At the weekend I saw an ad on the website of a usually respectable UK newspaper claiming there are three questions you can ask 'to find out if you have cancer.' Fancy that: forget the centuries of diagnostics - you can have the answer in just three questions. And your doctor will love it when you march into the surgery with your three questions and answers off t'internet. Or if you ignore real indicators there's something wrong because your answers to the three questions were okay.
Yesterday Facebook carried an ad claiming there is a herbal cure for diabetes. There isn't, of course. If there was a cure, herbal or otherwise, for diabetes, we'd all know about it, as would the half-dozen people each of us knows personally who suffer from this serious - and dangerous - condition. I hate the idea of anyone so desperate they'll swallow the herbal remedy and give up the meds and the diet recommended by the medical profession.
Today, it's this:
Yep, it's upside down yoga, as practised in Australia. It's not a fad, says a man who runs - and presumably makes money from - upside down yoga 'clinics' in Sydney. O yes, a fad is exactly what it is and a dangerous one too. As my yoga teacher used to tell us when doing any upside down posture: don't do this if you have a history of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure or migraine.
And above all, remember there are people on the internet who really believe there's one born every minute. Don't be that one!
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