually believed you. Even worse, your advice to the user of an anti-cholesterol medication to cease its use is – through an increased risk of stroke and heart attack if your advice were followed – potentially deadly. Can we make a deal? You don’t give medical advice and I won’t tell you how to best shuck oysters. Agreed? Regards, Dr Brad.”
Photo: Sunday Night.
