Granted this is somewhat narrower than my title suggests, but it should make you think twice about eating sucralose (Splenda).
Diabetes Care | Mobile
OBJECTIVE Nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS), such as sucralose, have been reported to have metabolic effects in animal models. However, the relevance of these findings to human subjects is not clear. We evaluated the acute effects of sucralose ingestion on the metabolic response to an oral glucose load in obese subjects.
We all know first hand that mental anguish exists and that at least a hug or an hour of someone listening to you offers relief. Beyond that, knowledge in the field is clouded by entrenched interest groups each preaching the solutions they find most profitable. Rigorously applying the scientific method is the only way forward.
Medicine’s big new battleground: does mental illness really exist? | Society | The Observer
The latest edition of DSM, the influential American dictionary of psychiatry, says that shyness in children, depression after bereavement, even internet addiction can be classified as mental disorders. It has provoked a professional backlash, with some questioning the alleged role of vested interests in diagnosis.
The hyperbole of the reporting sets off my skepticism alarms.
Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients
Up to 40% of patients with chronic back pain could be cured with a course of antibiotics rather than surgery, in a medical breakthrough that one spinal surgeon says is worthy of a Nobel prize.
Interesting hack.
Resistant Starch: 4-Letter Word? Nope. Goal: Create Mashed Potatoes A Diabetic Can Eat Every Day | Free The Animal
Here’s the reference: Prepare for the “Resistant Starch” Assimilation; Resistance is Futile. It started off slow, rather as I’d expected, because: STARCH! (Fingers raised across face in the sign of a cross.) But, comments began picking up and even though the post is quite a ways down in the scroll, it’s what’s getting the most play currently. And…
This rings true.
Thinking hard and its effect on appetite
This looks like an interesting study:
Thinking hard makes you hungry…..so you eat more. Yet thinking hard doesn’t burn calories. So if you are going to think hard then eat, well you better do something to burn the calories that you are going to add.
