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On 09/10/2012 14:09, Dave Sill wrote:
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href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-alzheimers-type-3-diabetes/"></a><i>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</i></div>
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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.<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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Evidence please. It is not a bad hypothesis, but it takes more than
correlation to show anything. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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