Mayo Clinic "Expert Blog" a Disappointment

Warning Readers! The following is a rant--I am not a big fan of rants, because I think they are a stylistic cliche,  but I am so shocked that my blog, which I consider to be relatively "non-technical" sometimes has more depth and often sites more references than the posts on the Mayo Clinic blog.  I am not even a health professional!  (I'm a writer and interpreter of holistic health trends.)

Say it isn't so! A freelance writer friend of mine suggested that if I ever wanted to become a freelancer and sell articles, I would have to make one major change to my writing--dumb it down to a sixth grade level!  He said that, unfortunately, freelance writing that is geared to the general public and hence needs to be dumbed down.  I guess that explains the Mayo Clinic's "Expert Blog."

I was reading the Mayo Clinic "Expert Blog" today, and most of the articles are brief summaries of general Western medicine ideas--with no research done on the part of the Mayo Clinic!  Their posts are written by Doctors, and an article on raw milk sites a reference as "fans of raw milk." 

The Mayo Clinic raw milk blog reads, "Fans of raw milk assert that it tastes sweeter and fresher. They also claim that it fights allergies, digestive problems, eczema, autism, arthritis and learning disabilities, and boosts immunity — properties that they say are removed by pasteurization. The FDA and other public health officials, however, point out that these claims aren't supported by research."  Actually, there is research that supports these health claims about the benefits of raw milk, which I will include in a future post.

The same authors wrote another about soup--Thinking Outside the Can. They mentioned the health concerns about sodium in canned soup, but never even mentioned that MSG is in most canned soups, and that MSG, by law, doesn't have to be listed as an ingredient. MSG may be listed as a "natural flavoring," or many other innocuous terms other than MSG. As I talked about in an earlier post, I was tested for food sensitivities, and I am sensitive to MSG, and should not eat it. I am really disappointed that an intuition as prestigious as the Mayo Clinic wouldn't even mention the prevalence of MSG in canned soup in an article about soup.


Yikes!  This is Mayo Clinic!  I want to hear results from THEIR OWN research on raw milk!  But apparently they haven't done any! A quick, shallow summary is all there was from of the leading medical pioneers in the world!  (By the way, I don't drink raw milk, because of the rare cases of contamination, but I am glad to have access to all the information about it, as non-raw milk coalitions lobby against small farmers for financial reasons because larger companies are not equipped to produce raw milk.)

The Mayo Clinic blog on raw milk sites resources such as "FDA and "other public health officials" without tackling the subject of  politics at the FDA that prevent unbiased findings. (I will do a future post on mercury amalgam--the FDA head of this amalgam study was a former high level employee of the amalgam industry!!!) 

These are Doctors affiliated with the Mayo Clinic, and the article is simpler than something I could have watched on Dr. Oz! Actually Dr. Oz seems to be a little more progressive than the "Expert Blog" from the Mayo Clinic. 



A Votre Sante (Here's to Your Health), Alix