tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38803856576992315332024-03-05T05:35:47.228+00:00Support for "Trick and Treat": How 'healthy eating' is making us ill <b>Studies and other evidence published since Trick and Treat went to press</b>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-68808133494652710042013-02-07T14:43:00.005+00:002013-02-07T14:43:57.791+00:00HEART ATTACK RISK IN 'HEALTHY SPREADS'<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Supports Chapter Five - Fats: from tonic to toxic </span></b></span><br />
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I have been extolling the virtues of butter over margarines made with linoleic acid-rich vegetable oils ever since 1971. Now, the medical fraternity is finally getting the message - and, more importantly, publishing it!<br /><br />This week, not only the BMJ but many UK Newspapers have published articles which vindicate my stance. But, as you will read, there are some who really don't want to know.<br />
<br />Swapping butter for margarine and vegetable oils could trigger a heart attack, scientists have warned.<br /><br />Decades of dietary advice has been turned on its head after experts uncovered startling new evidence about the dangers of eating “healthy” spreads.<br /><br />A study revealed an ingredient in vegetable fats triggers inflammation – which plays a major role in chronic illnesses from heart disease and cancer to arthritis and Alzheimer’s.<br /><br />The findings will have major implications for millions of Britons who have stopped using butter in favour of trendy, and less fatty, spreads and oils following healthy-living guidance.<br /><br />Victoria Taylor, senior dietitian at the British Heart Foundation, said: “Our understanding of the effect of different fats on the heart develops all the time as research into this complex issue is published. Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated alternatives is a well-known recommendation for your heart which is based on many large and in-depth studies.<br /><br />“However, this research highlights the need for us to further understand how different unsaturated fats affect our risk of heart disease.<br /><br />“Whichever fats you use it’s important to be sparing with them. Try to grill, bake, or steam your food, rather than frying. Measuring out oils instead of pouring straight from the bottle is another good way of making sure you’re not overdoing it.”<br /><br />The new research, published online in the <i>British Medical Journal</i>, was carried out by experts from the US Government’s National Institutes of Health in Maryland. They recovered missing data from a study in the 1960s involving 458 men aged 30-59 who had suffered a heart attack or angina.<br /><br />Using modern statistical methods to compare death rates, they found there was no evidence of the benefit of replacing saturated fats with omega-6 linoleic acid, found in vegetable fats.<br /><br />In fact, they said replacing the animal fats with polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) from vegetable fats increased risk of death in those patients with cardiovascular disease.<br /><br /><b>Those who increased their intake of the “healthy” fats over three years were almost twice as likely to die</b>.<br /><br />The omega-6 linoleic acid group in the study had a higher risk of death from all causes (62 per cent), as well as from cardiovascular disease (70 per cent) and coronary heart disease (74 per cent), compared to others.<br /><br />Linoleic acid is present in high amounts in some commonly used vegetable oils such as corn, sunflower, safflower and soya bean.<br /><br />Once in the body, it is converted into a chemical called arachidonic acid which can trigger the release of other chemicals leading to inflammation, a leading cause of a host of chronic diseases.<br /><br />In the UK, people consume on average of 10g per day of linoleic acid, found in about nine level teaspoons of polyunsaturated margarine or three teaspoons of sunflower oil. Coronary heart disease is the UK’s biggest killer with about one in five men and one in seven women dying from the disease.<br /><br />It causes around 94,000 deaths each year. There are also at least 2.6 million people living with the condition.<br /><br />Angina, the most common symptom of coronary heart disease, affects two million in Britain.<br /><br />Dr Christopher Ramsden, for the NIH study, said: “Advice to substitute vegetable oils rich in PUFAs for animal fats rich in saturated fats has been a cornerstone of dietary guidelines for the past half century.<br /><br />“These findings could have important implications for worldwide dietary advice to substitute omega-6 linoleic acid, or polyunsaturated fats in general, for saturated fats.”<br /><br />Professor Philip Calder, a nutritional immunologist at Southampton University, said the study provided “important information” on a health issue causing “considerable debate”.<br />
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It's about time that 'debate' reached its conclusion. We have evidence from over 50 years of study into fats and heart disease. The only fats that have shown harm are the 'healthy' vegetable oils and products made from them. No study has ever found statistically convincing evidence that butter is anything other than beneficial.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Caveat emptor</span></b><br />
Although UK law requires food labels to warn of saturated fat content, it is<b> <span style="color: blue;">'high in polyunsaturates'</span> </b>that the buyer should beware of<b>. </b><br />
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Christopher E Ramsden, Daisy Zamora , Boonseng Leelarthaepin, et al. Use of dietary linoleic acid for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and death: evaluation of recovered data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study and updated meta-analysis. <i><span class="jrnl" title="BMJ (Clinical research ed.)">BMJ</span></i>. 2013 Feb 4;346:e8707. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8707.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-34396257846912515612013-01-29T12:19:00.000+00:002013-01-29T12:19:25.585+00:00Sugar Tax Proposed - Misleading Comment from Industry<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>As you will see from the report below, there has been a proposition to impose a 20p per litre tax on sugary drinks. Well, I am not in favour of such taxes<span style="font-size: small;"> but, </span>if anything should be taxed, this is probably a good one, in my view. But there are several parts of this report which show that proponents of both sides are trying to mislead.I have added comments as we go.</b></span></div>
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<b>REPORT CALLS FOR SUGARY DRINKS TAX</b></div>
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By Andrew Woodcock, Press Association Political Editor</div>
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Sugary drinks should be subject to a new tax, which could
add 20p a litre to<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>their price, with the proceeds going towards child health,
a report said today.</div>
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The report by food and farming charity Sustain said that
the Government could<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>raise #1 billion a year from a sugary drinks duty to pay
for free school meals<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>and measures to encourage children to eat fruit and
vegetables.</div>
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The levy would also help save lives by cutting consumption
of sugar-laden<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>drinks, said the report, which has been backed by more than
60 organisations<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>including the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Friends of
the Earth, the<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>National Heart Forum and the Royal Society for Public
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Diet-related illness is now costing the NHS <span style="font-size: small;">£</span>6 billion
every year, said the<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>report.</div>
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Sustain urged Chancellor George Osborne to introduce a
sugary drinks duty in<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>his March 20 Budget and to channel most of the cash raised
into a Children's<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Future Fund for programmes to improve children's health and
future well-being<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></div>
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The group's campaigns manager Charlie Powell said:
"Sugar-laden drinks are<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>mini-health timebombs, contributing to dental diseases,
obesity and a host of<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>life-threatening illnesses which cost the NHS billions each
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"We are delighted that so many organisations want to
challenge the Government<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>to show it has a public health backbone by including a
sugary drinks duty in<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Budget 2013.</div>
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"It's a simple and easy-to-understand measure which will
help save lives by<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>reducing sugar in our diets and raising much-needed money
to protect children's<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>health."</div>
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Sustain chairman Mike Rayner, of Oxford University's
Department of Public<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Health, added: "Just as we use fiscal measures to
discourage drinking and<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>smoking and help prevent people from dying early, there is
now lots of evidence<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>that the same approach would work for food.</div>
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"This modest proposal goes some way towards making the
price of food reflect<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>its true costs to society.</div>
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"Our obesity epidemic causes debilitating illness,
life-threatening diseases<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>and misery for millions of people. It is high time
Government did something<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>effective about this problem." <b><span style="color: blue;">(Couldn't agree more<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">B</span>ut I doubt they will. When the Obesity Steering Group reports on 25 February, I'll bet they advocate more of the same old, same old . . .)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Where this has gone wrong, in my vi<span style="font-size: small;">ew, is that <span style="font-size: small;">Sustain is saying tax sugar (which is a 50-50 mix of glucose and fructose)</span></span> </span></b><span style="color: blue;"><b>in soft drinks but encourage ch<span style="font-size: small;">ildren to eat more fructose in fruit </span>and glucose in starchy vegetables, or to put it another wa<span style="font-size: small;">y<span style="font-size: small;">: </span>Discourage children to eat sugar which contain<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">s</span> fructose and gl<span style="font-size: small;">uco<span style="font-size: small;">se, but <span style="font-size: small;">encourage</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><b> children to eat foods that contains fructose and glucose!</b></div>
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The director general of the British Soft Drinks
Association, Gavin Partington,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>said: "Obesity is a serious and complex problem <span style="color: blue;"><b>(He's right)</b></span>, but a tax
on soft drinks,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>which contribute just 2% of the total calories in the
average diet, will not<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>help address it.<span style="color: blue;"><b> (Right again<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">L</span>ots of other carbohydrate-rich foods also contribute<span style="font-size: small;">. Why just select one?)</span></span></b></span></div>
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"Over the last 10 years, the consumption of soft drinks
containing added sugar<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>has fallen by 9% while the incidence of obesity has
increased by 15%.<span style="color: blue;"><b> (<span style="font-size: small;">Wouldn't surprise me. <span style="font-size: small;">'Healthy eating' is also fattening</span></span>.)</b></span></div>
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"We all recognise our industry has a role to play in the
fight against<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>obesity, which is why soft drinks companies have already
taken action to ensure<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>they are playing their part. Sixty-one per cent of soft
drinks now contain no<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>added sugar<b><span style="color: blue;"> (<span style="font-size: small;">True, b<span style="font-size: small;">ut</span></span> they contain even more harmful a<span style="font-size: small;">rtific<span style="font-size: small;">ial sweeteners)</span></span></span></b> and we have seen soft drinks companies lead the
way in committing to<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>further, voluntary action as part of the Government's
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Calorie Reduction Pledge.</div>
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"These commitments include, for example, reducing the sugar
content in their<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>products and introducing smaller packs.<b><span style="color: blue;"> (But at the same price so children buy <span style="font-size: small;">more of them and increase profit margins! - I suspect)</span></span></b></div>
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"At present, 10p out of every 60p can of drink already goes
to the Government<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>thanks to VAT. Putting up taxes even further will put
pressure on people's<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>purses at a time when they can ill afford it. <b><span style="color: blue;">(Not really. Who n<span style="font-size: small;">eeds sodas?)</span></span></b> It's worth
