This Week In Wellness

TWIW 68: No benefit to reducing Saturated fat says Cardiology Journal

This Week In Wellness a review in the Journal of The American College of Cardiology has stated that not only were there no beneficial effects of reducing saturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease or total mortality, there were in fact protective effects against stroke if the saturated fat intake was retained.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109720356874
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TWIW 67: Can vitamin D prevent allergies?

This Week In Wellness Australian researchers are investigating whether vitamin D could be the answer to our country’s “allergy epidemic”. With one in 10 infants and one in 20 children in Australia already suffering from food-related allergies, and with the rates seemingly on the rise, researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute are hoping that vitamin D might provide the answers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-19/allergies-trial-to-test-vitamin-d-on-children-and-infants/12372224
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TWIW 66: Lifestyle can reverse diabetes

This Week In Wellness a new study investigating the impact of lifestyle interventions for early stage type 2 diabetics has shown that nearly two thirds can achieve complete remission within 12 months.
The study published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology comes on the back of many other studies in recent years showing the success of lifestyle interventions without the need for medication. It investigated 150 subjects with Middle Eastern or North African ancestry and an average age of 42 years. Participants we asked to follow a diet known as the Cambridge Weight Plan whilst also completing at least 150 minutes of physical exercise a week and walking at least 10,000 steps a day and were compared to a control group receiving standard medical care.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/diet-exercise-reverses-diabetes-remission-lancet-trial-reports/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(20)30117-0/fulltext
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TWIW 65: Couples “should wear masks while having sex”

This Week In Wellness scientists from Harvard University have advised couples to wear masks whilst having sex and suggests they should be advised to engage in sexual activity via telephone, video chat services or masturbation in order to reduce there risk of spreading the corona virus.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/couples-should-wear-masks-having-22123980
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7233185/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2765654?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=050720
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TWIW 64: Tummy time leads to better development

This Week In Wellness Australian researchers have shown that infant tummy time is associated with improved development, healthier weight babies and improved head shape. It was also linked with improved social and cognitive function as well as walking.
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/05/02/peds.2019-2168
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-healthy-children-need-to-sit-less-and-play-more
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TWIW 63: Social media giants increase censorship

This Week In Wellness social media giants Facebook and Youtube have increased their efforts to censor and “deplatform” debate around Covid19 lockdowns from lay people, scientists and experts alike whilst Twitter has maintained a more open approach and more and more people are flocking to MeWe, founded by entrepreneur and privacy advocate Mark Weinstein.
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TWIW 62: Meat avoidance linked to depression and anxiety

This Week In Wellness a study from Clinical Reviews in Food Science and Medicine has indicated that avoidance of meat in the diet may be linked to increased rates of anxiety and depression. This is not the first time that these links have been drawn and suggested reasons for the link include reduced omega-3 fatty acid intake, vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies, iron and zinc deficiencies and even the potential for higher levels of pesticide consumption due to the higher consumption of plant based foods.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2020.1741505
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TWIW 61: Germany to ban Glyphosate

This Week In Wellness Germany has moved to ban the use of the herbicide Glyphosate from 2023 and phase out its use from 2020 as Adelaide council Marion moves to join other Australian councils in phasing out its use. Several legal challenges by over 50,000 Americans against the manufacturers of Glyphosate (ag and pharmaceutical company Bayer) claim it has contributed to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cases with the three trials completed so far all falling against Bayer. Despite this Germany plans on banning the chemical over concerns for their insect populations rather than their human ones, citing concerns for the impact on their food sources. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has labeled glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic.”
https://www.agprofessional.com/article/germany-will-ban-glyphosate-after-2023-save-insects
https://www.agweb.com/article/glyphosate-overview-where-are-we-now
https://usrtk.org/monsanto-roundup-trial-tracker-index/
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TWIW 60: Shortfalls causing women to birth outside the system

This Week In Wellness a research article published in Biomed Central (BMC) has shown that women choosing to birth outside of hospitals, be that a home birth or a free birth, did so in search of the “best and safest” birth experience.
In Australia 97% of births occur in a hospital setting however this paper investigated 28 women who chose to birth outside of that system between 2010 and 2014, with 13 choosing a home birth and another 15 choosing a freebirth (intentionally unassisted by any health professional).
https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-020-02944-6
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TWIW 59: Chiropractic maintenance reduces pain episodes

This Week In Wellness a study has shown that receiving Chiropractic care at regular planned intervals regardless of symptoms had more pain free weeks and shorter painful episodes of lower back pain compared to people who sought care “when needed”. The study was conducted in Sweden where 98% of all chiropractors who are members of the Swedish Chiropractic Association consider maintenance care to be clinically useful and beneficial for patients with recurrent and persistent musculoskeletal pain and was published in Chiropractic and Manual Therapies.
https://chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12998-020-00309-6
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TWIW 58: COVID-19 cases may in fact be 50-80 times higher

This Week In Wellness a pre-print study published by medRxiv for the first time measured the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies in a representative sample of the Californian population. Stating that “to date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have been designed without seroprevalence data to inform epidemic parameters”. “A sero-survey gives you a snapshot in time of who is infected in your given population,” says Kanta Subbarao, a virologist at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne going on to say that these kinds of studies are very important for a virus that can cause mild or no symptoms.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01095-0
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TWIW 57: Is Sweden the Covid19 answer?

This Week In Wellness Sweden could be the new model that countries around the world seek to model as their Coronavirus infection rates and deaths plummet despite not imposing the strict lock-downs seen in other parts of the world. Sweden has not closed bars, cafes, restaurants, playgrounds or schools and gatherings of up to 50 people are still allowed. Despite this the Swedish infection rate and death rate for the last two days has dropped lower than it has been in a fortnight as the logarithmic growth charts suggest that the curve is well and truly flattening.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8212365/Swedish-PM-tighten-coronavirus-restrictions-Austria-De
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/10/europe/sweden-lockdown-turmp-intl/index.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-sweden-trump-lockdown-herd-wrong-a9459111.html
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