Doctor John Campbell

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Not necessarily. We have no idea whether you are a bloated blimp or conversely have a stick figure build which in either case would make dietary advice blatantly relevant. You may also be consulting an integrative health focussed GP which would also explain your experiences.

Oh c'mon. 

Any adult with half a brain knows that if you ask questions of your GP you will get advice, on most subjects. Trouble is far too many people fail to ask questions. And even more expect their GPs to be cure everything  mind readers with the magical ability to extend their ten minute allocated consultation time into considerably more...

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The problem is that the failure to ask their GP is indicative that most people really do have "half a brain", particularly when it comes to chronic medical conditions which is where the modern health system really struggles. And to further complicate matters doctors are averse to accepting queries that are conveyed in a self diagnosis way which they all too often write off as the patient relying on 'Dr Google', or that the issue is psychosomatic. A system destined to fail?

Sure the diagnosis of an acute condition is straightforward in terms of both the doctor asking the relevant questions and in the patient recognising what is relevant to the affliction but for more complex and subtle conditions the medical practice's 'sausage factory' model is all too superficial to work successfully.

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"We have no idea whether you are a bloated blimp or conversely have a stick figure build "  Another straw man argument.  All these incorrect assumptions are getting tiresome.

No. Just trying to ascertain all the relevant details as I'm all too aware that "half a truth is often a great lie".

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You fail to mention that dietary recommendations are inclined to be confused with fashion fads, as well as based on research that when reexamined turns out to be less than reliable.
For instance, remember the eggs are bad for your heart advice - subsequently debunked. The blood group diet?  Vegan trend? The sugar free thing that fails to mention the chemical substitutes?

The best dietary advice remains the simplest. Eat less, move more. Haven't met a doc yet who argues against that...

Dietary advice research is an expensive exercise which is all too often far too blinkered in its parameters to provide real life results, and designed to be self serving by the funder of that research.

Sure there is a long list of dietary items that have changed from positive to negative, or vice versa, over the years with eggs, butter, artificial sweeteners, meat, soy, wheat/gluten, wine and coffee being just a few of them. The benefits of avoiding many of these foods will differ from one individual to the next as every one of us has a unique bodily terrain with toxin levels, stress factors, gut biome and genetic influences all dictating what best fuels our lives. The human body is an incredibly complex organism so it's not surprising that the typically reductionist scientific research methods that our pharmaceutical based health system relies on fails to get it right on numerous occasions. But that's a whole other discussion thread for elsewhere.