noting that Denmark recently<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>scrapped such a tax."<b><span style="color: blue;"> (No, they didn't! The Danish go<span style="font-size: small;">vernment taxed satu<span style="font-size: small;">rated </span>fats</span> which are beneficial and ten<span style="font-size: small;">d to reduce obesity and associated diseases. They rep<span style="font-size: small;">ealed the tax w<span style="font-size: small;">hen - surprise, surprise - they found it didn't work.)</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-10265036113858097352013-01-22T15:49:00.002+00:002013-01-22T15:49:15.867+00:00The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">It all started with 'high cholesterol', then came the 'good' and the 'bad' cholesterols. Now we have the last member of the notorious trio<span style="font-size: large;"><b>:</b></span> the 'ugly cholesterol'.</span></span></b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The risk of ischaemic heart disease -- the leading cause of death worldwide -- is three times higher in persons with high levels of the so-called 'ugly' cholesterol. This is the finding of a new study of 73,000 Danes, which is shedding light on a long debate on this topic. The results have just been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.<br /><br />Most individuals believe that high cholesterol is life-threatening (despite all the evidence to the contrary). And many 'know' which type of cholesterol is the most frequent killer -- the 'bad' one, LDL -- or is it just the small, dense LDL and not the fluffy stuff.<br /><br />Up until now, cholesterol has been divided into 'the good' HDL cholesterol, 'the bad' LDL cholesterol, with all the other sub-fractions, IDL, VLDL, etc, not getting a look in.<br /><br />But now another 'cholesterol' has turned up in the mix: 'the ugly' cholesterol AKA 'remnant cholesterol'. And this one, it seems, is the really bad guy.<br /><br />Professor Børge Nordestgaard, Chief Physician at Copenhagen University Hospital and Clinical Professor at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen says: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> "LDL cholesterol or 'the bad' cholesterol' is of course bad, but our new study reveals that the ugly cholesterol likewise is the direct cause of atherosclerosis resulting in ischemic heart disease and early death. By examining 73,000 persons, we found that an increase in the ugly cholesterol triples the risk of ischemic heart disease, which is caused by lack of oxygen to the heart muscle due to narrowing or blocking of the coronary arteries" </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> "I hope that this new knowledge will lead to better preventive treatment including lifestyle changes, as more than one in five individuals in affluent countries suffers from high ugly cholesterol. We also hope that the pharmaceutical industry will develop new drugs targeted specifically at raised ugly cholesterol levels"</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><b>So, what is ugly cholesterol?</b><br />"Ugly cholesterol is the result of high blood levels of normal fat (triglycerides)," says Børge Nordestgaard. "The most important cause of high ugly cholesterol is overweight and obesity. Persons with high ugly cholesterol should therefore be advised to lose weight, but drugs such as statins and fibrates may also lower levels of ugly cholesterol in the blood."<br /><br /><b>Samples from 73,000 Danes with mutations</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Anette Varbo, physician and PhD student at Copenhagen University Hospital, Was part of the research team behind the new findings. She says that the findings shed light on a long-standing debate among researchers on the so-called triglycerides, atherosclerosis and cholesterol. She says:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> "To be able to examine the relationship between ugly cholesterol and heart disease, we have used blood samples from persons having a mutation which means that they suffer from high ugly cholesterol their entire life. The research findings do therefore not depend on their lifestyle patterns in general. Unhealthy lifestyle factors such as smoking, fatty foods and overweight all increase the risk of heart disease, and the blood samples from persons having these mutations thus give the most accurate results"</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br />So, another good reason to watch your weight, it seems. And the best way to do that is with a low-carb, high-fat diet.<br /><br />Patents on statins are running out. What's the betting that BigPharma will now search for new drugs, or revamp existing ones for this 'new' use. And when those patents run out, no doubt there will be another 'cholesterol' discovered, and then another, and so on . . . until we have The Magnificent Seven.<br /><br /><br /><br />Journal Reference:<br />1. Anette Varbo, Marianne Benn, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Anders B. Jørgensen, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Børge G. Nordestgaard. Remnant Cholesterol as a Causal Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.08.1026<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-32978701670528178872013-01-02T16:09:00.002+00:002013-01-02T16:14:58.939+00:00Study Finds Eating Fructose May Stimulate Overeating<h2 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating.<br /><br />After drinking a fructose beverage, the brain doesn't register the feeling of being full as it does when simple glucose is consumed, researchers found.<br /><br />It's a small study and does not prove that fructose or its relative, high-fructose corn syrup, can cause obesity, but experts say it adds evidence they may play a role.<br /><br />The sugars often are added to processed foods and beverages and consumption has risen dramatically since the 1970s along with obesity.<br /><br />A third of US children and teens and more than two-thirds of adults are obese or overweight.<br /><br />All sugars are not equal </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— </span></span></span>even though they contain the same amount of calories — because they are metabolised differently in the body.<br /><br />Table sugar is sucrose, which is half fructose, half glucose, while high-fructose corn syrup is 55<span style="font-size: small;">%</span> fructose and 45% glucose. Some nutrition experts say this sweetener may pose special risks, but others and the industry reject that claim.<br /><br />Doctors say we eat too much sugar in all forms.<br /><br />For the study, scientists used magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans to track blood flow in the brain in 20 young, normal-weight people before and after they had drinks containing glucose or fructose in two sessions several weeks apart.<br /><br />Scans showed that drinking glucose "turns off or suppresses the activity of areas of the brain that are critical for reward and desire for food", said one study leader, Yale University endocrinologist Dr Robert Sherwin.<br /><br />With fructose, "we don't see those changes," he said.<br /><br />"As a result, the desire to eat continues - it isn't turned off."<br /><br />What's convincing, said Dr. Jonathan Purnell, an endocrinologist at Oregon Health<b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">and</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span> Science University, is that the imaging results mirrored how hungry the people said they felt, as well as what earlier studies found in animals.<br /><br />"It implies that fructose, at least with regards to promoting food intake and weight gain, is a bad actor compared to glucose," said Purnell.<br /><br />He wrote a commentary that appears with the federally funded study in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Researchers are now testing obese people to determine if they react the same way to fructose and glucose as the normal-weight people in the study.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But there is <span style="font-size: small;">o</span>ne other source of fructose which the study neglected </span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— <span style="font-size: small;">f</span>ruit. While many already know that high-fructose corn syrup is not healthy, we are told by the 'experts' that fruit is<span style="font-size: small;"> healthy</span>. <span style="font-size: small;">Yet</span> the sugar tha<span style="font-size: small;">t <span style="font-size: small;">makes fruit </span>sweet<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> i</span>s <span style="font-size: small;">pure </span></span></span>fructose! Go <span style="font-size: small;">f<span style="font-size: small;">igure, as our American cousin<span style="font-size: small;">s say.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Source</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Page KA et al. Effects of Fructose vs Glucose on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Brain Regions Involved With Appetite and Reward Pathways. <i>JAMA</i>. 2013;309(1):63-70</span></span></span></div>
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<![endif]--><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-29220605308799092752012-12-21T19:51:00.002+00:002012-12-21T19:51:38.056+00:00Was the mother right to refuse treatment?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Supports Chapters One and Two?</span></span></b></span><br /><br />Everyone (in the UK at least) must know of Neon, the seven-year-old boy who has a brain tumour, medulloblastoma, and of Neon's mother, Sally Roberts, who is fighting for her son not to have radiotherapy and chemotherapy because of the danger, she says, of adverse side effects which could damage his brain and destroy his quality of life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%A2http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251441/Cancer-boy-Neon-WILL-radiotherapy-mothers-wishes-High-Court-ruling.html" target="_blank"><i>Daily Mail</i></a>, today, put it this way:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Cancer boy Neon WILL have radiotherapy against his mother's wishes after High Court ruling. </b></span></h4>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mr Justice Bodey said he was worried Sally Roberts judgement had 'gone awry'</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mrs Roberts had tried to claim her son should have alternative treatment to radiotherapy </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Experts brand her alternatives 'completely unethical' </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> She conceded that her argument is 'weak' under questioning </span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />I don't intend to take sides on this issue (although you can probably guess which side I might be on). But if you are wondering if Mrs Roberts has a case, here is the abstract from a 2003 study about the long-term effects on survivors of exactly the treatment a judge has decided her son must have:</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Macedoni-Luksic M, Jereb B, Todorovski L. Long-term sequelae in children treated for brain tumors: impairments, disability, and handicap. <i>Pediatr Hematol Oncol</i>. 2003; 20: 89-101.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b> Abstract</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sixty-one long-term survivors, treated for brain tumors in childhood, were evaluated in term of neurological impairments, disability, and handicap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thirty-eight patients (pts) (62%) had at least one impairment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visual impairment was detected in 14 pts (24%), associated with recurrence (p = .012).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">34r pts (56%) had motor impairment, associated with sex (female) in irradiated patients;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13 (21%) had epilepsy, associated with supratentorial tumor site (p = .001).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The same number of patients had brain atrophy; risk factors were hydrocephalus at diagnosis and perioperative complications.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">16 pts (30%) had IQ score < 80, associated with young age at first treatment (p = .006) and recurrence (p = .043).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">27 out of 61 of our patients (44%) were disabled: 12 mildly, 14 moderately, and 1 severely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Epilepsy was the most important risk factor for disability.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cognitive impairment, motor impairment, and epilepsy were associated with employment (43%);</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cognitive impairment was also associated with education.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b> So is Mrs Roberts right to be worried about her son's having conventional treatment? Has her judgement 'gone awry'? You decide.</b><br /><br /> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-49638704162467451022012-12-15T10:42:00.000+00:002012-12-15T10:42:00.427+00:00Fluoride drugs and violent deathsThis week and last week saw the violent deaths of many people including young children, at the hands of young men on the rampage in the USA. Understandably, there are calls for changes in the gun laws. But the fact that American can carry guns is not the cause of the problem.<br />
<br />
It isn't guns that kill people; it is people who kill people.<br />
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The US has a long history of such outrages. And is pretty much alone as a country to suffer in this way, despite the fact that guns are carried, legally, in other countries - whose citizens don't go around on killing sprees.<br />
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So, instead of blaming the weapons, wouldn't it be more profitable to research the cause? To ask why some people feel the need to go kill a bunch of others and then (usually) themselves?<br />
<br />
In the 1990s I was researching fluoridation of water supplies. But as I did my research, I came across examples of the harm that fluoridated drugs could do. Just like the killings in last two weeks, there have been examples of children going on a killing sprees and shooting their parents, school friends, teachers, other people and then themselves for decades.<br />
<br />
I don't know whether the recent perpetrators of these outrages were on drugs but back in the last century, I found that many, if not all, of them appeared to be taking the SSRI drug, Prozac.<br />
<br />
Below is an extract from my book, <i>Fluoride: Drinking ourselves to death? </i>I wrote this in 1999; it is still relevant today. Searching PubMed today, I could find no medical research that addresses the problem. Perhaps it is about time there was some!<br />
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<b>Fluoride
drugs and violent deaths</b></div>
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Many
antidepressive drugs contain fluoride because of its profound effect on mood.
