Oh, please don’t tell me they wasted tax money on this.
0.8mm Hg? I don’t know of ANY BP cuff that measures THAT accurately. Even so, it’s INSIGNIFICANT. The real problem is inner city kids with 400lb. moms that take their kids to McDonalds every day. When you don’t work all day, you do have a couple of “free minutes” to make something healthy.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Nationa Institutes of Health, Chicago Health Research Foundation and national agencies in China, Japan and the United Kingdom national agencies in China, Japan and the United Kingdom funded the study.
Nah, our tax dollars went to fund A.C.O.R.N.
Yes, all these studies are absurd. For some of these, they send people a questionnaire once a year and ask them to write down what they ate and drank. How many people can even remotely remember what they consumed over the course of a year, and how many just lie or guess?
My dad was in one of these studies, and when he was older I helped him fill in his answers. I knew that many of his responses were wrong, and I have never trusted one of these silly studies since.