Coconut Oil helps against Alzheimer's (Health)

[steven]

Another thing that the pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know about...

http://www.anh-usa.org/coconut-oil-and-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jp7BhDFrU

[Brian Ambrose]

Of course coconut oil has been demonised for a long time. It contains fat. And fat, as everyone knows, not only makes you fat but fills up all the handy space in your arteries. Notwithstanding the undeniable truth of this popular wisdom, I can report that we use coconut oil for cooking (it is ideal for the job) and make a point of buying full fat everything just to be contrary. We can report that we are no fatter than the next man. As to coconut oil's medicinal qualities, it has many.

[Mick Harper]

The Ambrose famille, many of whom are perfectly normal, testifies once more to the efficacy of the Atkins Diet. The human body, after all, spent most of its evolutionary lifetime living on fat. It would be interesting to find out whether coconut oil specifically counteracts carbohydrates.

[ingridcarley]

Is it true. Does it help dementia patients too.

[Mick Harper]

Greetings Mr Ingridcarley. It was featured on the telly this week and the bloke in the white coat seemed to indicate it was different in kind to other cooking fats. I always assume dementia is down to mercury poisoning (mainly from teeth fillings) but maybe it was all that lard'n'marge (made mostly from whales) that dementia patients used to consume in their youth. I know I did.

[Boreades]

[Pete Jones]

Re: Atkins, meat, eggs, full fat, cholesterol, etc ... This is truly the test of one's commitment to the task of clear thinking. It's the one bit of wrongthink that requires that you bet your life on it. As a decade long Atkins/keto bacon eater, I've made the bet also.

Confuses me when my family doctor tells me he will "never recommend that I stop a keto diet," but then takes my cholesterol measurement and tries to prescribe a statin

[Boreades]

Re statins

[Mick Harper]

Re both the Atkins and the Boreades diet.

They both fall foul of the dreaded 'balanced diet' promulgation. This phrase so appeals to human beings they are all entranced by it despite no organism yet appearing in the four thousand million year history of this our earth obeying it, including Homo Sapiens (sapiens) before agriculture was invented.

[Mick Harper]

Some fascinating news for anti-vaxxers is emerging from an obscure Welsh health campaign conducted back in 2013.

Chicken pox is a not very serious childhood affliction--I remember I had it. Mum treated it with calamine lotion, a few days in bed and stern injunctions not to pick the scabs, Mick. Blimey, it was like Grunwick all over again thirty years before Grunwick.

The disease occurs in a more virulent form as 'shingles' in later life, but still not that serious. Nevertheless an anti-shingles (and chicken pox) vaccine was developed and offered to Welsh NHS patients. But in an odd kind of way. Those born before a given date were not offered it at all, those born after it were, of whom roughly 50% had the vaccine.

This accidentally created a perfect blind trial of identical populations not selected other than randomly and virtually of the same age (say, a year before vs the year after). The vaccine was successful in its main aim of reducing the incidence of shingles (and chicken pox) but

[Mick Harper]

A few years ago I started having all sorts of problems with my feet. I had them looked at by a medical professional (A Doctor) and got a 'there's a lot of it about' type response. So I DIYed the problem by varying my footwear

* sometimes sock and shoes
* sometime socks and slippers
* sometimes shoes/slippers but not socks
* sometimes just socks
* sometimes bare feet.

Nothing seemed to make any difference but yesterday I discovered (on CNN, so it must be true) that there is a small but measurable correlation between bare feet and not-getting-dementia. The theory being that the longest nerve in the human body runs from the soles of the feet to the brain and that therefore impulses from one to the other give maximal jolts clearing the brain of 'thingies'.

So bare feet it is. Who cares about them?

[Mick Harper]

Though having said that, yesterday I forgot the name of somebody one could never forget and I thought I must mention that on the AEL. But I have forgotten who it was.

[Brian Ambrose]

Some say walking with bare feet on grass (for example) is good - it’s all about adding electrons (or maybe having less electrons.)