John Ray

Hard truths about soda taxesThe movement to implement a "fat tax" can be traced all the way back to a 1994 New York Times op-ed by Yale University's Kelly Brownell. Professor Brownell has continued his advocacy for such taxes, both alone and along with former New York City Health Commissio...
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Scientists make an AIDS breakthroughBut unlikely to be of use for long, sadly. Knocking out 90 of the HIV strains is not enough. It will just lead to the resistant 10 multiplyingUS researchers have discovered two powerful antibodies that neutralise more than 90 per cent of all known strains of the H...
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Fish oil may cut breast cancer risk 'by a third'The food freaks just LOVE fish oil. If it lived up to just 1 of the claims for it, it would be a wonder food. So it is nice to see proper caution in the rubric below. The research most probably showed no more than the usual better health of middle clas...
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Viagra causes syphilisThat is the sort of dumb conclusion we would normally expect from epidemiologists to the finding below that users of Viagra are more likely to get STDs. That third factors -- such as behaviour -- have to be considered is normally beyond themMen age 40 or older who use Pfizer In...
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Snacking on nuts and seeds 'could keep Alzheimer's at bay'One nut deserves another -- or something. The study below found nothing about nuts in fact. It found that very elderly people with good serum levels of nutrients were less likely to get Alzheimer's. All it probably proves is that people who a...
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