A Similar theme from George Monbiot at the guardian
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich
No evidence that High cholesterol causes Cardiovascular Disease
1. Dietary Cholesterol and the Lack of Evidence in Cardiovascular Disease
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6024687/
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. For years, dietary cholesterol was implicated in increasing blood cholesterol levels leading to the elevated risk of CVD. To date, extensive research did not show evidence to support a role of dietary cholesterol in the development of CVD.
2, Doubt cast on wisdom of targeting ‘bad’ cholesterol to curb heart disease risk
Decades of research have failed to show consistent benefit for this approach, say researchers
Setting targets for ‘bad’ (LDL) cholesterol levels to ward off heart disease and death in those at risk might seem intuitive, but decades of research have failed to show any consistent benefit for this approach, reveals an analysis of the available data, published online in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
The cholesterol panic is great for big pharma and the millions they make prescibing Statins.
For 20 + years I have lived on a high fat diet with 70% of my calories from fats.
The non-sequiter conclusion you make will hopefully make others dismiss your post, as they should. You have normal cholesterol, the atherogenic hypothesis applies to those with high ldl, or more precisely high apo b. The bmj editorial you link hints that ldl alone may not be a good reason to prescribe statins, but the alternative is not to ignore cholesterol but to consider other factors like CAC. You also seem to not grasp the limited value of anecdotal information, and don’t say how much of your diet is saturated fat. A high fat diet from olive oil is different than a high fat diet from butter.
just goes to show the sort of shit research going on over the years.
cures depression in 7 days. of course it does!
just like those people who are suffer grief/bereavement from a family members death, but find themsleves prescribed anti-depressants and 20 years later and are still taking them.
Add some CBT to that and we can cure the entire world of all mental illness in 24 hours.
Incredibly, after 20 years, they have not released a new anti-depressant containing magnesium
Though to be fair, fast forward 18 years and research in 2024 suggested that taking magnesium supplements with an antidepressant may help with the symptoms of depression.
I take magnesium for restless leg syndrome, just a tiny pinch in my nightly hot cacao chocolate.
Grief and depression are distinctly different things.
There's obviously been many missteps on the road to "curing" depression but I think we're moving forward and it's nice to have options.
I went on anti-depressants after my brother died and they helped a lot, and I was able to stop them when no longer needed. In my decades of having medical care, I've never had a doctor push any medications on to me other than strongly recommend in certain conditions (statins, as the accumulated evidence indicates it's worth a go).
Ketamine has been very helpful as well but that is unfortunately unnecessarily spendy. I've don't plenty of recreational chemical adventures and I fail to see the appeal of it in that regard.
>just goes to show the sort of shit research going on over the years.
Psychiatry borders pseudo-science afterall. And there's the more general replication crisis (with psychology at the focus) fuelled by the fact that positive results are more publishable and that publishing negative replications is hard (those affecting entirety of science).
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich
Especially relevant when the vast majority of UK politicians, left, right and centre. have shares in big USA tech companies.REGISTER OF LORDS’ INTERESTS.
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