Fluanxol, Motipress, Motival, Parstelin and the biggest seller, Prozac, are all
highly fluorinated. Hypothyroidism, which they produce, can induce almost any
psychiatric symptom or syndrome, including rage, fear ranging from mild anxiety
to frank paranoia, mood swings and aggression.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Recently the USA has seen an alarming rise
in apparently motiveless killings where individuals - usually men, but also
children - have taken a gun and shot several people before shooting themselves.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The number of people, including preschool
children, prescribed antidepressants and stimulants rose in the mid-1990s
despite limited knowledge about the effects of such drugs on young children.
The reasons for prescribing such medications in young children include pain
relief, anxiety associated with medical, pre-surgery and dental procedures, bed
wetting and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children aged three
years and older. Yet, 'Unresolved questions involve the long-term safety of
psychotropic medications, particularly in light of earlier ages of initiation
and longer durations of treatment'.1 </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In an early case, a young defendant was
found not guilty because he committed a murder 'in the course of a hypothyroid
psychosis'. . . 'He was later judged to be not guilty by reason of insanity,
although he was clearly sane at the time of his trial.'2</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The University of Maryland looked at
200,000 patients in three areas of the country. It found that use of stimulants
and antidepressants rose in all the areas between 1991 and 1995. Julie Zito,
principal author of the study, said that some of the drugs' uses are not
included in warnings on drug packages. While this is not uncommon with some
drugs for adults, there is no information on how these psychotropic drugs work
for children.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In a recent rampage that has become
frighteningly familiar in the USA, a fifteen-year-old Springfield, Oregon,
student, Kip Kinkel, dressed in a trench coat, ran through a crowded school
cafeteria firing his rifle from the hip. He killed a classmate and critically
wounding several others. The Associated Press headline read: </div>
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<b>OREGON
SHOOTING: YET ANOTHER WARNING OF THE DANGERS OF PROZAC AND ITS CLONES</b>.3</div>
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This
was frighteningly similar to a violent episode which took place in Louisville,
Kentucky in 1989. Joseph Wesbecker stepped out of an elevator at work firing an
AK47 semiautomatic assault rifle. Twelve people were wounded and eight killed
before Joseph Wesbecker took his own life. One victim described him as 'totally
devoid of human element and human soul.'</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kip Kinkel was restrained before he could
take his life, but begged others to shoot him when they tackled him. Both men
were taking Prozac at the time.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Prozac's manufacturer, Eli Lilly has
repeatedly claimed that Prozac is safe. The International Coalition For Drug
Awareness (ICFDA), a non profit group that warns of potential serious adverse
reactions to prescription medications, reports that there is abundant evidence
in medical literature showing a link between Prozac and violence, as well as
suicide.</div>
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Dr.
Ann Blake Tracy, director of ICFDA, and author of <i>Prozac: Panacea Or
Pandora?</i>, has testified as an expert witness since 1992 in Prozac and
other antidepressant related criminal cases. Dr. Tracy poses the question, 'How
many patients have ever been warned that even something as simple as mixing
most major cough syrups with their use of these medications can produce PCP
(Angel Dust) like reactions?' 'We are sitting in the middle of this nation's
most dangerous drug problem and have not yet awakened to the seriousness of
this situation.'</div>
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Wesbecker
and Kinkel are only two of a growing number of violent cases committed by
people taking Prozac or one of its clones:</div>
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<ol>
<li>A mother on Prozac in San Francisco smothered her three small daughters by
wrapping their hands and faces with duct tape and attempted to take her own
life</li>
<li>A man in Los Angeles on Prozac committed suicide in front of TV cameras.</li>
<li>A lottery employee taking Luvox (a Prozac clone) in Connecticut shot and killed
four fellow workers before taking his own life</li>
<li>A man in Wyoming taking Paxil (another Prozac clone) shot and killed his wife,
daughter and baby grand-daughter before he took his own life.</li>
</ol>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now four more are dead and Kinkel is
facing a life without his parents and several classmates. He also faces
spending the rest of his life in prison while he slowly comes to a realization
of what he did in this drug-induced stupor.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>According to internal company documents
made public in court cases filed against Eli Lilly, in 1990 they attempted to
protect their 'golden goose' (Prozac was bringing in over $6 million a day). Dr
Leigh Thompson went 'against the advice of his staff' and told the board of
directors that suicide and hostile acts committed by Prozac users were, in all
probability, caused by the patients' underlying disorders rather than Prozac.
On 7 November 1990 he asked, 'What are our priorities?'</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Of course priority number one for Eli
Lilly was to protect Prozac.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In December 1993 the world heard that
Prozac had been found 'not guilty' in the murderous rampage and suicide of
Joseph Wesbecker. But, in fact, Eli Lilly had paid millions of dollars to settle
out of court. The judge was so upset about the secrecy and deception
surrounding the case that he called for an additional hearing to force Lilly to
admit this publicly. He succeeded, and Lilly and the plaintiffs were forced to
admit that this was indeed a settlement and not a 'not guilty' verdict for
Prozac.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>In another Prozac case against Lilly
(Forsyth v. Lilly) currently being tried in Federal District Court in Hawaii,
Judge Alan C. Kay ruled: </div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>'Lilly falsified reports of side effects of
suicide attempts by reporting them as overdoses.'</li>
<li><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>'material issues of fact exist as to whether
Lilly deliberately suppressed adverse studies.'</li>
<li>'The Court finds that Plaintiffs have
presented sufficient evidence to show that Lilly may have acted wantonly, oppressively,
or with such malice as implies a spirit of mischief or criminal indifference.'</li>
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http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-48488833916089972302012-12-08T21:23:00.000+00:002012-12-08T21:23:02.723+00:00Link Between Vitamin D And Women's Cognitive Performance<h2>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Supports Chapter 11: Our irrational fear of sunlight</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And so to December 2012:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Two new studies have just been published in the<i> Journals of Gerontology Series A:
Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences</i> which show that vitamin D may be a vital component for the
cognitive health of women as they age. <br />
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Higher vitamin D dietary intake is associated with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's, according to research
conducted by a team led by Cedric Annweiler, MD, PhD, at the Angers University
Hospital in France. <br />
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Similarly, investigators led by Yelena Slinin, MD, MS, at the VA Medical Center
in Minneapolis found that low vitamin D levels among older women are associated
with higher odds of global cognitive impairment and a higher risk of global
cognitive decline. <br />
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Slinin's group based its analysis on 6,257 community-dwelling older women who
had vitamin D levels measured during the Study of Osteopathic Fractures and
whose cognitive function was tested by the Mini-Mental State Examination and/or
Trail Making Test Part B. <br />
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Very low levels of vitamin D (less than 10 nanograms per milliliter of blood
serum) among older women were associated with higher odds of global cognitive
impairment at baseline, and low vitamin D levels (less than 20 nanograms per
milliliter) among cognitively-impaired women were associated with a higher risk
of incident global cognitive decline, as measured by performance on the
Mini-Mental State Examination. <br />
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Annweieler's team's findings were based on data from 498 community-dwelling
women who participated in the Toulouse cohort of the Epidemiology of
Osteoporosis study. <br />
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Among this population, women who developed Alzheimer's disease had lower
baseline vitamin D intakes (an average of 50.3 micrograms per week) than those
who developed other dementias (an average of 63.6 micrograms per
week) or no dementia at all (an average of 59.0 micrograms per week). <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Another case of 'cause and effect', as a result of incompetent health advisers.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Source</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="margin-left: -20px;">n.p. (2012, December 4). "Link Between Vitamin D And Women's Cognitive Performance."</span> <i>Medical News Today</i>. Retrieved from<br /><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/253481.php">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/253481.php</a> </span></span></div>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-86498676417489310042012-10-04T16:05:00.000+01:002012-10-04T16:05:56.501+01:00Fraud In Published Scientific Papers Rises Dramatically<h2>
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Supports Chapter One: Trick to Treat</b></span></span></h2>
<b>In the first chapter of Trick and Treat, I outlined the vast amount of fraud, ghost-writing, and spin that was to be found in medical journals' articles. </b><br />
<br />
<b>I wrote that in 2008. As this article from Medical News Today, Weekly Newsletter - 3 October 2012, points out, little has changed. In fact the problem might well be getting worse.</b><br /><br />Article Date: 02 Oct 2012 - 12:00 PDT<br /><br />Fraud, suspected fraud, plagiarism and duplicate publications are the main reasons why scientific papers are retracted today, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine reported in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) today.<br /><br />Misconduct occurs at ten times the rate it used to in 1975 among scientific papers - scientific papers refers to articles that are published in academic journals. Two thirds of all retractions today are due to misconduct.<br /><br />Senior author Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D., the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Chair and professor of microbiology & immunology and professor of medicine at Einstein, and also editor-in-chief of mBio said:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Biomedical research has become a winner-take-all game-one with perverse incentives that entice scientists to cut corners and, in some instances, falsify data or commit other acts of misconduct."</blockquote>
A survey carried out by the <i>BMJ</i> (<i>British Medical Journal</i>) in January 2012 revealed that 13% of doctors and scientists had seen colleagues deliberately fabricate or change data during their research to make sure that it was published.<br /><br />The authors examined 2,047 articles that had been retracted from biomedical literature up to the end of May 2012. They had set out to find out why retractions occur. They consulted several secondary sources, including the NIH (National Institutes of Health, the Office of Research Integrity, as well as Retractionwatch.com.<br /><br />The authors found that:<br />21% of retractions were due to mistakes (error)<br /><br />67% of retractions were due to misconduct, which was broken down as:<br /> - fraud or suspected fraud 43%<br /> - duplicate publication 14%<br /> - plagiarism 10%<br /> - unknown or "miscellaneous" reasons 12%<br /><br />
