INTERESTING TIMES

7/2010 report from Cardiff School of Health Sciences in Wales
n = 655 men
41 of those men reported eating honey regularly
followed them for 25 years, examined diets
honey eaters significantly less likely to die
‘hazard ratio for all-cause mortality’ dropped 56% even when adjusted for possible confounders
(95% confidence limits 0.23, 0.86; P<0.017)

( abstract and lots more honey info )

See article on MD consult.
( notes on article including some interesting science on calcium supplementation contributing to calcification of atherosclerosis and increasing cardiovascular events )

Which condition demonstrates nonuniform joint space narrowing, osteophytes, subchondral sclerosis, & subchondral cysts?
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You may be surprised to learn that having the common skin disease psoriasis may triple your risk of a heart attack if you're under age 50. This finding results from five years of medical data collected on British patients. It appears that both psoriasis and athlerosclerosis are mediated by T-cell (immune) mediated inflammation, so the correlation could result from a shared cause.
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