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Nutrition is a controversial topic, perhaps because with only minimal effort it is possible to find seemingly credible people advocating for totally opposite messages. In the realm of public media, it is even worse.
Despite public confusion, reviewing the evidence relating nutrition to health and disease yields more clarity than most people realize.
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Exposure to specific solvents, and trichloroethylene in particular, is associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease.
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In a carefully studied group of patients who underwent brain biopsies for atypical presentations of multiple sclerosis, cortical demyelination or cortical inflammatory lesions were demonstrated in about half.
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Neurological disease affecting the non-dominant frontal lobe has been associated with a syndrome of "delusional jealousy," referred to as Othello syndrome.
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This clinical study evaluated patients with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome to determine the kind of seizures they experienced, abnormalities on EEG, and to correlate this with findings on neuroimaging (MRI).
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A small percentage of patients taking statins may develop muscle symptoms (pain and weakness) but elevated CK is rare.
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