on April 1, 2020 in World News
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on November 11, 2014 in World News
Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says
Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says xperimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is a key node in the brain’s reward, motivation, decision-making and addictive behaviors network. More ambiguously, in regular pot smokers, that region is better connected than it is in non-users: the flow of signal traffic is speedier to other parts of that motivation and… View Article
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on April 10, 2014 in World News
Saturated fat consumption not related to heart disease risk, study says
Saturated fat consumption not related to heart disease risk, study says Saturated fat does not cause heart disease, and the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats being pushed by mainstream medicine and the media as healthy alternatives are actually the real health threats. These are the unconventional findings of a new study out of the University of Cambridge (UoC), which revealed that saturated fat intake does not increase one’s risk of heart disease as is commonly believed. For his research, Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury, a cardiovascular epidemiologist from UoC’s Department of Public Health and Primary Care, analyzed data from 72 different studies on… View Article
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