This Week In Wellness

This Week In Wellness researchers led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have suggested that boosting the immune system might be a good strategy for dealing with COVID-19. Whilst this might initially appear like a sarcastic, parody headline it is in fact in contradiction with the immuno-suppressive approaches that have been used around the world.

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/boosting-immune-system-a-potential-treatment-strategy-for-covid-19/

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This Week In Wellness a paper published online by Cambridge University Press has shown that Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay the role of sugary beverages in the obesity epidemic.

Scientists used information gathered from over 18,000 pages of emails via freedom of information requests made by a US non-profit public health group “Right To Know”. These emails were between Coca-Cola and public health academics at the West Virginia University and University of Colorado who formed part of the supposedly independent anti obesity think tank the Global Energy Balance Network.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8589497/Coca-Colas-work-scientists-low-point-history-public-health.html

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/evaluating-cocacolas-attempts-to-influence-public-health-in-their-own-words-analysis-of-cocacola-emails-with-public-health-academics-leading-the-global-energy-balance-network/03A12A2379B132AFBDBE7A462ECB4041

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This Week In Wellness a group of physicians calling themselves America’s Frontline Doctors have dominated world wide news cycles and social media channels, despite efforts to censor them. Social media platforms have this week scrambled to delete the repeatedly posted video featuring 7 doctors claiming to be at the front line of America’s Coronavirus response. Critics suggest that whilst these doctors have active medical licenses they are offering little more than personal opinions from supporters of the Trump administration.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/30/americas-frontline-doctors-tout-hydroxychloroquine-covid-who-they/5535096002/

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This Week In Wellness facial recognition cameras being trialled in East Perth have raised concerns about their scope of use and the potential for human rights breaches. Whilst facial recognition software is legitimately used by law and border enforcement officials to identify individuals based on their facial features using artificial intelligence technology, in other parts of the world the scope of use is much more broad, with China using it widely for it’s controversial “social credit system”.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-17/facial-surveillance-slowly-being-trialled-around-the-country/12308282

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This Week In Wellness creating bio-diverse green spaces can help to “re-wild the microbiome” of our environment and as a result improve human health.

A research team led by the University of Adelaide published a study in Restoration Ecology compared carrying levels of green space diversity from lawns to re vegetated woodlands has shown that re-vegetation of green spaces can improve soil microbiome diversity towards a more natural, bio-diverse state. It is believed that the increased diversity and number of microbiota may provide immune system training and regulation that is beneficial to the overall health of humans.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-microbiome-rewilding-biodiverse-urban-green.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.13175

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This Week In Wellness scientists have identified a new strain of swine flu in China capable of creating another pandemic. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the paper states that whilst it is carried by pigs, it can affect humans and has “all the hallmarks” of becoming highly contagious in humans and needs close monitoring.

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This Week In Wellness a review in the Journal of The American College of Cardiology has stated that not only were there no beneficial effects of reducing saturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease or total mortality, there were in fact protective effects against stroke if the saturated fat intake was retained.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109720356874

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This Week In Wellness Australian researchers are investigating whether vitamin D could be the answer to our country’s “allergy epidemic”. With one in 10 infants and one in 20 children in Australia already suffering from food-related allergies, and with the rates seemingly on the rise, researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute are hoping that vitamin D might provide the answers.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-19/allergies-trial-to-test-vitamin-d-on-children-and-infants/12372224

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This Week In Wellness a new study investigating the impact of lifestyle interventions for early stage type 2 diabetics has shown that nearly two thirds can achieve complete remission within 12 months.

The study published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology comes on the back of many other studies in recent years showing the success of lifestyle interventions without the need for medication. It investigated 150 subjects with Middle Eastern or North African ancestry and an average age of 42 years. Participants we asked to follow a diet known as the Cambridge Weight Plan whilst also completing at least 150 minutes of physical exercise a week and walking at least 10,000 steps a day and were compared to a control group receiving standard medical care.

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/diet-exercise-reverses-diabetes-remission-lancet-trial-reports/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(20)30117-0/fulltext

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This Week In Wellness scientists from Harvard University have advised couples to wear masks whilst having sex and suggests they should be advised to engage in sexual activity via telephone, video chat services or masturbation in order to reduce there risk of spreading the corona virus.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/couples-should-wear-masks-having-22123980

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7233185/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2765654?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=050720

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