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Gideon M-K; Health Nerd
Gideon M-K; Health Nerd

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5 days ago

The Ongoing Risk Of Long COVID

What are the rates of long-term COVID-19 symptoms in 2023 and beyond? — It’s 2023, and the individual risk from COVID-19 has never been lower. We’ve developed new treatments, brilliant vaccines, and have very strong immunity to the disease built up over the years since it first emerged. While COVID-19 is undoubtedly a public health issue — it probably always will be —…

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The Ongoing Risk Of Long COVID
The Ongoing Risk Of Long COVID
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Aug 22

Are Blue Light Glasses A Complete Waste Of Time?

A new study casts doubt on the trend of avoiding blue light — Blue light is one of the many things that hits the headlines often, because it is both a symptom of the modernity and also a thing that is vaguely theorized to be potentially bad for you. We all love to hate something we invented only decades ago. One of the…

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Are Blue Light Glasses A Complete Waste Of Time?
Are Blue Light Glasses A Complete Waste Of Time?
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Aug 17

Cancer Rates In Young People

Explaining the recent news about more cancer in people under 50 — This week, there have been a swathe of scary new headlines about cancer in young people. …

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Cancer Rates In Young People
Cancer Rates In Young People
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Aug 10

Why Cancer ‘Cure’ Stories Are Mostly Nonsense

We probably won’t be annihilating all solid tumors any time soon — At least once a year, we get a series of media headlines proclaiming that scientists have hit the holy grail. That we’ve found the big one. That the cure for cancer is just around the corner, or potentially already here. We’ve recently seen a perfect example of this hubbub. News…

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Why Cancer ‘Cure’ Stories Are Mostly Nonsense
Why Cancer ‘Cure’ Stories Are Mostly Nonsense
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Jul 29

Misdiagnoses Aren’t Killing Or Disabling 800,000 People A Year

Why the evidence doesn’t really show that misdiagnoses are a leading cause of death in the United States — As a society, we absolutely love a story where healthcare is the villain. There’s a regular parade of news where some research study seems to indicate that healthcare professionals are destroying lives. …

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Misdiagnoses Aren’t Killing Or Disabling 800,000 People A Year
Misdiagnoses Aren’t Killing Or Disabling 800,000 People A Year
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Jul 18

Sports Supplements Are A Waste Of Time

A new study shows just how worthless many sports supplements are — Sports supplements occupy a weird space in the world. It’s almost impossible to go to a gym regularly and not have some sort of supplement shoved in your face with the advice that it will massively improve your fitness journey. …

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Sports Supplements Are A Waste Of Time
Sports Supplements Are A Waste Of Time
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Jul 14

Artificial Sweeteners, Aspartame, And Cancer

Explaining the confusing news about artificial sweeteners and your risk of cancer — The news about artificial sweeteners is incredibly confusing, and often scary. There was the recent story about sucralose being potentially genotoxic, and now the news that aspartame is possibly causing cancer. There’s nothing we love to hate more than a substance with the word ‘artificial’ in the name. …

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Artificial Sweeteners, Aspartame, And Cancer
Artificial Sweeteners, Aspartame, And Cancer
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Jul 10

Raw Milk Literally Kills People

Why you should avoid raw milk and never give it to children — Raw milk is one of those perennial topics that comes around every year or two. Sooner or later, people will forget the last time that raw milk caused an infectious disease outbreak, and everyone will listen to some sort of wellness influencer who claims that drinking the stuff will make…

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Raw Milk Literally Kills People
Raw Milk Literally Kills People
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Jun 30

Diet Coke Probably Isn’t Giving You Cancer

Why the aspartame in artificially sweetened foods probably isn’t worth worrying about — Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that is used in a lot of products, including Diet Coke and Coke Zero. Like most artificial sweeteners, we have a wonderful love/hate relationship with it. It’s sweet but doesn’t have any calories, so it’s great for people who want to lose a bit of…

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Diet Coke Probably Isn’t Giving You Cancer
Diet Coke Probably Isn’t Giving You Cancer
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Jun 28

There Is No ‘Best’ Way To Lose Weight

The best diet is probably the one that works for you — The world of dieting is a fascinating one. If you’re following the latest celebrity trends, what you should be eating changes almost weekly. This is always referenced back to some scientific finding, even though the evidence on dieting hasn’t shifted all that much for at least a decade, maybe more. …

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There Is No ‘Best’ Way To Lose Weight
There Is No ‘Best’ Way To Lose Weight
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Gideon M-K; Health Nerd

Gideon M-K; Health Nerd

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Epidemiologist. Writer. Podcaster. Twitter https://twitter.com/GidMK FB www.facebook.com/gidmkhealthnerd/ Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com

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