A fascinating paradox in terms of nutrition, disease risk and survival – Bionicoldguy

Dr. Raphael Cuomo, professor at the University of California of the San Diego School of Medicine, whose work I mentioned previouslyPay my attention for a fascinating youngest newspaper he wrote. It is about the “nutritional epidemiology -risk -over -over -over -over -paradox”, for which the term “Cuomos paradox” was also shaped. There is also a good summary of the paradox in This YouTube video. In summary, there are health and nutritional recommendations to reduce the risk of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and certain types of cancer. However, the paradox is that if you already have one of these diseases, the same recommendations can be contraindicated, since you can now increase the risk of dying from the disease. An important exemples is obesity known as a risk factor. But a few additional pounds can be protective after you already have an illness.

In the newspaper there are references to other effects such as this (such as the effects of alcohol and cholesterol). Dr. Cuomo makes sure to point out that we may not yet have enough information to change health recommendations, but there is definitely more research on this fascinating paradox. Here is a link to the full text in the Journal of Nutrition.