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Very small trial appears to reverse Alzheimers symptoms
I like to keep an eye on research on keeping our brains intact (even if it’s not far past the leeches-and-arsenic stage). Here is a tiny trial showing a bit of promise. After years of testing drugs on...
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Hypothesis contradicted? Fatter people get *less* dementia
Researchers were sure fatter people would get more dementia, so they studied two million middle-aged people for nearly a decade but were “baffled to find the exact opposite. Their sample included...
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Cholesterol — how the web and books are years ahead of “Consensus”
Consensus — slowing real science for decades There is a surprising amount of interest in the cholesterol story of Matt Ridley’s in The Times and The Australian last week. Surprising to me anyway,...
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Chocolate is the fountain of youth, eat blocks, live long, be slim
We have found the holy grail and it is chocolate. Lo, “Eating 100 g of chocolate daily linked to lowered heart disease and stroke risk”. One hundred grams a day! That’s about a quarter of the average...
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The fat police won’t be happy about this…
Remember the experts who said we should drink skim milk? A new large study suggests that full fat milk is healthier. So much for that consensus about saturated fat. There have been signs things were...
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Low Fat consensus was wrong: High carb diets increase death rates
How many people have died prematurely because they swapped their fats for carbohydrates? More fat meant less death (left). More carbs (right) meant the opposite (at least above 60%). (Click to see the...
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Climate change bad: causes “longer growing seasons” but blamed for allergies
It’s a disaster: More plants, more crops, more flowers! Between 1995 and 2011, fewer freeze-free days meant 11 to 27 days added to pollen season for most of the United States, research shows. The...
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There goes another consensus. Crash diets solve diabetes in 3 weeks
Sometimes the consensus deniers are right, which is exactly why the term is so pointless and so profoundly unscientific. The medical associations were unequivocal. Crash diets were a fad, unhealthy,...
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Cutting calories can stop cancer cells from spreading
Something different to discuss – for the medical-revolution cynics among us. Cells from a human triple-negative breast cancer were implanted in mice under their mammary fat pads. Triple negative breast...
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For 80 years cholesterol experts said ‘eat less fat’. But where was the...
Depressing. A consensus based on nothing much, still lasted three generations And it’s not dead yet: Groups like the American Heart Association, UCSF Guidelines, VicHealth, etc are all still advising...
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Wow. Vitamin D deficiency may cause 40% of respiratory deaths in older people
It’s really quite a scandal. Missing out on the Sunshine Vitamin? Historians will marvel that societies that were advanced enough to stream reality-tv-shows at 100 million bits per second, were also so...
View ArticleVitamin D reduced the rate of ICU admission from 50% to 2%. Do black lives...
Given that people with dark skin are more likely to be deficient in Vitamin D, wouldn’t studies like these be the best way to show that black lives actually matter? Would you like training in cultural...
View ArticleVitamin B6 may reduce the cytokine storms of Covid
Maybe getting enough Vitamin B6 will reduce deaths The main two things that kill people with Covid are blood clotting and an out-of-control inflammation known as a cytokine storm. A group of...
View ArticleClimate control speed bump: Vegetarian women were 33% more likely to suffer...
Governments pushing meat-free diets for weather control might want to follow the other science… A 20 year study of 26,000 women showed that people who ate vegetarian diets were 33% more likely to break...
View ArticleClimate change bad: causes “longer growing seasons” but blamed for allergies
It’s a disaster: More plants, more crops, more flowers! Between 1995 and 2011, fewer freeze-free days meant 11 to 27 days added to pollen season for most of the United States, research shows. The...
View ArticleFor 80 years cholesterol experts said ‘eat less fat’. But where was the...
Depressing. A consensus based on nothing much, still lasted three generations And it’s not dead yet: Groups like the American Heart Association, UCSF Guidelines, VicHealth, etc are all still advising...
View ArticleThere goes another consensus. Crash diets solve diabetes in 3 weeks
Sometimes the consensus deniers are right, which is exactly why the term is so pointless and so profoundly unscientific. The medical associations were unequivocal. Crash diets were a fad, unhealthy,...
View ArticleCutting calories can stop cancer cells from spreading
Something different to discuss – for the medical-revolution cynics among us. Cells from a human triple-negative breast cancer were implanted in mice under their mammary fat pads. Triple negative breast...
View ArticleThe fat police won’t be happy about this…
Remember the experts who said we should drink skim milk? A new large study suggests that full fat milk is healthier. So much for that consensus about saturated fat. There have been signs things were...
View ArticleVery small trial appears to reverse Alzheimers symptoms
I like to keep an eye on research on keeping our brains intact (even if it’s not far past the leeches-and-arsenic stage). Here is a tiny trial showing a bit of promise. After years of testing drugs on...
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