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Originally Posted by GerryW
PD apparently has a lot of causes, age and toxicity from various sources, being some of them. It might be an overlooked coincidence that PD was rarely observed before the industrial revolution and that solvents and other chemicals use increased along with sugar consumption. http://www.webmedcentral.com/article_view/1132
Sucrose, or table sugar consists of glucose and fructose. Consumption in Dr. Parkinson's day was a small fraction of today's intake. http://articles.businessinsider.com/...apita-american
Sugar might be part of the story or have no relationship at all but I find it interesting. |
sure it's interesting, there's more research on the connection between insulin, diabetes and pd.
i also think statistics on health problems weren't very good prior to the industrial revolution or even prior to the information revolution.
it would be easy to correlate obesity levels and pd in a country like sweden where they keep national health statistics but like with any correlation, there could be a totally different cause in play like an increase in a food additives, etc.