Kenyon (was: Preventable Causes of Death)

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Rod: Dr Kenyon is extremely well known in the field of aging; and is considered by many as a pioneer in the field. Here’s one web description of her work: http://www.uvm.edu/president/DLS/cynthiakenyon.html

I never claimed that she followed an Atkins diet. IIRC it was you who first said this and at the time I was pretty astonished that you were dismissive of her. She does avoid sugar (as most of us do) and also high starch foods (rice, potatoes, bread, for example). I would say that her diet closely resembles that of many of us without the calorie restriction part. Her work is well known and there are links to it all over the web.

Here’s a link to some pubmed papers that she authored or co-authored. If the link doesn’t translate well after I post it, just type “ Kenyon” into Pubmed:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

On 1/18/10 5:24 PM, " perspect1111 " <perspect1111@...> wrote:

Hi Francesca:

When you refer to Dr. Kenyon's work on blood glucose, do you have a reference or two of papers on this that she has authored which especially impressed you?

IIRC, what was posted here was simply a rather vague statement asserting that when she added pure sugar to her nemotodes they lived less long, and because of that she now follows an Atkins Diet. I have not seen any papers detailing carefully controlled studies which support such an approach. But of course that does not mean there aren't any!

[Naturally, I do not advocate the inclusion of sugar in the diet. But I would be interested to see a serious explanation of the evidence behind, and the logic by which, she (apparently) advocates an Atkins diet.]

Or do I have my wires crossed on this? (It would not be the first time!)

Rodney.

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> >> > Hi folks:

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> >> > I was taking a snoop at Jeff Novick's Facebook page and came across an

> >> interesting post containing information I had not seen previously,

> >> quantifying annual deaths in the US from preventable causes. The numbers

> >> were based on data from 2005.

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> >> > In that year here are the number of deaths believed to have resulted from

> >> each of the following causes, out of 2.5 million total deaths:

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> >> > 467,000 --- Tobacco smoking.

> >> > 395,000 --- Hypertension.

> >> > 216,000 --- Excessive body weight.

> >> > 191,000 --- Inadequate exercise.

> >> > 102,000 --- Excessive salt intake.

> >> > 84,000 --- Low intake of beneficial fat from fish.

> >> > 82,000 --- Intake of trans fatty acids.

> >> > 64,000 --- Excessive alcohol intake.

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> >> > I found this interesting since only the body weight issue is directly

> >> related to CR. So this list provides, at least for me, a helpful overview of

> >> the things I really ought to be doing in addition to CR. On the question of

> >> alcohol, the study found that, at least for the population as a whole the

> >> well known benefits were outweighed by the disadvantages.

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> >> > Of course almost all of us here have long realized these are health issues.

> >> And no doubt have adapted our lives accordingly. But it is nice to see

> >> numbers attached to them to give some idea of their relative importance. For

> >> example, I had not realized the fish fats EPA and DHA to be as significant as

> >> this study has found.

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> >> > Source:

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> >> > " The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk

> >> assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors. "

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> >> > Danaei G, Ding EL, Mozaffarian D, B, Rehm J, Murray CJ, Ezzati M.

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> >> > PLoS Med. 2009 Apr 28;6(4):e1000058. Epub 2009 Apr 28.

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> >> > PMID: 19399161

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> >> > [Thanks Jeff!]

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> >> > Rodney.

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