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• PCSK9 Gene – Reduces Cholesterol and Heart Disease Mortality

  High levels of cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol are associated with a higher risk of heart disease.

  Popular commentators frequently claim that cholesterol is irrelevant in causing heart disease and suggest that diets high in carbohydrate such as rice, potatoes, wheat (including whole-grain wheat), yams, millet and buckwheat are responsible.

  PCSK9 is a gene that reduces the life-time level of cholesterol. PCSK9 is an abbreviation for "proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 serine protease" gene which is why it is much more convenient to refer it as the PCSK9 gene.

  The authors' conclusion is the "data indicate that moderate lifelong reduction in the plasma level of LDL cholesterol is associated with a substantial reduction in the incidence of coronary events."

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  28 March 2024

• Diet and Cancer – Frederick Hoffman

  Frederic Ludwig Hoffman was an extraordinary statistician, publishing over 1300 items including 28 major works of 100 or more pages.

  Because of his leadership in cancer research, he was awarded the American Cancer Society’s Clement Cleveland Medal in 1943. He also was named a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of London, made a member of the German Society for Insurance Science, named an associate fellow of the American Medical Association, made an associate member of the American Academy of Medicine, and made an honorary member of the Essex County Anatomical and Pathological Society.

  He was a member of the American Economic Association, the American Academy of Social and Political Science in the City of New York, the National Institute of Social Sciences, the American Sociological Society, the Southern Sociological Congress, the National Conference on Charities and Corrections and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

  He was the seventh president of the American Statistical Association.

  Frederick Hoffman was the author of a 749 page book Cancer and Diet, written in 1937, demonstrating that:

  “That overnutrition is common in the case of cancer patients to a remarkable and exceptional degree, and that overabundant food consumption [of red meat] unquestionably is the underlying cause of the root condition of cancer in modern life.”

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  22 April 2023

• Additional Reading – Updated

  Below is a list of excellent books that examine the advantages (and disadvantages - there are not any) of eating a whole-food, plant-based diet.

  Read John Robbins’s incredible story about The Pig Farmer from Iowa that is moving and transforming.

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  15 September 2022

• The Traditional Diet of Inuit (or Eskimo) Peoples

  The traditional diet of the Inuit people was first examined comprehensively by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1906. He visited the Copper Inuits during a number of expeditions. Their diet was virtually plant-free, dominated by seal and caribou meat, supplemented by large salmon-like fish and occasional whale meat. However, Stefansson found that cooking was the nightly norm.

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  6 July 2022

• The Cause of Type 2 Diabetes

  The cause of type 2 diabetes has been known since at least the 1920s.

  In 1923, Dr. P.J. Cammidge wrote "that one of the commonest causes of a seeming progressive failure of carbohydrate tolerance was a conscious or unconscious increase in the fat of the diet."

  J.S. Sweeney wrote two papers in 1927 and 1928 that showed high-fat and high-protein diets increase insulin resistance.

  
  

  Sir Harold Himsworth (1905–93) was a renown medical doctor and researcher. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1939. He is best known for his work on diabetes although he had many other interests including the effects of radiation, tropical medicine and epidemiology.

  Himsworth presented a paper in 1935,

  "Showing the different diets eaten by different races, nations and social classes throughout the world and a close correlation has been demonstrated between dietary preference and the incidence of diabetes mellitus. [...] A high proportion of carbohydrate and low proportion of fat were found in all cases to be associated with low diabetic incidence, whilst a low proportion of carbohydrate and a high proportion of fat were associated with a high incidence."

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  9 September 2021

• Effect of Single High Fat Meal on Blood Flow

  MARS Center for Cocoa Health Science is based at University of California – Davis Campus (which is near Sacramento). Ronald Krauss, one of the authors of Astrup’s 2019 paper WHO draft guidelines on dietary saturated and trans fatty acids: time for a new approach?  is based at University of California – San Francisco campus.

  MARS has contributed $40 million to fund the institute.

  Between 2000 and 2021, the MARS institute has produced 157 articles extolling the benefits of chocolate and cocoa.

  “Everyone knows” that chocolate is really healthy and good for you based on research such as this.

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  24 March 2021

• Pop Psychology, Alice and the Concept of Evil

  Pop psychology has a habit of taking ideas from psychology and science and transforming them into half-truths – ideas that can be simplistic and misleading.

  Some examples include ego and intuition.

  With the help of Alice (from Alice Through the Looking Glass), we will also explore the concept of EVIL.

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  19 March 2021

• Seventh-day Adventists and Health

  A strong commitment to health has been a part of Seventh Adventist’s tradition since in founding in the 1840s.

  Within the Californian Seventh-day Adventist community, as the diet becomes more vegetarian, so do the health outcomes.

  Californian Seventh-day Adventists are much healthier than the average American.

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  31 December 2019

• Glucose Tolerance – Comparison of High-Fat and High-Carb Diets

  Way back in 1927, J. S. Sweeney assigned healthy, young medical students into four dietary groups: A high-carbohydrate diet; a high-fat diet; a high-protein diet; and a fasting diet.

  After only two days on their highly improbable diets, the students were given a glucose tolerance test.

  Which diet had the best result for the Glucose Tolerance Test?

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  30 December 2019

• A True Quest for Truth Denies Nothing

  A truly wise person is able to see the world exactly how it is – free from any filters or preferences, judgments or undue optimism or pessimism.

  Almost the truth simply does not work.

  A quest for truth is only valid is you are prepared to change your beliefs based on what you have found.

  A quest for truth is only useful if you are prepared to take action on what you have discovered.

  Deny nothing

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  10 November 2019