I can't resist this one. Obese people are more likely to be mental?
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was taking part in "Dry January". I didn't make a big song and dance about it, but I decided to go for a calendar month or so with no alcohol. A few people have asked me about my experience, so here are a few points. Why take a break from drinking? Alcohol is an interesting topic. As a drug it is widely accepted in society, central to so much of our socialising and leisure. There seem to be lots of health benefits - so we are told - yet there are also a lot of problems in terms of health, relationships and lifestyle that come from drinking. Over a few years I'd begun to become aware and then concerned that I was drinking too much and too regularly. I am in a busy and stressful job and sometimes a glass of wine after work to relax is really helpful. But over time, one glass became two. Two glasses became ....I might as well finish the bottle. A habit got established....and was starting to get too e...
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"Antioxidant supplements block the response of HDL to simvastatin-niacin therapy in patients with coronary artery disease and low HDL. Editorial"
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1116851
Total Hdl increase was blunted, but the Hdl2-c increase was wiped out entirely by the antioxidants.
That's just the abstract, but this statement is interesting
"Because HDL can prevent LDL oxidation, the low-HDL state also may benefit clinically from supplemental antioxidants."
Or maybe LDL oxidation participates in a cascade of signals that ought to lead to an increase in HDL? Treating antioxidants as if they're interchangeable, as if each individual antioxidant doesn't have unique enzymatic etc. effects in the body is so silly. As if it didn't matter whether a stray electron is taken up by CoQ10 or vitamin c or e or lipoic acid.