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The Nut of the India: The false promise of a ¨perfect body¨
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Obesity is a health subject which worries to millions of people all around the world. The search for a healthy weight and also to respond to certain beauty canons imposed by the cultural industry, some popular remedies are popular and far away from helping they damage to the people who applied them.

In this context, a new remedy promises to take away some pounds from our body in little time and without effort. It is about a prodigal seed which maybe you have already heard about it: The Nut of India. Although it is not commercialized in the drugstores of the Ministry of Health, it is true that this product has been inserted in the national environment.

It comes from other countries in which they are sold in several drugstores or commercial establishments of natural medicine. To judge by the cover it is a charming and harmless treatment. But in this case, appearances can deceive.

What is the secret of The Nut of the India to help us have the alleged right appearance? Very simple: its compounds provoke intestinal irritation, make difficult the absorption of the nutrients and have a dangerous laxative effect. Those who take it, doubtless lose weight but it is rather due to the dehydration and severe disorders in our body. The toxicity of this product has taken the life to several people in some countries like Argentina and Brazil, where by the way, the consumption of the famous nut is forbidden.

And how is it then that this idea of holy remedy is spread against obesity? The answer is easy: The Internet.

Today, big deal of the network customers before going to the doctor, have searched the symptoms or the health problems and while being on it the recommended treatments. So far, the need for information is valid. Complications begin when we substitute the opinion of a physician with the result given by google, kind of an all terrain specialist for some internauts.

Then, if the focus of attention is obesity, non reliable sites will highlight the magical effects of the Nut of the India and unfortunately many people will go along with this false information also known as bulos.(Internet B.S)

The situation with the lies about health in the Internet is so alarming that the health professionals, patients and journalists have created the platform Health without bulos. This initiative of the Health Investigators Association looks for detecting rumors about health to answer them with true and contrasted information.

Quality information: how to recognize it?

Of course, there is in the Internet a lot of valuable information. To identify it, be alert! – for instance- from the kind of site you are consulting: is it a page dealing with scientific information? Is it about a personal blog? What we are reading is just an opinion or is it a news with tested data and sources of information clearly quoted?

Before sharing in social networks health news it will be wise to look for the original investigation from which the journalist obtained the data to make their work. Generally speaking, magazines or specialized sections have the reference or include a link to the scientific article in which the authors explain their results and methods. And here you could think that reading these works is difficult, boring and thus not worthy.

However, all of us, although not belonging to the world of sciences can detect for example, if the investigation really deals with the definitive cure to a disease or a medication which is barely in phase 1 which are two ideas with totally different implications.

We should besides be careful with the news heading with the classic affirmation ¨a scientific report reveals that…¨ always ask to yourself: what study? What methods have been employed? How many people have participated in the investigation? Where has it been published?

Regarding the treatment for obesity, the only way scientifically validated to lose some weight is a healthy diet and to avoid physical inactivity. That´s to say, changes in your life style. Any other promise of perfect body without exercises, without eating everything you like, is so false and dangerous as the instantaneous solution with which some make publicity to the Nut of the India.

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