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If I Had a Side Blog (#4)
1. How does the drought in Texas stack up against over one hundred years of history? The Texas state climatologist explains, and it's worth reading. He also explains what he thinks it has to do with global warming.
2. This mormon butterfly was half-female, half-male. What was its spirit?
3. Naming and shaming: The Dr. Oz Show claimed that apple juice it tested contained unsafe levels of arsenic. The FDA says that Oz is wrong, in no uncertain terms.
4. And while we're at it, there's no evidence that antioxidants are good for you. In fact they may even be bad.
5. By the way, did you know that Senator Orrin Hatch helped exempt the supplement industry from the oversight given to other drugs and health products?
6. It was 20 years ago this month:
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Maybe what works for fruit flies doesn't work for humans?
Sciencedaily reported the following about tests with fruit flies and an antioxidant in apples.
"The researchers found that apple polyphenols not only prolonged the average lifespan of fruit flies but helped preserve their ability to walk, climb and move about. In addition, apple polyphenols reversed the levels of various biochemical substances found in older fruit flies and used as markers for age-related deterioration and approaching death.
Chen and colleagues note that the results support those from other studies, including one in which women who often ate apples had a 13-22 percent decrease in the risk of heart disease, and polish the apple's popular culture image as a healthy food."
I've known about the Orin Hatch thing for a few years. It helps explain the proliferation of vitamin companies in Utah. He should have been gone a while ago.
On the plus side, I'll be contacting him about purchasing cases of my Grass Clipping supplements that supports reelection.
Oz needs shutdown with all the anti-science crap he teaches.
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