New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 172

Research of the Week MCT oil helps seniors with Alzheimer’s disease. Chocolate also helps seniors with memory. The smell of putrescine (smell of death) may confer greater life satisfaction (makes you love life) on those smelling it. Oxidized linoleic acid promotes colorectal cancer. Wearing many common types of face masks causes you to breathe in … Read more

New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 171

Research of the Week Keto and protein restriction are not quite the same. The reduction in heart disease associated with light to moderate drinking may be caused by other lifestyle factors that accompany drinking—not the alcohol itself. More riboflavin, longer telomeres. Divorce has a much more detrimental effect on children’s educational attainment than parental death. … Read more

New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 170

Research of the Week Artificial sweeteners have faint links to increased cancer risks. COVID seems to increase the risk of diabetes. Africans were eating olives 100,000 years ago (at least). In middle adulthood, raising HDL and lowering blood sugar seems to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. Now, how does one do that? Minerals are important … Read more

New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 169

Research of the Week Red meat is good for older people (and younger). Using dairy to lose weight has better cardiometabolic effects than losing weight without dairy. Dairy can improve zinc absorption. Longitude within time zones and cancer risk. Links between excessive napping and Alzheimer’s. Monkeys in “fragmented forests” adapt to their surroundings by eating … Read more