tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post4893848594043602473..comments2023-10-01T04:36:19.806-07:00Comments on medicine: facts and fictions: Diet, Health, and LongevityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post-37067201111579302722012-12-13T12:10:31.395-08:002012-12-13T12:10:31.395-08:00I just recalled a five-year diet intervention stud...I just recalled a five-year diet intervention study done on American females to see if a low fat diet (defined as limiting total fat calories to 10-15% of the total) decreased the incidence of breast and/or colon cancer; it didn't.george thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810516710667919032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post-23449921549395475392012-10-11T16:55:30.729-07:002012-10-11T16:55:30.729-07:00Just as an example of recent diet studies: (1) onl...Just as an example of recent diet studies: (1) online in the New England Journal of Medicine on October 10,2012, is an article demonstrating a correlation between the per capita consumption of chocolate in a country and its number of Nobel laureates, (2) in a study in Utica, New York, taxing soft drinks led to and increase in purchases of beer, and (3) when schools ban chocolate milk, total milk consumption decreases sharply with a concomitant increase of other sweetened foods.george thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810516710667919032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post-65019399222813948632012-10-11T09:21:20.676-07:002012-10-11T09:21:20.676-07:00I forgot to mention the glycemic index. This is th...I forgot to mention the glycemic index. This is the propensity of a food to antagonize the action of insulin and thereby raise your blood sugar. Needless to say, diabetics, patients with the metabolic syndrome, and people trying to lose weight should minimize their intake of such foods. The ordinary food that has the highest glycemic index is the white potato (yellow is ok). Next comes bread, followed by pasta. The food with the lowest glycemic index is rice. It is so low that before insulin was discovered it was possible to keep some diabetic patients out of ketoacidosis by placing them on an all-rice diet. Perhaps their rice diet contributes to the longevity of the Japanese.george thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810516710667919032noreply@blogger.com