The problem with very skillful fraud, Dr. Casadevall said, is that it is hard to discover. There are probably several fraudulent papers still published and not retracted because misconduct has not yet been detected.<br /><br />The authors explained that previous studies that underestimated the extent of scientific misconduct had relied completely on notices of retraction issued by the journal, which are written by the authors of the papers themselves.<br /><br />Dr. Casadevall said:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Many of those notices are wrong. Authors commonly write, 'We regret we have to retract our paper because the work is not reproducible,' which is not exactly a lie. The work indeed was not reproducible - because it was fraudulent. Researchers try to protect their labs and their reputations, and these retractions are written in such a way that you often don't know what really happened."</blockquote>
The report showed that higher-impact factor journals seem to have especially high retraction rates. Dr. Casadevall said that today scientists are disproportionately rewarded for publishing lots of papers, which should ideally appear in prestigious journals - most likely this kind of pressure has contributed to the growing number of retractions.<br /><br />Dr. Casadevall said:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Particularly if you get your papers accepted in certain journals, you're much more likely to get recognition, grants, prizes and better jobs or promotions. Scientists are human, and some of them will succumb to this pressure, especially when there's so much competition for funding. Perhaps our most telling finding is what happened after 2005, which is when the number of retractions began to skyrocket. That's exactly when NIH funding began to get very tight."</blockquote>
Dr. Casadevall had put forward a number of solutions to address the problem of scientific misconduct in the journal Infection and Immunity, which included:<br />
<ul>
<li>There should be more emphasis on the quality of publications rather than how many are published</li>
<li>When rating journals, there should not be so much emphasis on impact measures</li>
<li>The research community should aim for more cooperation and collaboration</li>
<li>More sustainable, stable and reliable resources for research funding should be developed</li>
<li>Career pathways should offer scientists more flexibility to make sure talented professionals are not loss due to poor funding</li>
</ul>
Retractions come from very few laboratories<br /><br />The authors stressed that not all is gloom and doom. Dr. Casadevall explained that 38 laboratories accounted for 43% of all retractions last year. There are thousands and thousands of labs whose scientists publish articles in academic journals.<br /><br />Dr. Casadevall said:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"So while we're not looking at a systemic disease, so to speak, in the scientific community, our findings do indicate a significant problem that needs to be addressed."</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Supports Chapter 19: 'Healthy eating' is fattening</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A few days
ago, England’s Euro 2012 football team lost a quarter-final match to Italy on
penalties. This scenario has happened so regularly that one might call it the ‘England
finish’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It has also
happened so regularly that it hasn’t been difficult to see a pattern emerging
for some years: England just run
out of energy; they aren’t able to sustain 90 minutes of football.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The question
is: Why? And the answer, which I have been convinced of for some years, was their
rubbish carb-based diet. I am no lover of football, so have never watched a
game, but commentaries on news bulletins spell out the form. To précis it, the England
team always seem to start the game full of bounce, have most of the possession
and often take the lead, then I all goes wrong. At half time they fill up on Jaffa
cakes - and are so rubbish during the second half that they lose. But this, is
exactly what I would expect. Carbs not only result in reactive hypoglycaemia
(you run out of blood glucose), they also raise serotonin, a hormone that makes
you sleepy and slows you down. This is why people are advised to have a carb
meal before going to bed. But both of these conditions are the last thing you should
eat if you have to work – or play football.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now a study
just published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journal of the American
Medical Association</i> finds another good reason why the carbs, so favoured by
the England team’s nutritionists, are so devastating to their game: Carbs, it
now appears, as well as everything else that is wrong with them, actively slow
down the rate at which your body can use its energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here is the abstract
of the study – and an explanation as it is a bit convoluted:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ebbeling CB, et al. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Effects of
Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance.<b> </b></span><i>JAMA
</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">2012;307(24):2627-2634</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ABSTRACT</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Context </span></b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Reduced energy expenditure following
weight loss is thought to contribute to weight gain. However, the effect of
dietary composition on energy expenditure during weight-loss maintenance has
not been studied.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Objective </span></b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To examine the effects of 3 diets
differing widely in macronutrient composition and glycemic load on energy
expenditure following weight loss.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Design, Setting, and Participants </span></b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A controlled
3-way crossover design involving 21 overweight and obese young adults conducted
at Children’s Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts, between June 16, 2006, and June 21, 2010, with recruitment by
newspaper advertisements and postings.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Intervention </span></b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">After achieving 10% to 15% weight
loss while consuming a run-in diet, participants consumed an isocaloric low-fat
diet (60% of energy from carbohydrate, 20% from fat, 20% from protein; high
glycemic load), low–glycemic index diet (40% from carbohydrate, 40% from fat,
and 20% from protein; moderate glycemic load), and very low-carbohydrate diet
(10% from carbohydrate, 60% from fat, and 30% from protein; low glycemic load)
in random order, each for 4 weeks.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Main Outcome Measures </span></b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Primary outcome was resting energy
expenditure (REE), with secondary outcomes of total energy expenditure (TEE),
hormone levels, and metabolic syndrome components.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Results </span></b><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Compared with the pre–weight-loss
baseline, the decrease in REE was greatest with the low-fat diet (mean [95%
CI], –205 [–265 to –144] kcal/d), intermediate with the low–glycemic index diet
(–166 [–227 to –106] kcal/d), and least with the very low-carbohydrate diet
(−138 [–198 to –77] kcal/d; overall <i>P</i>=.03; <i>P </i>for trend by glycemic
load=.009). The decrease in TEE showed a similar pattern (mean [95% CI], −423
[–606 to –239] kcal/d; −297 [–479 to –115] kcal/d; and −97 [–281 to 86] kcal/d,
respectively; overall <i>P</i>=.003; <i>P </i>for trend by glycemic load<.001).
Hormone levels and metabolic syndrome components also varied during weight
maintenance by diet (leptin, <i>P</i><.001; 24-hour urinary cortisol, <i>P</i>=.005;
indexes of peripheral [<i>P</i>=.02] and hepatic [<i>P</i>=.03] insulin
sensitivity; high-density lipoprotein [HDL] cholesterol, <i>P</i><.001; non-HDL
cholesterol, <i>P</i><.001; triglycerides, <i>P</i><.001; plasminogen
activator inhibitor 1, <i>P </i>for tre<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">nd=.04; and C-reactive protein, </span><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">P </i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">for
trend=.05), but no consistent favourable pattern emerged.</span></span></div>
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adults compared with pre–weightloss energy expenditure, isocaloric feeding following
10% to 15% weight loss resulted in decreases in REE and TEE that were greatest
with the low-fat diet, intermediate with the low–glycemic index diet, and least
with the very low-carbohydrate diet.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is a
study looking at weight loss, but in a different way from normal. Usually, scientists
look at the amount of weight lost and/or for how long. This one is different;
here they are considering how the different macronutrients affect energy usage. To make it confusing, the authors don't talk about energy usage, they talk in terms of 'decrease' in amount of energy used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The study
looks at two aspects of energy usage. A person has to use a certain amount of
energy just to keep their body alive: These are things like the heart beating, brain
working, keeping the body warm, etc, which they call “</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">resting energy expenditure”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> (REE). This is relatively constant at
approximately 1,500 kcals for an average-sized person. On top of that is the amount of energy we use when
we do work or exercise. The total of the two is the total energy expenditure (TEE).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here we have
three different diets with same amount of calories, but with different ratios
of carbs, proteins and fats. In this respect it is similar to the Dunlop &
Lyon study of 1932 and Kekwick & Pawan’s 1956 study, both of which found
that the lowest carb diet was the best for weight loss. With a similar finding,
this latest study tells us why. When they ate the 60% carb diet, the
participants used the least energy. It even cut the amount of energy used to maintain the body (REE). The diet on which they used the most energy (both REE and TEE)
was the diet which had the least carbs and most fats.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Diet and exercise</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So, if you are counting
calories and exercising to lose weight, as the ‘experts’ say you should, then,
obviously, when you exercise, you want to use as much energy as possible. There
isn’t much point in jogging lots of boring miles if you are not going to use up
energy – and thus weight - right? But this study shows that if you eat the diet
these incompetent ‘experts’ advise you to eat, you won’t lose as much as you would
if your diet was high-fat, low-carb!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And if you
are an England footballer, you really don’t want to have to eat a diet that destroys
your ability to use all your energy. Or a nutritionist/dietician who insists on
it!</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-1846016967013536422012-06-19T21:07:00.001+01:002012-06-19T21:07:19.116+01:00Now, Statins May Increase Heart Attack Risk!<div style="color: red;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Supports Chapter 2: What's Behind The Screens?</b></span></div>
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<h1>
</h1>
It is widely believed that atherosclerosis, the 'furring up' of the arteries, narrows the coronary arteries and makes a heart attack more likely in two ways: Firstly, a clot in a partially blocked artery is more likely to block it completely, cutting off the blood supply downstream; and secondly, the atherosclerosis itself may block the artery with a similar result.<br />
<br />
Many laymen have been led to believe that cholesterol is to blame for the blockage, or 'plaque', but this is hotly disputed. Much more likely, it seems, is that calcification of the artery wall, which hardens the artery wall making it less pliable, is the cause.<br />
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<h3>
<span style="font-size: small;">Statin Use Tied to Faster Plaque Buildup</span></h3>
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A small observational American study of war veterans with diabetes and advanced coronary heart disease has found that those who
