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Fried Chicken And Dementia. Will The Nonsense Ever End?
American Council on Science and Health ^ | 12/06/21 | David Lightsey, MS

Posted on 12/08/2021 7:32:06 AM PST by Pining_4_TX

he CNBC headline. “A Harvard nutritionist and brain expert says she avoids these five foods that ‘weaken memory and focus.” She is also the author of “This Is Your Brain on Food,” an Amazon #1 bestseller in obsessive-compulsive disorders. I haven’t read the book, but it would be pointless based on her article, which appeared on many other news outlets.

I am well aware of the extensive junk science in the field of nutrition, and her article is just another reflection of it.

It is the standard attempt:

to extrapolating rodent’s studies to humans; to equate correlations as a cause-and-effect relationship; unwarranted chemophobia; cherry-picking the variable you would like to demonize.

(Excerpt) Read more at acsh.org ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: dementia; nutrition; scaremongering
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1 posted on 12/08/2021 7:32:06 AM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

Everything in moderation........................


2 posted on 12/08/2021 7:33:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Pining_4_TX

FRIED CHICKEN INTELLIGENCE BOOSTING FOOD ~!


3 posted on 12/08/2021 7:37:04 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Pining_4_TX

I’m really done with all these detractors-of-what-you-eat scare mongers trying to make money off it. I don’t care about their qualifications, history, education, provenance or whatever. It’s all about the Benjamins to them and they don’t care a whit about the reality of it as long as they can make book.

Milk: good, then bad, then 2%, then skim, then back to whole and repeat.

Eggs: good, then bad, then whites/no yolk, then Eggbeaters then what?

Meat: Red no good, white good. Pork, chicken, fish then contaminants [ooga boogs].......Oh! and don’t forget the veggies! Vegans and Vegetarian “I don’t eat anything that had a face” waifs who look like death warmed over..


4 posted on 12/08/2021 7:41:34 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Candor7

Argghh, that looks tasty!


5 posted on 12/08/2021 7:43:08 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H.L. Mencken)
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To: Pining_4_TX

All based on the Vegan agenda push.


6 posted on 12/08/2021 7:45:20 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Pining_4_TX

People who eat a diet high in fatty fried foods have a greater chance of getting alzheimers. This has been known for quite some time. Also people who smoke get is more than non smokers.

As mentioned above moderation.


7 posted on 12/08/2021 7:46:57 AM PST by setter
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To: setter

The number one risk factor for dementia, as well as most other diseases is aging. As we age, everything deteriorates in our bodies and minds.


8 posted on 12/08/2021 7:48:36 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H.L. Mencken)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Just because something is published does not mean we need to pay attention to it.

Academia is long been “Publish or perish”. Peer review means little when these publications are on the web and so many have inherit biases about what gets passed.

Media SEEKS OUT ‘scare headlines’ as click-bait. They are filling a bottomless pit in the 24/7/365 news cycle. Their priorities are not to help you but to ‘excite’ you!

Human psychology is much the same as it has been for CENTURIES but it is the ENVIRONMENT that has changed! In a SINGLE Lifetime (~75 years), we have gone from a radio/newspaper/magazine information pipeline to this wide-open firehose today. We NEED to practice information discrimination (the good kind) to keep from going crazy.


9 posted on 12/08/2021 7:51:22 AM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

How old was the Colonel when he died?


10 posted on 12/08/2021 7:51:29 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (. Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

“The number one risk factor for dementia, as well as most other diseases is aging”

How do you explain dementia showing up in significant amounts today in people in their late 40’s and 50’s? It’s people diet today which tends to be fatty and processed foods.


11 posted on 12/08/2021 7:54:09 AM PST by setter
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To: Gaffer
My diet consists of all three....WHOLE milk, eggs & red meat. Also eat lotsa vegies, no soda and no snacks (chips & sh**). I'm 77, 114 lbs, 5'3" BP 120/65...and I get up from my computer when ever I get a fresh cup of coffee and walk around the rooms accumulating one mile every day.

If the weather is nice...I go to the store and walk around some more.

It's not JUST about eating.

12 posted on 12/08/2021 7:55:36 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Pining_4_TX

Anyone have the picture of Congressman Steve Cohen and his KFC bucket?


13 posted on 12/08/2021 7:55:53 AM PST by I-ambush (If we make it we’ll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying )
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To: Pining_4_TX

“Harvard nutritionist”

In other words, an oxymoron, with the emphasis on moron.


14 posted on 12/08/2021 7:56:49 AM PST by Jay W
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To: Openurmind

These are the same people pushing the vax to save your life.


15 posted on 12/08/2021 7:57:08 AM PST by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

KFC,
If I had a Nickle for
Every Bucket!


16 posted on 12/08/2021 7:57:28 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

90

Seems like a pretty good run for a dude.

People don’t get it that the normal human lifespan is about 80 years. Anything after that is gravy (as the Colonel might say), and those years might be pretty good, but probably not. If you look at charts dating from 1900, you see that more deaths occurred at younger ages than now, but there is a steep increase in the death rate starting in the 80+ age groups whether it’s 1900 or 2020. Nobody lives forever no matter what they eat or how they live.


17 posted on 12/08/2021 7:57:32 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H.L. Mencken)
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To: setter

True, and of course there’s fried chicken...


18 posted on 12/08/2021 7:59:21 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I believe that if you make it to at least 70 (I’m 72) you don’t need to be reading all this new nonsense and drastically change your regimen.


19 posted on 12/08/2021 8:00:15 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: setter

I’m not sure what you mean by significant amounts, but perhaps some of that could be due to drug use or better diagnosis. In the past, such cases might not have been attributed to a diagnosis of dementia. It’s sad, but some families have an inherited form of dementia that shows up at an early age. There was a story recently about a family where 4 out of the 5 or 6 siblings had developed early onset dementia.

We like to think we have more control over our health and aging than we actually do. Nobody can even agree on what eating right is.


20 posted on 12/08/2021 8:00:32 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H.L. Mencken)
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