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Your article, regarding the glycemic index in relation to obesity and diabetes, is incomplete and misleading. Although potatoes do have a high glycemic index, systematic research on satiety shows that potatoes are one of the most satiating foods known to science. The effect persists until the next meal and beyond. This counterexample suggests that concern […]

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Sanity and dementia aren’t so much discrete states as poles of a continuum. It seems to me that slightly irrational (perhaps inappropriate is a better word) behavior would tend to make other people avoid you. And as you tend to do less well in social interactions, you would tend to avoid them. Perhaps dementia causes […]

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This article suggests a few other questions.