Good points made here, things are not black and white today with health care..many differing opinions, studies, etc., sometimes too much for one to handle. BD
No wonder people are confused. And not just about echinacea. On this roller coaster of health advice, caffeine, carbohydrates, and replacement hormones for women after menopause are bad one day, good the next. One meta-analysis was enough to send sales of diabetes blockbuster Avandia plunging when it suggested heart side effects. "The average reader can't sort it out," says Jeanne P. Goldberg, director of the Center on Nutrition Communication at Tufts University.
The problem is, the world of medical and health research is messier than most people realize. Black-and-white answers are rare, even when it comes to a single drug trial. In hormone replacement therapy, "people from the same study are disagreeing with each other," says Julie Buring, professor of medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
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