This Week In Wellness

TWIW 92: Single use plastics banned

This Week In Wellness after a brief halt to the plan caused by the Coronavirus my home state South Australia will push ahead with its plan to ban some single use plastics (including straws, cutlery and drink stirrers) by March 1 and indicated that more items are likely to be added in the future.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-23/sa-ban-of-single-use-plastics-and-straws-to-start-in-march/13009582
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TWIW 91: Women were hunters too

This Week In Wellness the bones of a 9000 year old female found in the Andes have shed new light into the role of females in hunter gatherer societies. The skeleton was found with 20 projectile points and blades stacked neatly by her side, indicating that she was likely a high-status hunter.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/woman-hunter-ancient-andean-remains-challenge-old-ideas-who-speared-big-game
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TWIW 90: A Keto Diet may help Alzheimer’s

This Week In Wellness a new systematic review shows the potential benefits of a ketogenic diet for treating Alzheimer’s disease. With between 400 thousand and 500 thousand Australians suffering from dementia in 2020, and Alzheimer’s accounting for 70% of those, it really is an important finding. Especially as the billions spent searching for a pharmaceutical intervention have been largely ineffective.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/a-ketogenic-diet-may-help-alzheimers-disease
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32597927/
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TWIW 89: The 10 most commonly taken drugs in Australia

This Week In Wellness Australian Prescriber published its annual list of the 10 most commonly taken and the 10 most costly prescription drugs for the Australian Government based on Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data collected between July 2019 and June 2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/01/zoloft-enters-list-of-10-most-commonly-prescribed-drugs-in-australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-12-01/australias-most-commonly-prescribed-medicines-statins/12936626
https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/top-10-drugs-2019-20
http://anmf.org.au/pages/the-facts-on-australias-health-spending#:~:text=Approximately%2040%25%20of%20Australia’s%20health,than%202%25%20spent%20on%20prevention
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TWIW 88: Bottle fed babies swallow millions of microplastics a day

This Week In Wellness a study published in nature food has shown that sterilising plastic baby bottles at the high temperatures recommended causes them to shed millions of microplastics and trillions of nano plastics every single day.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/19/bottle-fed-babies-swallow-millions-microplastics-day-study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-00171-y
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TWIW 87: Children’s own immune system protects them from Covid-19

This Week In Wellness Doctors and scientists at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s hospital have studied three children who tested negative and did not get seriously ill with Covid-19 despite spending a week and a half with their Covid-19 positive parents and concluded that they had in fact contracted the virus and that it was their own immune system that had been “highly effective” in stopping the virus from replicating.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-18/murdoch-research-children-and-covid-19-immunity/12890670
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19545-8
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TWIW 86: Household chemicals alter microbiome

This Week In Wellness common household chemicals may alter the gut microbiome. This study measured the levels of semi-organic compounds found in detergents, plastics, soaps, shampoos, hair sprays and stain and water repellent fabrics in the blood and urine of 69 toddlers and preschoolers and then examined their gut microbiome using fecal samples.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201112080906.htm
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00776
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TWIW 85: Positivity prevents memory loss

This Week In Wellness new research published in the journal Psychological Science showed that people who feel “enthusiastic and cheerful” are less likely to experience memory decline as they age adding to a growing body of research on the benefits of positivity in ageing.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201029135501.htm
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620953883
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TWIW 84: The Great Barrington Declaration

This Week In Wellness infectious disease epidemiologists, public health scientists and concerned citizens have come together online to state their grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach called “Focused Protection” in a document titled The Great Barrington Declaration.
Over 550,000 concerned citizens, over 11,000 medical & public health scientists and over 30,000 medical practitioners from all over the world have stated their concerns that current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.
https://gbdeclaration.org/
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TWIW 83: Is pink salt healthy?

This Week In Wellness “Independent” Australian researchers Nutrition Research Australia (NRAUS) are asking people to #rethinkthepink suggesting that pink salts contain low levels of nutrients and potentially harmful levels of heavy metals.
The study looked at 31 samples of pink salts commercially available in Australia and suggested that the contents were unpredictable and inconsistent in nature. The level of nutrients in the pink salt varied widely with some containing no iron and others 17mg of iron per 100g and some containing 53mg of calcium whilst others contained 574mg.
https://nraus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Media_Release.pdf
https://nraus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Backgrounder_on_NRAUS__Team.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3zEbiGRXLqpE7RABar_fPAboUeOsIVIJ2grl45oKmHP4zkBq0__7X-yKI
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TWIW 82: FDA warns about dental amalgam

This Week In Wellness the FDA has re-evaluated its recommendations on amalgam fillings in teeth. The FDA have now acknowledged that the mercury vapour released from these devices may cause harmful health effects in “certain groups”. In particular pregnant women, nursing women, children (especially those under 6), people with neurological disease such as MS, Alzheimer and Parkinson’s, people with impaired kidney function and people with a “heightened sensitivity to mercury”.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-issues-recommendations-certain-high-risk-groups-regarding-mercury-containing-dental-amalgam
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TWIW 81: Vaping leads to smoking

This Week In Wellness a new review has found that e-cigarettes triple the chances of a non-smoker taking up regular cigarettes.
Researchers from the Australian National University’s national centre for epidemiology and population health looked at 25 studies on e-cigarette use and smoking and found that every single one of them showed that e-smokers were more likely to become smokers. Especially the youth.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/30/vaping-increases-the-chances-of-regular-smoking-threefold-australian-review-finds
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