regularly took statins had accelerated progression of calcification. This current
analysis included 197 participants with type 2 diabetes from the Risk
Factors, Atherosclerosis, and Clinical Events in Diabetes (RACED) study,
a substudy of the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT) study.<br />
<br />
Study participants who were frequent
statin users were found to have significantly more coronary plaque advancement than
those who were less frequent users (<em>P</em><0.001), according to Aramesh Saremi, MD, and colleagues from the Phoenix VA Health Care System in Arizona. <br />
<br />
The
results remained the same even after adjusting for age, duration of
diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular events, baseline coronary artery
calcium, race and ethnicity, blood pressure, total cholesterol/high
density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and body mass index, Saremi's
team reported here at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes
Association.<br />
<br />
But Cam Patterson, MD, from the
Center for Heart and Vascular Care at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, and who was not involved in this study, warned that it would be a 'horrible mistake to infer that
strict compliance with statin use is somehow causally associated with
progression of atherosclerosis<em></em>. Adding that he thought that such a conclusion is definitively a false one.<br />
<br />
'The
patients who were more compliant with statin therapy had much higher
calcium scores at baseline, so these are obviously patients who had a
substantially greater propensity for atherosclerosis to begin with,'
Patterson said<em></em>. He suggested that patients who already have vascular disease are more likely to be compliant with their statins.<br />
<br />
Saremi
does not disagree with Patterson; the progression of calcification may
be linked to the healing of soft plaque initiated by statin therapy.<br />
<br />
'It's important now to determine whether this progression of calcification leads to cardiovascular events.<br />
<br />
She
also suggested that if diabetics are put on statins earlier in the
course of their disease, when their calcium scores are low, there may
not be such a rapid advancement of calcification. But this is unsupported supposition.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
In
this substudy, 36 patients reported less frequent statin use,
while 161 reported more frequent use. The mean age of patients was 61
and the average follow-up was 4.6 years.<br />
In the unadjusted model, researchers found that every 10% increase in statin use was associated with a 0.41 mm<sup>3</sup> increase in coronary calcium progression (<em>P</em><0.01), which did not change much in the adjusted model: 0.33 mm<sup>3</sup> increase (<em>P</em>=0.04).<br />
<br />
When researchers excluded those with prior or new cardiovascular events, the risk for calcium progression remained the same.<br />
<br />
Saremi
and colleagues speculated that statins may enhance the density of calcification
as part of the healing process, potentially contributing to plaque
stabilization and decreased cardiovascular disease events . But this is more unsupported speculation (they don't like to give up on statins, even though statins have also been shown to increase diabetes risk). However,
they did also suggest that the advancement of plaque in type 2 diabetics
who frequently took statins may lessen the medication's overall
benefit.<br />
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<h3>
<b>Reference:</b></h3>
Saremi A, et al. Progression of vascular calcification is
increased with statin use in the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT)"
<em>ADA</em> 2012; Abstract 426-P. <br />
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-49157392181885267572012-05-30T14:19:00.001+01:002012-05-30T14:19:51.497+01:00Doctors to go on strike. I hope it is a long one!<div style="color: red;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Doctors strike -- and death rates fall</b></span></div>
<br />
<br />
Doctors don't often go on strike, but it has happened sufficiently often
for a disturbing trend to be noticed. During the rare times that they
have gone on strike -- in several countries -- the death rate has always
gone down.<br />
<br />
In 2000, Israeli doctors employed in public hospitals pursued a course
of industrial action. This included the cancellation of outpatient
clinics and the postponement of all routine surgery. And this limited
strike action had some unusual consequences. Throughout Israel, while
the doctors were on strike, death rates fell. The coastal city of
Netanya has only one hospital whose staff members had a 'no strike'
clause in their contracts. As a result, doctors in Netanya continued to
work normally -- and death rates remained stubbornly the same, failing
to reflect the reduction that was shown in almost all of the rest of the
country.[1] <br />
<br />
And it wasn't the first time; doctors in Israel went on strike in 1973,
and reduced their total daily patient contacts from 65,000 to just
7,000. The strike lasted a month and during that time the death rate,
according to the Jerusalem Burial Society, dropped by half. <br />
<br />
It doesn't just happen in Israel. The 1960s saw physicians in Canada go
on strike and the mortality rate dropped. In 1976, in Bogota, Colombia,
doctors refused to treat all but emergency cases for a period of 52
days, and in that time the death rate fell by 35%.[2] <br />
<br />
In the same year the death rate dropped 18% during a 'slow-down' by
doctors in Los Angeles. After the strike, deaths rates jumped to 3%
above normal for more than five weeks as the Los Angeles doctors caught
up on their paperwork.[3] <br />
<br />
And it is a standing joke among cardiologists that death rates fall
during their conferences because fewer of them are attempting to cure
moribund patients by doing dangerous surgery.<br />
<br />
So, it's a fair assumption that the longer doctors strike, the safer we are likely to be.<br />
<br />
<b>References</b><br />
1. Siegel-Itzkovich J. Doctors' strike in Israel may be good for health. <i>BMJ</i> 2000; 320:1561.<br />
2. Horne, Ross. <i>Health & Survival In The 21st Century</i>.
HarperCollins Publishers Pty Limited, Australia, 1997. Chapter 11. <br />
3. <i>Science News</i>, 28 Oct 1978; 114: 293.<br />
<br />
<b>See Chapter one of </b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trick-Treat-Healthy-Eating-Making/dp/1905140223/ref=pd_sim_b_1" target="_blank"><b>Trick & Treat: How 'healthy eating' is making us ill</b> </a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-12961402621772731802012-04-18T10:50:00.004+01:002012-04-18T11:38:31.881+01:00Heart failure and vitamin D. But what about sunlight?<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Supports Chapter Eleven: Our irrational fear of sunlight</span><br /><span><br />Vitamin D, just like all other vitamins, is essential not just to our health, but to life itself. Vitamin D is actually not really a vitamin, because our bodies can synthsize it from cholesterol in our skin with the action of the ultra-violet end of the spectrum of sunlight. But as the specific wavelength - UVB - is attenuated by the atmosphere, there is no point in sunbathing when the sun is low in the sky. We have to be in the sun, <span style="font-weight: bold;">with as little clothing on as possible, and no sunscreen</span>, when the sun is so high in the sky that our shadow is no longer than we are. In other words, in the middle of the day. But that is exactly what we are told by the 'experts' not to do!<br /><br />There is very little food which contains vitamin D. </span><span>And vitamin D is one of the four fat-soluble vitamins (the others are A, E, and K). But fat is 'bad for us', isn't it! So the incompetent 'experts' also advise us to shun the only foods which can help.</span><span><br /><br />It should come as no surprise, therefore, that severe vitamin D deficiency is a widespread health problem throughout the industrialised world.<br /></span><br /><span>Now a study just published in the <span style="font-style: italic;">European Journal of Heart Failure</span> points out a growing serious health issue caused by this misguided advice. The Abstract of that study is below:<br /><hr /><blockquote><br />Israel Gotsman, Ayelet Shauer, Donna R. Zwas, et al. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vitamin D deficiency is a predictor of reduced survival in patients with heart failure; vitamin D supplementation improves outcome.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Eur J Heart Fail</span> (2012) 14 (4):357-366.doi: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfr175<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Abstract</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aims </span>Vitamin D deficiency is a highly prevalent, global phenomenon. The prevalence in heart failure (HF) patients and its effect on outcome are less clear. We evaluated vitamin D levels and vitamin D supplementation in patients with HF and its effect on mortality.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Methods and results</span> 25-Hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels were evaluated in HF patients from a health maintenance organization (HMO), and compared them with those of the rest of the members of the HMO. Patients with HF (n = 3009) had a lower median 25(OH)D level compared with the control group (n = 46 825): 36.9 nmol/L (interquartile range 23.2–55.9) vs. 40.7 nmol/L (26.7–56.9), respectively, P < 0.00001. The percentage of patients with vitamin D deficiency [25(OH)D <25 nmol/L] was higher in patients with HF compared with the control group (28% vs. 22%, P < 0.00001). Only 8.8% of the HF patients had optimal 25(OH)D levels (≥75 nmol/L). Median clinical follow-up was 518 days. Cox regression analysis demonstrated that vitamin D deficiency was an independent predictor of increased mortality in patients with HF [hazard ratio (HR) 1.52, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.21–1.92, P < 0.001] and in the control group (HR 1.91, 95% CI 1.48–2.46, P < 0.00001). Vitamin D supplementation was independently associated with reduced mortality in HF patients (HR 0.68, 95% CI 0.54–0.85, P < 0.0001). Parameters associated with vitamin D deficiency in HF patients were decreased previous solar radiation exposure, body mass index, diabetes, female gender, pulse, and decreased calcium and haemoglobin levels.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusions </span>Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in HF patients and is a significant predictor of reduced survival. Vitamin D supplementation was associated with improved outcome.<br /><hr /><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Comment<br /></span></span>Note the last sentence. "Vitamin D supplementation" improves survival. So they only consider treating the problem after it has been caused. What's wrong with advising people to get out in the sun more?<br /><br />Incidentally, I do get out in the sun as much as possible. It doesn't need a lot: half an hour a day at midday is sufficient. I had my serum vitamin D checked a couple of weeks ago. It was 150.8nmol/L. And I aim to keep it that way.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-71642521929697930652012-03-13T16:52:00.006+00:002012-03-13T18:13:22.733+00:00Study finds red meat may not be edible - but only in the US<div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Supports<br />Chapter 5: Fats: from tonic to toxic<br />Chapter 23: Cancer: disease of civilization </span><br /><br />Many in the UK will have heard on the news today that yet another study from Harvard University [1] has linked the eating of red and processed meat with an increased risk of heart disease and cancer.<br /><br />This study is largely nonsense and quite irrelevant to us in the UK. There are lots of similar accusations about red meat, which really only apply (perhaps) to processed meat. The two are always lumped together just as saturated fats and trans fats are, even though the former is healthy and latter is harmful.<br /><br /></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">But there is more to this. Think of all the peoples in the world - Maasai, Inuit, Samburu, Marsh Arabs, Naga, and many more - who, when they lived exclusively or largely on red meat, DIDN'T get any form of cancer or heart disease.[2-8] There is also no evidence that eating red meat increases cancer and heart disease risk in UK or in mainland Europe.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">[9]</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">(</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">See also page 102 of T&T)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcW1BzKudo9gdLX5uBjXTFNMshRzXnh4pm-o2yidjmoN8Ba54Sbvdb_wFRDX0J7uXgzGH7ltDJW_7V5JSBJjQ6RreZhrSxyIFRlvOsxyOQ7ESEcuvBsmjSzoA_F8MBe0DdcW5V5_El/s1600/cows.