Re:Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition
by pngai on Monday March 12, 2018 @12:33PM
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I wonder if there are categories of people that respond in similar ways when they are in the same category, but the response would vary from one category to another. For example, people with low blood pressure would not benefit from a low sodium diet. Yet we are all told "reduce your salt intake".
Re:Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition
by chillingeffect on Monday March 12, 2018 @01:12PM
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Those are nits compared to the vast amount of nutrition advice which has remained stable.
I completely agree, and it also appears to change every other decade.
Suddenly, drinking coffee became healthy, eggs stopped being unhealthy and drinking a glass of wine a day became a major risk for CVD.
Engineers are spoiled when it comes disentangeling relationships between causes and effects because our systems are relatively simple compared to the huge and complicated mess that is human (or, indeed, any) biology.