SubscribeDigest - Broccoli, Sleep, Sunlight, Cancer, and The Big Bang
Grandma was right about eating your broccoli. Broccoli Protects Skin From Sun Damage - “Add sunscreen to the list of broccoli’s health benefits. A new study suggests the potent vegetable may help protect the skin from sun damage. … Researchers say the broccoli extract did not physically absorb the UV rays, but it appeared to work at the cellular level to prevent erythema.” Unfortunately it was a extract applied topically, so there’s no telling if this carries over to actually eating broccoli.
One more time: Put the little ones to bed. Children Who Do Not Get Enough Sleep Sustain More Injuries - “This study shows that the average number of injuries during the preschool years is two times higher for children who don’t get enough sleep each day as described by their mothers.”
But I thought the sun was almost as bad for you as saturated fat. Exposure To Sunlight May Decrease Risk Of Advanced Breast Cancer By Half - “In a study reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the researchers found that women with high sun exposure had half the risk of developing advanced breast cancer…” That doesn’t mean go sunbathe for hours.
And here I thought fat intake was the risk factor for cancer. Study details link between obesity, carbs and esophageal cancer (Abstract) - “Carbohydrates were also unique in that no other studied nutrients were found to correlate with esophageal cancer rates.”
That’ll make you think twice about putting that stuff on your pumpkin pie. Horrifying 12-day Cool Whip experiment
Well now there’s a mind-bender. An interesting theory of the Big Bang - “According to Turok, who teaches at Cambridge University, the Big Bang represents just one stage in an infinitely repeated cycle of universal expansion and contraction. Turok theorizes that neither time nor the universe has a beginning or end.”
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Terry on 03 Mar 2008 at 10:54 am #
Regarding the breast cancer, sun exposure and vitamin D, has anyone who can pick it apart read the complete study to determine why the researchers came to their conclusion? How do they know that in women with breast cancer vitamin D isn’t being sequestered or conversion down regulated? Something like what happens with iron.
I have a similar horror story about fake food. About 1980 or ‘81 just before the big push to remove artificil preservatives from foods I baked a choclate cake from a commercial cake mix and used canned icing. At the time, I lived in a second story apartment with a balcony. A piece of cake was accidently dropped from the balcony into the juniper and bark covered planting below. I didn’t bother to retrieve it because I figured the ants would carry it away in a day or two. Now, I could see this piece of cake everytime I walked by it on my way to my car and it didn’t go away. In fact is stayed absolutely pristine looking for weeks and this was in California in the summer time! The ants that were crawling all over the place never touched it. I think the hardened slice was eventually cleaned up by someone. I was totally grossed out and didn’t touch a cake mix for years.
This cool whip experiment is also a good way to know if ice cream is real. Any ice cream that holds it general shape over night, I don’t eat. Real ice cream should be a puddle in less than an hour or so depending on temerature.
Marc on 03 Mar 2008 at 12:45 pm #
“Turok theorizes that neither time nor the universe has a beginning or end.”
Isn’t that what Einstein said also?
Thanks for the continued great posts Scott.
Very enjoyable!
Marc
sarena on 03 Mar 2008 at 1:13 pm #
Yeah that cool whip thing is from a great friend and mentor of mine, Jonathan Fields. When I first got it, I sent it to everyone I know. Gross what fake foods are when you think about them!!
Real food for real people!!
Lemur on 03 Mar 2008 at 1:45 pm #
The cool whip thing was gross. Good to know though.
Scott Kustes on 03 Mar 2008 at 3:46 pm #
And to think of all the Cool Whip I ate as a kid. It’s a wonder I’m not preserved for ages to come.
Sarena, I grabbed the Cool Whip thing from your post on the PM I think.
Terry, Love the cake story. It reminds me of the experiment the Super Size Me guy, Morgan Spurlock, did where he put everything in jars and the fries were still looking like fries several weeks later after everything else had degraded and rotted.
Cheers
Scott
Scott Kustes on 04 Mar 2008 at 9:13 am #
Terry,
Sorry, missed your question yesterday. Unfortunately, all I can find is the abstract on PNAS, which doesn’t give much of anything to look at. I’m not sure if anyone else has taken the time to look at the study either.
Cheers
Scott