Interesting Links for 18-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. I have the kind of mind that just never ever thinks of thing. I'm rubbish at puzzles too.

(tags:language SherlockHolmes house )

2. Why rails buckle in Britain

(tags:trains temperature UK )

3. Ministers to break promise to give MPs a final say before approving trade deal with Australia

(tags:UK Australia trade lies conservatives )

4. More than 4 servings of fruit per day will mess up your blood sugar

(tags:fruit sugar insulin diabetes )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

If you are me then more than zero servings of fruit per day will mess up your blood sugar. If you're not me then I think this varies a lot from person to person.

[andrewducker]

True. A more accurate headline would have been "If you have more than 4 pieces of fruit per day then you are more likely to..."

[channelpenguin]

A more accurate one would have started with "if you already have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease" !

[channelpenguin]

Mountainkiss, you are totally correct. The same foods can have dramatically different effects on blood sugar for different people. Also, the same food in the same person can have differing blood sugar effects depending upon a number of other factors.

2015 study
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119143445.htm

https://www.weizmann.ac.il/WeizmannCompass/sections/briefs/the-algorithm-diet

Later, different, study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6484621/