Here’s your daily dose of stupid. Based on nine mice.
Future researchers will find bizarre the notion we thought lab mice were good analogs for humans in diet studies. https://t.co/xrT0dOoH02
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 19, 2016
Category Archives: Health
3-D Printing Human Tissue
This looks very promising. I can imagine at some point they’ll be able to actually print entire limbs, if they can’t come up with improved mechanical designs, that will be as good as the original. But organ replacement is the most exciting possibility, I think.
Cryonics
This seems huge. Researchers have preserved a rabbit brain down to the neuron.
Life Extension
A 25% increase in healthy lifespan in mice, by genetic surgery. It’s unclear, though, if this can be done to existing phenotypes.
[Update a while later]
Here’s a more interesting take from Ed Yong.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, they do actually seem to be clearing senescent cells from normal mice. This is pretty exciting stuff.
The Food Pyramid Scheme
A call for an impartial scientific review of government guidelines.
They’re currently worse than useless.
The Calorie
Counting calories is mindless, and generally useless, if not actually counterproductive. The calorie counts on fast food menus are pretty much meaningless.
Hillary’s Health
Is she hiding major problems?
It wouldn’t surprise me. Hiding things is, after all, what Clintons do.
Fish Oil Substitutes
Omega 3 fatty acids from GMO plants. I wish there was better data on just how effective Omega 3s are.
The Food Fight Over Government Nutrition
No, the Republicans aren’t “politicizing it”:
For decades, the government has advised Americans on what they should eat. The advice isn’t just advisory; it drives everything from school lunches and agricultural subsidies to marketing for those bowls of candy we call breakfast cereal. But the science behind this enterprise has always been shaky.
Yes. And Michelle’s lunch program continues to constitute literal, physical child abuse.
ObamaCare
We were told there would be no arithmetic. https://t.co/KBQddrglwx
— HealthCaliphate (@HealthDotGov) December 18, 2015