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As mentioned in an earlier blog post, life expectancy is falling in North America and in the UK, and will shortly start falling in many other countries also. The neo-opioid epidemic has made a dent and suicides are up too, but the data are pretty clear; death rates...
There is a lot of ill health around, and many people blame it on our modern and corrupted diet. It used to be saturated fat - but are saturated fats still the bad guys? Probably not. New evidence indicates that saturated fats may be protective! For example, a...
There are some well-known factors that cause chronic inflammation, and thus predispose to disease; and some not so well known ones. Let’s start with the familiar, and gradually merge into the strange…. Numero uno, tobacco. Smoking kills, according to the cigarette packs, and one of the ways in...
Governments and their bankster backers love wars – and not just war wars. The War on Alcohol – aka prohibition – started in earnest just one year after the idiot carnage of WW1 (the ‘war to end all wars’) had finally bled out. The war on alcohol (1919-1933)...
The West is The Best. (The End, Jim Morrison 1967). William Gibson, whose multi-layered Neuromancer trilogy is in my view one of the great art-works of the 20th century, explained to us that ‘the future is already here - it is just not very evenly distributed.’ He wasn’t...
The debate about fat has raged since the 50’s when Ancel Keys, one of the first researchers to examine the cardio-protective properties of the Mediterranean diet, launched the mammoth 7 Countries Study. The main hypothesis to be tested was that the rate of coronary disease in populations and...
We are getting fatter as a population, but we have not reached peak fat. If we let out our waistbands, and if our craven and corrupt politicians cave in to the brazen attempt by the USA to drag our nutritional standards lower (via the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
Of course vitamin E is still needed. It does not appear to be as effective as the lipophilic polyphenols in protecting fish oil as it is consumed, absorbed and then ferried through the blood stream to the tissues where it will be built into cell membranes. It does,...
‘Alcohol – the cause of, and the solution to, all life’s problems.’ (Hat tip Homer Simpson). Alcohol wrecks lives. Having known alcoholics (and their family members), liver transplant surgeons and motorway police officers, I know how destructive alcohol can be. But it is not entirely bad. Alcohol –...
Fish oil doesn’t work. Clinical trials have been generating terrible results lately both for the fish oil industry, and all those who have been swallowing fish oil supplements. These include a clutch of major studies which looked at the cardio-protective effects of fish oil (JELLIS, GISSI-HF, ALPHA-OMEGA, OMEGA,...