Dr. Raphael Cuomo, a professor on the College of California, San Diego Faculty of Drugs who’s work I’ve talked about beforehand, referred to as my consideration to an enchanting current paper he wrote. It’s about “dietary epidemiology danger–survival paradox”, for which the time period “Cuomo’s Paradox” has additionally been coined. There may be additionally abstract of the paradox in this youtube video. To summarize, there are well being and vitamin suggestions to scale back the chance of buying circumstances like heart problems and sure forms of most cancers. However the paradox is that if you have already got one in all these ailments, these identical suggestions can grow to be contraindicated as a result of they’ll now improve the chance of dying from the illness. An vital exemple is weight problems, which is nicely often known as a danger issue. However carrying some additional kilos could be protecting after you have already got a illness.

Proof for extra results like this (like the consequences of alcohol and ldl cholesterol) are lined within the paper. Dr. Cuomo is cautious to level out that we could not but have sufficient data to alter well being suggestions, however extra analysis is unquestionably wanted on this intriguing paradox. Here’s a hyperlink to the total textual content within the Journal of Diet.