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2008-12-02 Science & Technology

Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer's

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Couldn't the intake of ANYTHING, combined with the right 'genetic factors' adversely affect several brain substances? I'm sure Nitrogen will give you Alzheimer's if you have enough genetic disposition to it. This is just another attempt to modify peoples behavior to suit you own values. I don't think academics have any more credibility than journalists do any more.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-02 07:20|| 2008-12-02 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 On the other hand, these researcher's did mention that vast quantities of lutefisk were conducive to a long life, healthy skin and fresh breath. I suspect some bias.

Posted by ed 2008-12-02 07:30|| 2008-12-02 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll call hooey as well. For example, as a rule of thumb, Alzheimer's and Schizophrenia are mutually exclusive.

Those with less education are as a group more likely to develop Alzheimer's, as well.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-12-02 09:17|| 2008-12-02 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Most people do not have a diet of exclusively cheeseburgers, french fries and Coke. Even those who eat only at McDonalds have the option of a salad, orange juice, and a carton of milk on occasion. This feels like the tests that were used to show that cyclamates are dangerous while saccharine is safe, which infuriated my research biochemist father. Interestingly, as I understand it, Canada took the same research to support banning saccharine and promoting cyclamates.

It would be interesting to see a proper study following three identical groups of mice for at least a year: one group eating exclusively junk food, the second part junk food and part normal mouse kibble, and the third exclusively mouse kibble.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-12-02 12:55|| 2008-12-02 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Why didn't PETA protest the cruelty of forcing genetically altered mice to eat happy meals?

Posted by mhw 2008-12-02 13:40|| 2008-12-02 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Luckily, I'm not a research mouse, so I'm not worried.

That, and I don't make it a habit of eating at fast food joints....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-12-02 14:55|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-12-02 14:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Yet another reason* to end subsidies for corn-sugar.

*as if you needed a reason.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-12-02 16:14|| 2008-12-02 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 I think a factor is the preservatives used in most American foods. Some fat is impossible to lose, as it is dense and fibrous, and will not yield even to liposuction. The doctors call it human transfat. American remains also fail to decompose as rapidly as others, if disinterred. The very long shelf life of hamburger buns, processed cheese, and all the transfat from french fries is only part of the story, as nearly all our food from the grocery store has preservatives. Even OTC meds have shelf lives of 3-10 years! Even our milk is homogenized by law but other nations often cook using fresh products or are literally homemade. When Native Americans or the Caribbean islanders eat store bought food and fast food, they gain weight and have diabetes and other diseases of obesity they didn't have when eating indigenous diets. Then there is the corn syrup in so many products, like soft drinks and candy. They need a test population such as rural Asians that eat no junk food or even access to store bought products. Also, I've seen what was called Alzheimers with fairly rapid onset in a hunter who ate mostly deer and elk, besides homegrown garden vegetables; it was Kreutzfeld-Jacobs (sp) or a form of Mad Cow Disease found in wild game. This disease is caused by prions, a protein not killed by heat. Cooking or sterilization procedures such as autoclaving surgical instruments will not destroy prions, making a misdiagnosis on a surgical patient a potential means of transmission.

Posted by Danielle 2008-12-02 18:00|| 2008-12-02 18:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Research has shown that being a laboratory rat is often hazardous to your health.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-12-02 20:18|| 2008-12-02 20:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Bah! That's a buncha crap. I've been eating McDonnies blah blah... What were we talking about? Hey, where am I?

Posted by Hellfish 2008-12-02 21:24|| 2008-12-02 21:24|| Front Page Top

#11 CNN AM > Pert basically argues that the human brain at birth is a self-contained, self-regulating/limiting pool of CHOLESTEROL, and that the addition of fast food cholester = fats puts the brain's normal cholesterol oper system in overload.

* REDDIT > THE SIX MOST GROSSEST ITEMS ON US FAST FOOD MENUS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-02 21:55|| 2008-12-02 21:55|| Front Page Top

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