paula_g: I finally managed to loose all those extra kilos from summer. The starving diet always works, but that, together with normal diet, both require extreme willpower and determination, as a prerequisite. I am going to raise my food budget again to include healthy food and natural supplements, once again. Cutting those off to afford me other goodies especially in entertainment, had been the worst idea i have ever had, let alone implemented in my
to-do list Not that I'm into dieting but, let me tell what has impressed me recently.
Dr Michael Mosley, whose father died from Diabetes, was finally diagnosed with it. The diagnosis is final; the only clinical path is containment. Or it was, until he cured it. (Big claim, I know.)
I noticed Mosley when he, just after medical school, became a journalist. His first report was for the British current affair programme,
Panorama. He wanted to investigate the extraordinary claims of two Australian doctors who discovered a bacterial cause for stomach ulcers. (Medical consensus for centuries was clear on the subject: no organism could possibly live in the acidic environment of the gut.)
It was through his report that Robin Warren & Barry Marshall won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the Helicobacter pylori cause of ulcers, which also kicked off the past quarter century of microbiome research.
Some linkies:
Nobel Prize in Physiology, 2005
BJ Marshall;
JR Warren;
wiki;
Eat, Fast and Live Longer (BBC
Horizon documentary);
Guardian interview.
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