Two more cases of hype in glamour journals: magnets, cocoa and memory
This study was promoted by the Northwestern University "Electric current to brain boosts memory". And Science tweeted along the same lines.
Science‘s link did not lead to the paper, but rather to a puff piece, "Rebooting memory with magnets". Again all the emphasis was on memory, with the usual entirely speculative stuff about helping Alzheimer’s disease. But the paper itself was behind Science‘s paywall. You couldn’t read it unless your employer subscribed to Science.
All the publicity led to much retweeting and a big altmetrics score. Given that the paper was...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia altmetrics Alzheimer's Bad journalism badscience false discovery rate public engagement Public relations Public understanding publishing randomisation randomization RCT science communication cocoa false positives h Source Type: blogs
Cocoa Flavanols Improve Speed of Memory Tasks in Older Adults
A new study finds that naturally occurring bioactive molecules in cocoa can improve the speed of memory tasks in healthy older adults.
Read the rest of the story... » (Source: Highlight HEALTH)
Source: Highlight HEALTH - October 30, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen Source Type: blogs
Blood test results 2014
After over a year with no tests, I decided to subject myself to the needle again and have my blood analyzed.
The good news: no change
The tests show no signs of kidney function degradation. Serum creatinine is 2.0mg/dL, exactly what it was when I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease over five years ago. All other parameters are pretty consistent with the results obtained over the last five years and are within, or close to, the normal healthy range.
This either means that:a) My hard work watching my diet and trying to live a healthy life is paying off and protecting my kidneys from further damage, or,b) None of my lif...
Source: All Kidney News - September 3, 2014 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Africa’s Best No Lye Relaxer – Look at the label
Africa’s Best Dual Conditioning No-Lye Relaxer System is a top seller on Amazon.com. Is its “No Lye” claim truthful? Let’s look at the label to find out.
I worked with the chemist who developed Motions and other world class relaxers. If you want to support the Beauty Brains please use our link below to shop for No-lye Relaxer or ANY product that you want from Amazon. Perry & I really appreciate your support!
Is Africa’s Best Relaxer really no lye?
Lye, in case you didn’t know, is another name for sodium hydroxide which is the most effective ingredient used in modern relaxers. Unfort...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Claims Source Type: blogs
Cocoa workers tasting chocolate for the first time
The farmers who harvest cocoa beans for a few cents in the Ivory Coast never tasted chocolate. Watch their faces when they eat it for the first time.
For us westerners chocolate is just one more thing. It’s inconsequential. We like to eat it, sometimes we get delighted by it for a minute. But more often than not it’s just one more snack to stuff our fat faces with. We don’t think about it and the incredible effort and resources that are required to make it. We take it for granted along with the other billion foods and the other billion other technologies and privileges we didn’t fight for.
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Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - August 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Walter van den Broek Tags: Chocolate Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Holiday Recipes 2
Now for the desserts!
Here are recipes for Pumpkin Pie, Apple Cranberry Crumble, and Pumpkin Spice Muffins.
Remember: By taking out wheat and other grains, not resorting to gluten-free junk carbohydrate replacements, not adding sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, limiting net carbohydrate content and not using other problem ingredients, we now have healthy desserts that do not pack on the pounds, screw with blood sugar, mess with satiety signals, or exert inflammatory effects.
Have your Apple Cranberry Crumble or Pumpkin Spice Muffin and suffer not a moment of guilt! And I think they’re pretty darned tasty, too.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 30, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
One Reason Why Cocoa Is Good For You
We've heard about a jillion times that dark chocolate is good for you, but new research being unveiled this week at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society may help shed light on the reason why.
A research team spearheaded by Maria Moore, an undergraduate student at Louisiana State University, created a model of the human digestive process using stomach and intestinal enzymes, and sent through three types of cocoa powder (an ingredient in chocolate), paying careful attention to the way the components of cocoa powder were broken down by gut bacteria. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutr...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - March 18, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Health dark chocolate diet tips food news food tips health news study superfood Source Type: blogs
Feeling Excellent: Advice And Essential Nutrition Tips
Realizing the proper ingredients to supply your system is what’s for assisting to manage your fat simply essential. Be sure to consider your health by following together with Alexander Simring report. You will understand how to eat a nutritious, wellbalanced diet, after reading Simring. Riboflavin is really a crucial vitamin in just about any excellent diet. Our body has to excrete electricity obtained from sugars fat protein, and stored in the body. Additionally you want it for iron transport and metabolism. Dairy and whole-grain products contain a sufficient nutritional quantity of riboflavin. To eat better without...
