Increasing CO2 threatens human nutrition (From the Annals of Hype)
Disaster Disaster! Driving a car in 2014 could one day cause 2 billion people to suffer from zinc and iron deficiencies leaving them anaemic and prone to infection, and causing a loss of 63 million...
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...
View ArticleHypothesis 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...
View ArticleCholesterol — 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,...
View ArticleChocolate 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...
View ArticleLow 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...
View ArticleIPCC announces Fatwa on meat eating
The Steak is coming to get you. Good news, the Intergovernmental Holy Panel has finally released the new World-Saving IPCC Diet (WSID) which will stop storms, volcanoes and the spread of jellyfish. It...
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 ArticlePlanet saving fake-meat burger fails
So everyone “believes in climate change”, but they apparently don’t want to buy the fake-meat that is going to save us from storms, floods and droughts. It’s another mystery of post-modern life that’s...
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...
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