Coffee?

Why Are You Not Dead Yet?

Fun with Stimulants

Snort.

Interesting

Dante May Have Had Narcolepsy

Up Late

An Old Fave

Fun with Zombies

Behind the Scenes: Drunk History With Alie & Georgia

I love this show.  Freakin Brilliant.

Not how it sounds

No Link Between Autism and Celiac Disease

"The new study does find an association between positive celiac disease–related serology, with normal mucosa, in the absence of celiac disease, which includes antigliadin antibodies, and autism." Similar to the conclusions reached by a recent study published in PLoS One and reported by Medscape Medical News, the results of this study show a link between gluten sensitivity in a subset of patients with autism that is unrelated to celiac disease, said Dr. Alaedini.

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Expected Behavior

Link Between Antidepressants and Diabetes Risk Is Real

Depression is caused by excess insulin.  So... yeah.

Do One Thing

Do one thing every day that scares you....

Today I went over to the Narcolepsy Network forum and posted my submission to the FDA.
And while finding the right category to post in, I saw this post title:

"Pregnant While On Xyrem...reporting In"
by a narco named Zombie Princess

Damn I hate it over there.
Makes my head screech.

Eating for Two

How mom's immune system is linked to autism risk

Activating a mother's immune system during her pregnancy disrupts the development of neural cells in the brain of her offspring and damages the cells' ability to transmit signals and communicate with one another, researchers with the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Department of Neurology have found. They said the finding suggests how maternal viral infection might increase the risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder or schizophrenia.

Yes, well food allergies activate the immune system too...

Still Got It

I can still clean house for 48 straight hours.
Good thing...
heh.

Behold the Bias

Quitting Smoking Linked To Better Sleep At Night

That's what the medical media is reporting.

That is not at all what the study shows.
The study shows a correlation between smoking and bad sleep and nothing more.
And the authors document that with citations.

Behavioral variables may also contribute to poorer sleep among cigarette smokers. Since smokers often report using cigarette smoking as a form of stress relief (Fidler & West, 2009) and smokers self-report more daily stress than nonsmokers (Parrot, 1999), it is possible that this increase in stress may be the underlying cause of these sleep disturbances.

Second, persons who experience poor sleep may be more likely to smoke cigarettes. It is well known that poor sleep is associated with poor health-related quality of life (Lee et al., 2009) and symptoms of depression and anxiety (Mayers, Grabau, Campbell, & Baldwin, 2009; Paudel et al., 2008; Spira, Stone, Beaudreau, Ancoli-Israel, & Yaffe, 2009), all of which are associated with current cigarette smoking (McClave, Dube, Strine, & Mokdad, 2009; McClave et al., 2009). Poor sleepers may be more likely to smoke than those who sleep well because people who suffer from sleep difficulties experience a lower health-related quality of life and possibly even anxiety and depressive symptoms. 

Rule #1:   The pathology Always Always Always comes first.

Sleepy Girl

My little princess has figured out how to get on the good chairs.

Apparently they fit just right.

Oh Really

Man Brews Booze Inside His Own Gut

The 61-year-old could get stumbling drunk just by eating a bowl of pasta.

Fascinating, I'll have to research this more when I get a minute.

BEZOTD

Probably will be light blogging the next couple weeks.   I am slammed.

Sugar Dubbed Dangerous, Addictive Drug

Paul van der Velpen, the head of Amsterdam’s health service, says sugar is an addictive drug that should be “tightly regulated.”

Seriously dude, you're not helping.  Tightly regulating addictive substances has been proven over and over not to work.

Infection and allergies alter sugar metabolism.   Sick people self medicate.
You're missing a step, Mr. Righteous Dutch Disciplinarian...

The First Basic Principle

Some people are more susceptible to illnesses in general.
Some people are more susceptible to specific illnesses.


Cold Sore Linked to Mutation in Gene 

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that people affected by cold sores have a mutation in a gene, which means their immune system is not able to prevent them from developing.

So, I'm guessing those people are probably more at risk of the long term effects too...
Just guessing.  

Call Him Sherlock

Denis M. McCarthy
Sober Drinking Knowledge Fails 'in the Moment' of Intoxication

Seriously.
Your "Alcoholism Experts" at work.

My Peeps

I see you everywhere.    Struggling with your brains.

Photographer is a self-righteous misery-exploiting vampire who makes a lot of trite assumptions, but I like the pics anyway.
 

Or Maybe Not

Having Cavities Might Prevent Some Cancers

They credit this to a rise in lactic acid in the mouth. Maybe.
My research indicates that strep species compete for niches and suppress eachother's proliferation. Maybe Strep mutans suppresses Strep anginosus.... which is documented to cause head and neck cancer.

Something like this.

The Twist in the Mobius Strip

Smarter Kids Are Smart Enough to Avoid Alcohol and Drugs, Right?

Behold the power of dopamine.
Makes memory better.   And anxiety worse. 

Not Really Off-Topic

I am really beginning to like manic boy Russell Brand.    Quite a way with words.   And wisdom.   For a hyper freak...

Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' 

The comedian on his evening at the GQ awards, from which he was ejected after cracking a joke about sponsor Hugo Boss.

See the Matrix.  Speak the Truth.

Pay No Attention to the Man behind the Curtain

I'm very glad this guy wrote this article.   I didn't want to.    

Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

Why are we so sure that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?

Because there a breakfast industry, that's why.   Funding something called Breakfast Science.

The same effect has been studied in Asia and in Europe, in children and in grown-ups, and the answer always seems to be the same: The more regularly you eat breakfast, the slimmer you’ll be.   The mere fact of this association doesn’t tell us very much about what breakfast really does, of course, and it’s possible that the case for eggs and toast has been overblown. A study published last week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition starts with this simple fact—that in spite of all these association studies, no one knows exactly what skipping breakfast might be doing to our bodies. The study goes on to make a disturbing claim: Scholars in this field of inquiry—breakfast science—have been fudging facts and misinterpreting the science. The literature shows signs of research bias.

I'm shocked, just shocked.

Does skipping breakfast make them fat, or do people who are getting fat choose to skip breakfast?

Hmmm.   I wonder.  Do you think fat people are stupid or not?

The Root of the Problem

Twelve years after 9/11, we still have no idea how to fight terrorism.

The Afghanistan war has cost $657.5 billion so far, we spend $17.2 billion in classified funds a year fighting terrorism through the intelligence community, and the Department of Homeland Security spent another $47.4 billion last year. And we have very little idea whether any of it is preventing terrorist attacks.
 ...
The studies find that, on average, adding metal detectors and security screenings at airports leads to about 6.3 fewer airplane hijackings in the years examined. But they also find that those policies lead to significant increases in “miscellaneous bombings, armed attacks, hostage taking, and events which included death or wounded individuals (as opposed to non-casualty incidents) in both the short and long run.” In fact, metal detectors and security screenings at airports lead to about 6.9 more of these substitute events. “When calculating the overall weighted mean effect size for all of the findings examining the effectiveness of metal detectors, the positive and harmful effects cancel each other out,” the review’s authors conclude.

 650 billion dollars would buy every person in Afghanistan a lifetime of Dental Care.

Bwa Ha Ha Ha

Depression may be worse when accompanied by anger, irritability

Isn't that self evident?   Stressing out makes everything worse.  What the hell.

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The Mind Boggles

Rice Diet center shuts its doors after 70 years

Dieters once flocked to the residential weight-loss facility in Durham, N.C. to drop pounds by following a white rice-and-fruit regimen. It has since closed following failed attempts to restart the program.

The Circle of Insanity

Get Jamba Juice for $1 to Fight Childhood Obesity