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I really can't say I'm surprised. This day and age everything causes cancer. I remember watching on the news a couple of years back some scientist saying that drinking milk excessively could cause cancer

Yeah, The electromagnetic waves hits the cells, causing damage or disorientation to the DNA of the brain cells, which then multiply causing cancer

-shrugs- I go on what our teacher taught us petty much

I don't know if chocolate is considered beneficial in regards to medicine. Yes, it elevates serotonin levels in the brain, but at the same time, you flood the body with glucose and that causes other problems. Especially if you've got insulin-dependent diabetes. smile

That said, i'm not sure. I don't know many doctors who would prescribe Chocolate for a cure for low serotonin levels. I think there are much better drugs used in that. I could quite happily be proved wrong, however.



Proof that caffeine may prevent Parkinsons, please?

One of the prime candidates for the onset of Parkinsons is Prions, as I mentioned earlier. That's when a protein created -- PrPC -- into the prion form of PrPSC. This is irregular and doesn't fold up well, unlike PrPC. This later causes spongiform encephalopathies. The most recent studies show this is what causes BSE in cattle, or worse, variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in humans.

Reference:
Prions: Puzzling Infectious Proteins

Another point is that Parkinsons shows clear links to manganese toxicity and organophosphate pesticides. Caffeine does not reduce toxicity or help in avoiding pesticides. In fact, pesticides through surface run-off can quite easily enter water systems and could even be in the coffee that's drank.

Hugely unlikely, but it's a possibility in some places worldwide.

Reference:
Prion Disorders

Like I said mister, I'm no expert on this! However, as a future practitioner in the mental health field, chocolate does not contain enough chemicals or ingredients to boost serontonin levels that would equate to assisting a patient with an anxiety disorder for instance let alone depression. It's a slight boost, and although "choco-holics" who are apparently addicted to chocolate for its benefits can be attributed as being addicted on a purely psychological level. I mean, as a women who has a period once a month, if I don't get a huge bag of cheese crunchy chip-things going down my gullet, it just makes life appear to be that little bit more shitty. I know I don't need it to survive, and a craving is different from addiction. But I have attached a psychological meaning to this delicious cheesy snack when I am having a period. Otherwise I normally don't eat it.

Busted for foul word play again. Caffeine assists in the prevention of Parkinson's. It's not a direct cure for prevention. Links provided below:

Link One
Link Two
Link Three

If you cannot obtain the articles, I can provide the information you can acquire at your closest campus journal section - unfortunately I'm not rich enough to afford the online subscriptions to get the full article view.

Just remember, some diseases may be gained through the environment, but they may be genetic. The fact that my mother has rheumatoid arthritis can be bothersome as it increases my proneness to acquire the disease. Yet, I may go through life never acquiring the disease, but my children might. The next door neighbour who has no history of any form of arthritis in her family may develop the disease due to her exposure to the environment. It's vital to have a holistic approach when it comes to diagnosis.

I've never heard of such a thing Vyce, in particular with Vitamin D and Calcium. I understand that it applies to Vitamin A because the body naturally harvests the key chemicals that are contained within the vitamin itself and, especially if you have too much Vitamin A whilst pregnant, you may actually end up causing blindness in the child. Otherwise, from my general understanding and education on vitamins, what you don't use (with exceptions), you generally excrete.

I'm not either, but i'm learning to get there. And for 'no expert', you've got some pretty m4d sk1llz for human neurology and biochemistry.



That was what I was getting at. Chocolate is basically a pick-me-up for people who might just be feeling a little blue or upset from recent events. Like, say, maybe ending a relationship or having been watching a really sad, romantic film.

Chocolate does not have actual medical uses - ie, prescription.



3nodding Correct conclusion to draw so far, yes.



I couldn't see the first or third articles; not sure why that is. The second one I read, and it gave me a nice little snippet which i'd like to point out in the conclusion area:

"These findings suggest an inverse association between coffee drinking and PD; however, this association does not imply that coffee has a direct protective effect against PD." (Benedetti et al, 2000)

It might have been proved in one of the other articles, so i'm currently looking through ones that i've access to on my own university's Athens.



I can't make any points here, as i'm very unknowledged on RA in general. I'll do a little reading up on it and hit back at you sometime, Fluff. wink Yes, it will increase the proneness because your blood may carry a rheumatoid factor, I believe, but otherwise I can't answer.

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As for Vyce's point there, i'll talk to one of my dorm-friends. She's a student covering Human Dietetics and Nutrition, so she'll be able to help me there.

I think the nearest I could assume would be, as Fluff mentioned, what isn't used is excreted. However, if you overload your body with milk, you're drowning your system with Vit. D, Ca, and all those other nutrients in milk. Hence, the body is fooled into believing that situation has changed and it no longer needs to store the nutrients because you're going to routinely ingest them.

Therefore, you're going to release the stored ones into the blood, and they'll filter out through the urine. Which is bad. sad

It works the same way with food: by eating three meals a day, your body won't store so much food as body fat, because you're taking enough in during the day that storage is unnecessary and wasteful.

All depends on what waves are emitted from the devices, according to spectrometer graphs. The shorter the wavelength, the further it penetrates into the body. Below x-rays, I believe, all waves can pierce through bone and strike DNA in the nucleus of the cells - hence cancer.

That said, all waves - I think - can pierce through skin with the exception of the longest wavelength one. My physics knowledge sucks, so I can't name it. Radio waves, is it? Anything below that can pierce skin, and theoretically harm the cell surface proteins. That, however, is quite unlikely to cause any cancer due to no DNA mutations or damages.

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Pure advanced intellectualism? We need a little of that every now and then. Besides; it's quite hard to add perviness to a topic about cancer. smile

And good luck to you in that, Fluff. 3nodding Therapy alters brain function, you say? As in what, CAT scans, MRI, etcetera? Or psychological therapy? surprised



Hehe, not a problem at all. Either way, the point I was trying to make was the emboldened part - that there is no DEFINITE proof of caffeine being a protective chemical against PD, only that there are possible links that need to be followed up. Perhaps, for example, the chemical structure of caffeine and the way the molecule is set up - ring structure, maybe? - is what might have the link to prevention?



Please excuse me here, but i'm really unsure whether I agree. I don't know how to explain it, but i'll try as I go along.

RA is a peculiar disease - yes. However, the triggering idea is pretty unreliable as there's no proof of it. It might be because those life-altering experiences lower the body's natural resistance due to stress, but until someone shows me direct proof rather than suggested proof, i'm not going to believe that these minor traumas are the cause of RA.

More likely, old age, lacking vitamin intake, positive Rheumatoid factor, and weakened immune system are the direct causes.



Hehe. It does sound slightly silly, but that's just from a scientific perspective. I don't know - I stand by my above prediction, but it does sound odd. Perhaps it wasn't an event that caused it?



Completely agreed with you.

Doesn't mean i'm going to routinely eat regular meals, though. xd Yay student living.