[ExI] The Dementia Plague

[Anders Sandberg]

On 09/10/2012 14:09, Dave Sill wrote:
> <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-alzheimers-type-3-diabetes/>/The 
> idea that Alzheimer's might be Type 3 diabetes has been around since 
> 2005, but the connection between poor diet and Alzheimer's is becoming 
> more convincing/

Note that this still does not merit the term "type 3 diabetes" - it is a 
cringeworthy distortion of what we know, a bit like calling ageing "AIDS 
type 2" (you do acquire immunodeficiency from it). Nobody outside the 
popular press (of which New Scientist is part) uses the term seriously.

> /
> What's new is the thought that while diabetes doesn't "cause" 
> Alzheimer's, they have the same root: an over consumption of those 
> "foods" that mess with insulin's many roles.
> /

Evidence please. It is not a bad hypothesis, but it takes more than 
correlation to show anything.


-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University

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