Gin. Beware of gin. This report from St. Luke’s Hospital, Guildford, Surrey, UK, explains: “LUNCHTIME GIN AND TONIC A CAUSE OF REACTIVE HYPOGLYCÆMIA“, Stephen J.D. O’Keefe [pictured here — his is now in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] , Vincent Marks, The Lancet, Volume 309, Issue 8025, 18 June 1977, Pages 128-8. The authors write: “10 healthy young subjects […]
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Relationship: Beer Belly and Beer
“Beer Consumption and the ‘Beer Belly’: Scientific Basis or Common Belief?” M. Schutze, M. Schulz, A. Steffen, M.M. Bergmann, A. Kroke, L. Lissner, and H. Boeing, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 63, no. 9, September 2009, pp. 1143–9. (Thanks to Tim Reese for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the German Institute […]
Food-related medical terms (food for thought)
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Gwinyai Masukume is joining our gang of regular bloggers. This is his first post at improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com. Please welcome him!] Besides food acting as source of energy for the brain during thinking, food (drinks, utensils, waiters, etc.) can literally be used for thought. Various situations encountered in medicine have been named after food […]
Dead in one country, but still alive in another
“Apparently a patient can be dead in one country, but still alive in another, under the same circumstances,” writes Dr. Erwin Kompanje of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in his essay “How dead is a brain dead patient?” BONUS (for philosophers): The Shrödinger’s Cat paradox is not exactly analogous to this, but also is not exactly not.