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcW1BzKudo9gdLX5uBjXTFNMshRzXnh4pm-o2yidjmoN8Ba54Sbvdb_wFRDX0J7uXgzGH7ltDJW_7V5JSBJjQ6RreZhrSxyIFRlvOsxyOQ7ESEcuvBsmjSzoA_F8MBe0DdcW5V5_El/s400/cows.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719444681742209650" border="0" /></a>The right - healthy - way<br /></div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><br />You see, all this red-meat-cancer stuff is confined entirely to the US. And it is not difficult to see why this might be so. Firstly look at the way most cattle are farmed today in the US - in concentrated animal feed operations (CAFOs), where the animals are not fed their proper diet of fibrous grasses and vetches, but starchy and omega-6 rich genetically modified soy and cereal grains. This ruins the health of the cattle so that they have to be dosed with antibiotics, it changes the fatty acid components of their body fat, and it reduces the amount of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). And CLA is a powerful anti-cancer agent, which Americans cut off and don't eat!<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0vWoqJDgo4DPsnmJg937SvakRwsa88OMZKzJrZfAklJ5sTDQWv4OfIds7OyFt8zB30hjvA4dDQmE0ce7vjzFH6KnybWHQvzFaftM_DJkZJMcgYKekLmgzVQ_eR4TfQink0nbQCEIx/s1600/Feedlot-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0vWoqJDgo4DPsnmJg937SvakRwsa88OMZKzJrZfAklJ5sTDQWv4OfIds7OyFt8zB30hjvA4dDQmE0ce7vjzFH6KnybWHQvzFaftM_DJkZJMcgYKekLmgzVQ_eR4TfQink0nbQCEIx/s400/Feedlot-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719431491086688418" border="0" /></a>The wrong - unhealthy - way</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><br />And, as we all know, the US is so fat-phobic that even healthy animal fats are trimmed off and replaced with starchy and sugary carbs - which DO increase the risk of both diseases.<br /><br /></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">None of those things applies in the UK (except the fat-phobia). Incidentally, there is no evidence I know of that the processed meats found throughout Europe - bacon, ham, sausage, salami, wurst, cabernossi, chorizo, cassoulet, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">etc, are harmful in any way either.<br /><br /></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Calibri;">What this latest study really demonstrates (if it demonstrates anything at all) is that the red meat produced and processed in the US might be unhealthy, if consumed as part of a carb-rich diet. Which may be why the health of the US population is about the worst in the industrialised world.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">References</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">1. Pan A, Sun Q, Bernstein AM, et al. Red Meat Consumption and Mortality. </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Arch Intern Med. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2011.2287.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />2. Hoffman FL. The Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World. Newark, NJ: The Prudential Press, 1915.<br />3. Cope, J. Cancer: Civilization and Degeneration. London: 1932.<br />4. Berglas A. Cancer: Nature, Cause and Cure. Paris: Institute Pasteur, 1957.<br />5. McCarrison R. Studies in Deficiency Disease. Cornell University Library, 1921.<br />6. Jenness D. The Copper Eskimos. Vol. XII, Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. Ottawa: The King’s Printer, 1923.<br />7. Stefansson V. Cancer: Disease Of Civilization? American Book-Stratford Press, Inc. 1960, Chapter 14.<br />8. Mann GV (ed). Coronary Heart Disease: The dietary sense and nonsense. London: Veritas Society, 1993.<br />9. Cox BD, Whichelow MJ. Frequent consumption of red meat is not a risk factor for cancer. </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >BMJ</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> 1997; 315: 1018.<br /><br /></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-41427183860785404412012-01-31T14:05:00.005+00:002012-01-31T14:45:26.254+00:00Which is more reliable: a registered dietician or an unregistered nutritional therapist?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">This is an example of why I wrote Trick and Treat</span></span><br /><br />In January 2012, The Daily Mail published an article which began:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nutrition therapists condemned as 'quacks' who put patients' health at risk</span></span><br />Nutrition therapists have been condemned as quacks and accused of putting the health of the sick – including those suffering from breast cancer – at risk.<br />An industry has grown up based on the concept that ‘food doctor’ nutritionists can cure patients’ ills and allergies through diet.<br />However at least some of the practitioners, who charge up to £80 for a consultation, are providing advice that could harm health, a study by the consumer watchdog <span style="font-style: italic;">Which?</span> found.<br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2087167/Nutrition-therapists-condemned-quacks-patients-health-risk.html" a="">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2087167/Nutrition-therapists-condemned-quacks-patients-health-risk.html</a></blockquote><br />The article told readers that <span><span style="font-style:italic;">Which?</span></span> had found nutritional therapists who gave questionable advice, had charged high fees for it and were unlicensed. Well, they might have a point but there may also be another side to this story.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">Which?'s questionable methods</span></span><br /><br />The first point is that <span style="font-style: italic;">Which?</span>'s research methods and basic criteria are suspect. I have been on the receiving end of a <span style="font-style: italic;">Which?</span> story so I can write this with some authority.<br /><br />Back in 2001, <span style="font-style: italic;">Which?</span> magazine tested the 14 best-selling slimming diet books to see if the dietary advice they gave worked. My book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Eat Fat, Get Thin!</span> was one of those they 'tested'. But <span style="font-style: italic;">Which?</span> did not actually test them at all. Instead, they looked to see if the books recommended 'healthy eating' and, if they didn't, they were adjudged to be of no benefit, an were not recommended. But, as I knew then, and as much more recent research has confirmed, healthy eating is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">cause</span> of obesity. So, as I was more knowledgeable, I wrote <span style="font-style: italic;">Eat Fat, Get Thin!</span> to be of value to people wanting to lose weight, not to put more weight on. And for that reason, <span style="font-style: italic;">Eat Fat, Get Thin! </span>did not fit with their preconceived, but totally wrong criteria. The full story is at <a href="http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/which.html">http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/which.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">Is the same thing happening here?</span></span><br /><br />Okay, I give dietary advice, if asked, but I wouldn't suggest to a breast cancer sufferer that she disregard her oncologist's advice, just cut sugar out of her diet, and keep her fingers crossed. But I might well point her in the direction of published research so that she can make an informed decision.<br /><br />For example, the statistics for conventional breast cancer treatment are woefully bad at best, so a no-sugar diet might well work as effectively as (or even better than), say, chemotherapy, which is about 1.5% effective in breast cancer – and has lots of quality-of-life destroying adverse side effects. (<a href="www.whale.to/cancer/Chemo%20Australia%20Study.pdf">Morgan G, et al. The Contribution of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to 5-year Survival in Adult Malignancies.<span style="font-style: italic;"> Clinical Oncology</span> 2004; 16: 549-560. doi:10.1016/j.clon.2004.06.007</a>)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is registration a sign of quality?</span></span><br /><br />The other point that the<span style="font-style: italic;"> Daily Mail</span>'s article makes is that nutritional therapists are not registered or regulated, whereas dieticians are. And as the British Dietetic Association says: ‘Anybody can set up shop as a nutrition therapist, with no qualifications. Registered dieticians working in the UK are educated to degree level and must be registered with the Health Professions Council.’<br /><br />But is that a guarantee of getting good advice? In my experience it is not.<br /><br />In 2001, I was the interviewer and nutritional adviser in a documentary video which was attempting to sort out the confusion caused by books like mine and Atkins and the obvious conflict with current dietary advice. We interviewed nutritionists, dieticians and doctors as well as people attempting to lose weight. The doctors were fine: they knew that they didn't know much about diet. However, we found that registered nutritionists and dieticians were, to put it bluntly, ignorant, incompetent and arrogant. They were qualified; they knew their stuff – except they didn't! You can read about one of the interviews at <a href="http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/why-eat-5-portions-1.html">http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/why-eat-5-portions-1.html</a>.<br /><br />She was not alone. We interviewed two others. Neither of them knew much about foods, nutrients and the effects on the body of even basics such as carbohydrates and fats. One openly admitted, when she asked for and I showed her the questions to come – they were about ketones and the effects of exercise – that she couldn't answer any of them! In fact, by the third interview, an NF registered nutritionist, it was obvious even to our nutritionally-uneducated production crew that the interviewees were completely ignorant of even the basic facts and could do little more than waffle. After the first three, we didn't interview any others: they were obviously going to be a waste of money.<br /><br />In the end we didn't use any of these interviews in the documentary. We would have loved to, but couldn't: it would have ruined their careers.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">Why are people going to unregistered nutritional therapists?</span></span><br /><br />Registered nutritionists and dieticians effectively cost patients nothing: they are NHS-funded. To consult a nutritional therapist, on the other hand, is expensive. As the<span style="font-style: italic;"> Daily Mail</span> article points out, they might charge £80 ($120.00US) an hour. So why are people turning away from the registered dieticians and going to the alternatives?<br /><br />There can only be one answer: They are dissatisfied with the NHS. And, from talking to many of them, I know that it is the sheer incompetence, indifference and inability to look outside the box they encounter within the ranks of registered dieticians.<br /><br />I used to lecture on diabetes in hospitals to NHS diabetes staff. The NHS paid for me to do so. But the doctors, I found out, did not like what I was teaching – despite the fact that everything I said was backed by solid evidence and research published in their own medical journals. They had been taught one thing (and learned nothing) and nothing I said or was published subsequently was going to alter their minds or their treatment protocols. And so, diseases such as diabetes, obesity and other conditions associated with these diseases, continue to spiral upwards exponentially, while an ignorant and arrogant – but all powerful – regulated and registered 'health industry' bemoans the facts and suggests it's all the fault of their patients.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The bottom line</span></span><br /><br />As I see it, any patient has two options: The first is to read articles on the Internet and select a nutritional therapist who might or might not know what they are talking about, or go to a qualified member of the British Dietetic Association and be sure that they don't.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-14458949947082278212012-01-20T13:22:00.002+00:002012-01-20T13:48:20.052+00:00Doctors Threaten Strike; Others want us all to be guinea pigs<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="author"><span style="font-size:130%;">Supports Chapter One: Trick to Treat</span></p>Two pieces of news hit my computer almost simultaneously this week. One was good and one was bad. But together they illustrate what is wrong with medicine today.<br /><br />The good news is that doctors, unsatisfied with a new pensions proposal by the British government are threatening to go on strike.