Source: aids-write.org - March 15, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: nutrition tips Source Type: blogs
OK, I'll Shut Up Now: Final Pics and Thoughts on Natural Products Expo West
By Crabby McSlackerRegular readers are probably now vicariously nauseated and exhausted from our many virtual hours wandering through the convention halls together, eating everything in sight. I "dead blogged" Natural Products Expo West on Monday and nattered on again with the Expo West musings on Wednesday and here we are again with more of the same on Friday. Sheesh!The sad thing? Still dozens of more pictures and thoughts, but enough is enough I'm thinking. Natural Products Expo West is a really humongous undertaking and a fun time. I hope to bore you with it again next year... if any of you are ...
Source: Cranky Fitness - March 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: J Graham Source Type: blogs
Natural Products Expo West 2014: Dead-Blogged by Crabby!
By Crabby McSlackerSo, you know how reporters and bloggers go to an exciting event like the Natural Products Expo West and they "live-blog" it? Readers can virtually experience the happenings themselves as they see pictures and impressions scroll by in Real Time.Well, sorry, but "live-blogging" is SO not Crabby McSlacker! That would require flexibility, multi-tasking, and a focus on something other than "where is the next free snack and how many samples can I take home with me?"A Huge Crapload of Samples, Yay!However, since the expo is now over and it's too late to "live blog" it, how about I Dead-Blog it inste...
Source: Cranky Fitness - March 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Heel Tastic Intensive Heel Therapy – Look at the label
Heel Tastic Intensive Heel Therapy is a beauty best seller on Amazon. Let’s look at the label.
Heel Tastic is a wax-based moisturizer sold in a no-mess stick form. The product claims are fairly pedestrian:
Heel Tastic Claims
This balm repairs rough, dry skin quickly and easily.
It blends a unique combination of imported Indian neem and karanja oils, that have been prized for centuries for their restorative properties.
Its fragrant, easy-to-use formula is absorbed deep below the skin’s surface to aid the body’s natural healing process, turning even tough, cracked skin, baby-smooth and soft after only a...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 1, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: The Beauty Brains Tags: Claims Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
I’d Like To Teach the World To Stim — in Perfect Harmony
The other day I had an email from an NYU sophomore asking if she could interview me for her Oral History class project. She wanted to know about mothering a child with autism. I told her that I’d love to, but that my son was now 24. She said that would be great anyway. She was down in New York, however, so we were not sure at that time how to proceed.
Then yesterday I was contacted by her project partner, Chris, who happened to be in Boston visiting a friend. Chris and I agreed to meet at my favorite coffee shop in town, Peet’s. Nat was home for the weekend, so I asked him to come with me; the interview was par...
Source: Susan's Blog - February 16, 2014 Category: Autism Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
You may have freedom of speech, but I’d STFU for now if I were you…
Here's what I know. You can say whatever the hell you want. You have the right to say all this bullshit without risk of prosecution by the US government. You won't go to prison. You won't be killed. Your family will not be hunted down. On the obverse, I have the right to disagree with you, despise you, hate you, and even publically ridicule you in any manner I see fit for the bullshit you have said in a public forum. This response can be compounded and accentuated by the fact that you are a public figure.
I had the following conversation on Twitter with one of Hannity's disciples -- a really crazy, coo-coo for Cocoa Puf...
Source: The Angriest Pharmacist - December 24, 2013 Category: Pharmacists and Pharmacologists Authors: TheAngriestPharmacist Tags: Because Fuck You - That's why! Me being a dick Me hating others Politics Bullshit Debate Democrat Republican Tired of this stupid shit Tweet Source Type: blogs
20 Ways to Discuss Advance Care Planning With Your Family Over The Holiday
We present a variety of ways to get to the topic: some humorous and edgy, some will work for you, others clearly won't, but we wanted to provide a range of scenarios!“Do you think this delicious turkey had a living will?”“All I want for Christmas is for you to tell me your thoughts on artificial life support and your ideas regarding an acceptable quality of life. Fa-la-la-la-la---la-la-la-la.”“Whoever assigned their Health Care Power of Attorney this year gets pumpkin AND apple pie for dessert!”“The holidays can be so depressing sometimes.”“You want to know what increases the risk of depression? Not knowi...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 27, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Christian Sinclair Source Type: blogs
