Common Dietary Supplements Have Little to No Effect on Mortality
Yet another sizable study has shown that common dietary supplements have little to no effect on late life mortality. This finding of course has to compete with the wall to wall marketing deployed by the supplement market. Researchers have been presenting data on the ineffectiveness of near all supplements of years, but it doesn't seem to reduce the enthusiasm for these products. In the past it was fairly easy to dismiss all supplements as nonsense, or at the very least causing only marginal effects that were in no way comparable to the benefits of exercise and calorie restriction, but matters are now becoming more complex....
Source: Fight Aging! - July 19, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Eat crackers!
Here is the rest of Exodus 12. I understand and respect that this is among the most sacred texts of the Jews, and that it underlies the most important ritual tradition of the religion. It is unusual because it happens at home, and does not involve a priest. It is very important to people ' s identities, and their sense of family and belonging. Nevertheless I ' m going to look at with directly and evaluate it without bias, including any pre-supposition of sacrality or allegorical interpretation. I presume most devout Jews believe that this is all literally true and that these events really happened, as do fundamentalist Chr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 7, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s “Cakewalk” Fantasy about an Iran War
Although President Trump apparently called off a planned airstrike on Iran at the last minute in late June, he subsequently warned Iranian leaders that the military option was still very much on the table. He emphasized that if the United States used force against Iran, Washington would not put boots on the ground but would wage the conflict entirely with America ’s vast air power. Trump exhibited no doubt about the outcome, asserting that such a war “wouldn ’t last very long, ” and that it would mean the “obliteration” of Iran.His boast was eerily reminiscent of the statement that Kenneth Adelman, a former ass...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Digesting the latest research on eggs
Eggs are back in the news — again. A study from the March 2019 JAMA found that higher intakes of cholesterol and eggs were associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death.
The researchers reported that ingesting an additional 300 milligrams of cholesterol per day raised this risk, as did eating an average of three to four eggs per week.
Should we finally resign ourselves to taking our toast without a sunny-side-up yolk? Not so fast.
What did the study find?
Human diets are complex and notoriously hard to study. This is one reason why health headlines are often maddeningly contradictory.
For the J...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Gelsomin, MLA, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Days of Future Past
Exodus 12 is very long, so we ' ll just take part of it today. It ' s a mashup of describing what is about to happen and what the Hebrews should do in the next two weeks; and what they will be required to do every year in the future to commemorate it. Note that God gives time for a lengthy buildup to the 10th plague and the exodus, apparently so that future commemorations can also be of substantial duration. TheLord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man i...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 30, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