[1]<br /><br />The bad news is that a couple of very scary doctors in Oxford suggest that we healthy people should be forced to risk serious, possible fatal, illness by being injected with cocktails of bacterial and viral debris in the search for more effective vaccines.[2]<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Doctors strike – and death rates fall</span></span><br /><br />Doctors don’t often go on strike, but it has happened sufficiently often for a disturbing trend to be noticed. During the rare times that they have gone on strike – in several countries – the death rate has always gone down.<br /><br />In 2000, Israeli doctors employed in public hospitals pursued a course of industrial action. This included the cancellation of outpatient clinics and the postponement of all routine surgery. And this limited strike action had some unusual consequences. Throughout Israel, while the doctors were on strike, death rates fell. The coastal city of Netanya has only one hospital whose staff members had a ‘no strike’ clause in their contracts. As a result, doctors in Netanya continued to work normally – and death rates remained stubbornly the same, failing to reflect the reduction that was shown in almost all of the rest of the country.[3]<br /><br />And it wasn’t the first time; doctors in Israel had gone on strike in 1973, and reduced their total daily patient contacts from 65,000 to just 7,000. The strike lasted a month and during that time the death rate, according to the Jerusalem Burial Society, dropped by half.<br /><br />It doesn’t just happen in Israel. The 1960s saw physicians in Canada go on strike and the mortality rate dropped. In 1976, in Bogota, Colombia, doctors refused to treat all but emergency cases for a period of 52 days, and in that time the death rate fell by 35%.[4] In the same year the death rate dropped 18% during a ‘slow-down’ by doctors in Los Angeles. After the strike, deaths rates jumped to 3% above normal for more than five weeks as the Los Angeles doctors caught up on their paperwork.[5]<br /><br />And it is a standing joke among cardiologists that death rates fall during their conferences because fewer of them are attempting to cure moribund patients by doing dangerous surgery. Their treatment can be worse than the disease.<br /><br />It may come as no surprise, therefore, that a major report by Australian medical researchers posed the question ‘WILL MORE DOCTORS INCREASE OR DECREASE DEATH RATES?’ The report, written by scientists at the Centre for Health Program Evaluation, hypothesized that an increase in death rates in that country was caused by an increase in the number of doctors. Although the report was concerned only with the situation in Australia, there is strong evidence to suggest that this question also needs to be addressed in many other developed countries including Britain and the US.<br /><br />You may think that the question and hypothesis are outrageous. After all,<span style="font-style: italic;"> Primum non nocere</span>, ‘First, do no harm’, is a central tenet guiding medical practice, and most doctors treat this tenet very seriously. Yet the reality is that, with the state of healthcare as it is, our continual calls for more doctors, and expansion of the NHS and our dependence on it, may actually be increasing rather than decreasing illness in our lives. With the world’s highest concentration of doctors – one for every 500 people – you might expect that the US would be the healthiest country. Far from it; data from a health survey of the top thirteen wealthiest industrialized countries were published in the summer of 2000. The US came twelfth.[6]<br /><br />One reason why medical care may increase death rates is the large number of adverse events associated with it. The Australian report mentions a 1995 study of 14,000 hospital admissions. Of those admitted almost 17% suffered an adverse event. One in seven adverse events resulted in a permanent disability and one in 20 of the individuals affected died.[7]<br /><br />Even that may be an under-assessment. Research on under-reporting of serious adverse drug reactions in the United States and Canada suggests that formal reporting rates may be as low as 1.5% of the real total. US estimates place adverse drug reactions as the fifth most common cause of death after heart disease, cancer, stroke and pulmonary disease.[8] These figures are not always easy to acquire. It is well known that doctors and hospital consultants are notoriously bad at reporting drug side effects. Although there is a new national reporting system in the UK designed to flag potentially dangerous drugs and remedies, pharmacists said they tend not to report a side effect if patients have been harmed; they are more likely to report only those incidents where a protocol has been broken.[9] They fear that they will be blamed for any side effect, and so feel it is not worth running the risk. Why might they act in this way? It seems that they are ashamed to admit to their patients that they were wrong.[10]<br /><br />In modern society there is an increasing tendency, typified by the human rights movement, to shame governments, professions and individuals into complying with a particular organization’s ideas for social change. Shame is hard to deal with. It engenders embarrassment and guilt; it makes professionals feel flawed. It is, perhaps, no surprise that they fall back on silence. Shame is probably the major reason why most doctors don’t report adverse drug effects or change their views on the usefulness and harm of drugs.<br /><br />A second possibility, which the Australian researchers call ‘the dependency hypothesis’, is the idea that the more doctors are available, the more dependent on them people become to maintain their health. This leads patients to adopt an exaggerated confidence in the effectiveness of medical care and its ability to offset the harmful effects of their own self-neglect. But that is not a healthy attitude because getting involved with the medical profession can be decidedly dangerous. In 1999, doctors in the US were recognized as the third leading cause of death.[6] Four years later another review had elevated them into first place.[11] The number of Americans killed by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals is equivalent to dropping a nuclear bomb on a major US city every year.<br /><br />We in Britain are not immune to this trend. On 13 August 2004, an astonishing article appeared on the front page of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Times</span>. Based on an independent report published in the <span style="font-style: italic;">British Medical Journal</span>, it confirmed that medical accidents and errors were directly blamed for the deaths of 40,000 Britons per year. This made them officially Britain’s fourth-biggest killer. But the report went on to state that less than a third of an estimated 900,000 medical mistakes are properly reported each year. The figure also excluded errors committed in primary care such as in GPs’ surgeries.<br /><br />The following year came a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee Report, <span style="font-style: italic;">A Safer Place for Patients: Learning to Improve Patient Safety</span>. It stated that some 22% of medical mistakes that lead to a serious reaction or even death go unreported in the UK. This is because, while you may read ‘the patient died from complications of surgery’, the truth is often ‘the surgeon killed the patient’. Only one in four hospitals owns up to the patient (or relatives) when something goes wrong; the rest blame it on the disease itself; while just one in 25 drug reactions is ever reported. This massive under-reporting of mistakes is an acknowledged problem. It is usually because of fears of litigation.<br /><br />Government officials were shocked to hear that nobody knows how many of the reported blunders end in the death of the patient. But based on the known, reported accidents, one in 10 people admitted to a hospital in Britain every year will suffer an incident that will harm them, said Tory MP Edward Leigh, chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee. These included 974,000 medical ‘accidents’.[12] This is a conservative estimate; government officials accept the figure is more likely to be 1,190,000. We should then add 300,000 hospital-acquired infections, and 250,000 serious adverse reactions to a prescription drug, a figure which is again a very conservative estimate as it is based only on reported reactions – a truer figure may be closer to 1,200,000 every year, according to officials. This means that some 2,690,000 people, or 4.5% of the entire population, could be harmed by medical mishaps every year. ‘The numbers of blunders could have been halved if staff had learned from earlier errors,’ the report said. Edward Leigh added: ‘No public health system should tolerate a failure to learn from previous experience on this scale.’<br /><br />The lapses cost the NHS (actually, you and me, the taxpayers, of course) an estimated £2 billion in extra bed days and £540 million in litigation and compensation.<br /><br />All of this may be why the late Dr Robert Mendelsohn, a physician himself, wrote: <span style="font-weight: bold;">‘Doctors in general should be treated with about the same degree of trust as used car salesmen.</span>’[13]<br /><br />So, we in the UK must be grateful if the doctors carry out their threat to go on strike. Not only will the country save money by not paying their salaries while they aren't working, it will reduce the likelihood that they will kill or seriously hurt us.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A new medical threat proposed</span><br /><br />But there are now other threats to our welfare. We justifiably do not trust doctors, and as a consequence, people are loath to allow themselves to be experimented on. Which is proving to be a problem for the doctors. As is clearly stated in their paper, Drs Susanne Sheehy and Joel Meyer believe that we should be forced, by law if necessary, to allow them to inject us with any material they like. Mandatory participation in vaccine trials, they suggest, is no different from requiring individuals to serve on jury duty, for instance, or to serve in the military.<br /><br />They also believe that forcing people to take experimental vaccines, even when such vaccines come with obvious "inherent risks," is an individual's required duty to give back to society.<br /><br />Perhaps the most disturbing element of the paper, though, is its suggestion that "increas[ing] the severity" of diseases will help to facilitate 'compulsory recruitment' into experimental vaccine trials. Deliberately creating more deadly strains of disease in order to scare people into vaccine programs, in other words, is apparently considered to be a valid approach by Sheehy and Meyer, whose passionate worship of vaccines have led them to such a preposterous notion.<br /><br />Just how dangerous their ideas are is evidenced in what has happened in vaccine trials in the past. I'll just list a couple:<br /><ol><li>In 2008, 21 homeless individuals in Poland died during an avian flu vaccine experiment.[14] </li><li>And in the same year at least 14 Argentinean children died as part of an experimental vaccine trial conducted by British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline [15] </li></ol>With that track record it is no wonder that Drs Susanne Sheehy and Joel Meyer are having difficulty finding volunteers on which they can test dubious procedures. And have they forgotten that we have a perfectly adequate immune system – if only it is allowed to do its job. And vaccines damage that capability.<br /><br />Let me make it quite clear. I am very wary of going anywhere near the sharp end of a hospital.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> And there is certainly no way I would agree to allow myself to participate in any medical trial.</span><br /><br />The medical profession today all seem to think we 'patients' exist to provide them with a comfortable standard of life which we can never aspire to. Well, we don't! They are our servants; we pay their salaries. And there is a limit to how much we can afford. If they cannot live with that, so be it.<br /><br />So, let the doctors strike, I say. We will almost certainly be better off without their ministrations, and we will save money.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">References</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">1. Doctors threaten first strike in 40 years – over £48,000 pensions, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Independent</span>, Thursday 19 January 2012. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/doctors-threaten-first-strike-in-40-years--over-48000-pensions-6291595.html<br />2. Susanne Sheehy, BM BCh, MRCP, DTM&H, and Joel Meyer, BM BCh, MRCP. Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated? <span style="font-style: italic;">Virtual Mentor</span> 2012; 14: 35-38.<br />3. Doctors’ strike in Israel may be good for health. <span style="font-style: italic;">BMJ</span> 2000; 320:1561.<br />4. Horne, Ross. <span style="font-style: italic;">Health & Survival In The 21st Century</span>. HarperCollins Publishers Pty Limited, Australia, 1997. Chapter 11.<br />5. <span style="font-style: italic;">Science News</span>, 28 Oct 1978; 114: 293.<br />6. Starfield B. Is US health really the best in the world? <span style="font-style: italic;">JAMA</span> 2000; 284: 483-485.<br />7. Wilson RM, et al. The Quality in Australian Health Care Study. <span style="font-style: italic;">Med J Aus</span>t 1995; 163: 458-471.<br />8. Motl S, et al. Proposal to improve MedWatch: decentralized, regional surveillance of adverse drug reactions. <span style="font-style: italic;">Am J Health Syst Pharm</span> 2004; 61: 1840-1842.<br />9. Ashcroft DM, et al. Likelihood of reporting adverse events in community pharmacy: an experimental study. Qual Saf Health Care 2006; 15: 48-52.<br />10. Davidoff F. Shame: the elephant in the room. <span style="font-style: italic;">BMJ</span> 2002; 324: 623-624.<br />11. http://www.garynull.com/documents/iatrogenic/deathbymedicine/deathbymedicine1.htm<br />12. House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts. A safer place for patients: learning to improve patient safety; Fifty-first Report of Session 2005-06. 12 June 2006<br />13. Mendelsohn RA. <span style="font-style: italic;">Confessions of a Medical Heretic</span>. New York: McGraw-Hill Contemporary; 1979.<br />14. Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland. <span style="font-style: italic;">Daily Telegraph</span>, 02 Jul 2008. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html.<br />15. GSK fined after over vaccine trials; 14 babies reported dead. <span style="font-style: italic;">Buenos Aires Herald</span>. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/88922/gsk-lab-fined-$1m-over-tests-that-killed-14--babies<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
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None so far has found much, if any benefit from eating so much vegetation. This latest one is by far the biggest - but its findings are much in line with the earlier studies.<br /><br />Wouldn't it have been better if the diet dictocrats had thought to do a study <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">before</span> they told us all to eat so much!<br /><br />The abstract to the latest study is below.<br /><br />I have written a full article explaining<a href="http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/why-eat-5-portions-1.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> why it's NOT a good idea to eat 5-a-day.</span> </a><br /><br />* * * * * *<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paolo Boffetta, et al. Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) <span style="font-style: italic;">JNCI</span> 2010</span> [e-pub ahead of print]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ABSTRACT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Background:</span> It is widely believed that cancer can be prevented by high intake of fruits and vegetables. However, inconsistent results from many studies have not been able to conclusively establish an inverse association between fruit and vegetable intake and overall cancer risk.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Methods:</span> We conducted a prospective analysis of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort to assess relationships between intake of total fruits, total vegetables, and total fruits and vegetables combined and cancer risk during 1992–2000. Detailed information on the dietary habit and lifestyle variables of the cohort was obtained. Cancer incidence and mortality data were ascertained, and hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using multivariable Cox regression models. Analyses were also conducted for cancers associated with tobacco and alcohol after stratification for tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Results:</span> Of the initial 142 605 men and 335 873 women included in the study, 9604 men and 21 000 women were identified with cancer after a median follow-up of 8.7 years. The crude cancer incidence rates were 7.9 per 1000 person-years in men and 7.1 per 1000 person-years in women. Associations between reduced cancer risk and increased intake of total fruits and vegetables combined and total vegetables for the entire cohort were similar (200 g/d increased intake of fruits and vegetables combined, HR = 0.97, 95% CI = 0.96 to 0.99; 100 g/d increased intake of total vegetables, HR = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.97 to 0.99); intake of fruits showed a weaker inverse association (100 g/d increased intake of total fruits, HR = 0.99, 95% CI = 0.98 to 1.00). The reduced risk of cancer associated with high vegetable intake was restricted to women (HR = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.97 to 0.99). Stratification by alcohol intake suggested a stronger reduction in risk in heavy drinkers and was confined to cancers caused by smoking and alcohol.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusions: </span>A very small inverse association between intake of total fruits and vegetables and cancer risk was observed in this study. Given the small magnitude of the observed associations, caution should be applied in their interpretation.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTEXT AND CAVEATS</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prior knowledge</span><br /><br />The association between high intake of fruits and vegetables and reduction in overall cancer risk is not conclusively established.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Study design</span><br /><br />European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort study was conducted between 1992 and 2000. Diet and lifestyle data were self-reported by the participants. Cancer incidence and mortality data were obtained from country-specific national and regional registries. Association between overall cancer risk and high intake of total fruits, total vegetables, and total fruits and vegetables combined was assessed. Estimated cancer risks were adjusted for smoking, alcohol consumption, and many other variables.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contribution</span><br /><br />High intake of vegetables, and fruits and vegetables combined, was associated with a small reduction in overall cancer risk. The association was stronger in heavy alcohol drinkers but was restricted to cancers caused by smoking and drinking.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Implications</span><br /><br />This study reveals a very modest association between high intake of fruits and vegetables and reduced risk of cancer.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Limitations</span><br /><br />The inverse association between overall cancer risk and high intake of fruits and vegetables was weak. Errors inherent to self-reported dietary habits may have resulted in bias.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
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http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-4723827643092345372010-02-04T17:16:00.002+00:002010-02-04T17:40:28.284+00:00Millions of people 'waste their time by jogging'<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Supports Chapter Twelve: Exercise care</span><br /><br />When I wrote my first book, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Calorie Fallacy</span>, in 1993, I included a chapter about the lack of weight loss benefit from such exercises as jogging. Apart from my Fluoride book, all of my books since then have included a chapter about the lack of evidence that exercising has much significant benefit to health. Even though I like to think of myself as an athlete, I recognise the difference between being 'fit' and being 'healthy'. Many people seem to think of the two words are synonymous, but they aren't. You can be fit enough to run a marathon, but drop dead of a heart attack walking to the start. The classic example is Jim Fixx, who started the jogging craze with his book, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Complete Book of Running</span>, in 1977. He died of a heart attack while jogging!<br /><br />Now, according to a study reported in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Daily Telegraph</span>,<span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" > the secret is out: <span style="font-weight: bold;">"millions of people who strive to keep fit by jogging, swimming or going to the gym are wasting their time."</span> </span><span class="caption"></span> <span class="credit"></span> <div class="slideshow"><div style="display: block;" class="ssImg"> </div> </div> <p>The article says: Researchers have discovered that the health benefits of aerobic exercise are determined by our genes - and can vary substantially between individuals. </p> <p> Around 20 per cent of the population do not get any significant aerobic fitness benefit from regular exercise, according to an international study led by scientists at the University of London. </p><!-- BEFORE ACI --> <p> For these people, regular jogging and gym work will do little to ward off conditions like heart disease and diabetes which aerobic exercise is generally thought to resist. </p> <p> Researchers say they would be better off abandoning their exercise regime and focusing on other ways of staying healthy - such as improving their diet or taking medication.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7147952/Millions-of-people-waste-their-time-by-jogging.html">Read the rest of the story here</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
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http://www.second-opinions.co.uk</div>Barry Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248903531869557287noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880385657699231533.post-71262166839252013782010-02-04T16:24:00.003+00:002010-02-04T16:47:26.106+00:00EU Health Chief calls swine flu pandemic scare 'one of greatest medical scandals of century'<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Supports Chapter One: Trick to Treat</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">In the first chapter of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Trick and Treat</span>, I talked about how the </span>‘<span style="font-size:100%;">health industry</span>’<span style="font-size:100%;">, and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, invented scares and </span>‘<span style="font-size:100%;">diseases</span>’<span style="font-size:100%;"> so that they could capitalise on selling 'treatments' for those conditions.<br /><br />The latest scam,</span>‘<span style="font-size:100%;">The Swine Flu Pandemic</span>’<span style="font-size:100%;"> </span>scare, was one of the greatest medical scandals of the century, and was engineered to increase the profits of the drug companies, says the European Council's health chief, Dr Wolfgang Wodarg.<br /><br />The council is to begin an investigation into the role of the drug companies, and how they influence ‘independent’ authorities such as the World Health Organization, after they passed a resolution from Wodarg, chairman of the Council’s health committee. Dr Wodarg, who is an epidemiologist and former health director in Germany, has followed the swine flu (H1N1 virus) pandemic story unfold. “It is one of the greatest health scandals of the century,” he says. “We have had a mild flu – and a false pandemic.”<br /><br />The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a pandemic last year, and health authorities around the world ordered in huge stocks of vaccines. The UK's chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, predicted 65,000 deaths in the UK, and convinced the government to place a £1bn order for swine flu vaccine. In the event, a mere 251 people in the UK have died from the virus, and the government is now desperately trying to offload vast stocks of the redundant vaccine.<br /><br />Wodarg claims that governments have sealed contracts with drug companies that are triggered when a virus is classified as pandemic. “In this way the producers of vaccines are sure of enormous gains without having any financial risks. So they just wait until the WHO says ‘pandemic’ and activates the contracts.” As things stand with the contracts with the drugs companies, governments have no choice but to pay up.<br /><br />And what do we do with all the unwanted, useless, vaccines? We give them to third-world countries - who are very unlikely to have a need for them!<br />(Source: www.wodarg.de/english/3013320.html)<div class="blogger-post-footer">Barry Groves PhD
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