Andrew Mente

Introducing the PURE Healthy Diet Score. Lower intake of these six healthy foods contributes to CVD globally: Study of 245,000 people in 80 countries. Article: academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva… Editorial: academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva…

@NoContextHumans I think I saw this in a looney tunes cartoon.

Bro didn’t even flinch 😂😂

@clashreport @georgegalloway Rodney Dangerfield's professor in 'Back to School'.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis: Greece has become a satellite of Israel. We have lost our independence. We are in the clutches not only of the U.S. but also of Israel.

@Tallow_Ho @jjauthor Extraordinary

Be the third donkey. 🫏😉

@LeadingReport Because he's delusional.

BREAKING: President Trump demands Fed Chair Jerome Powell immediately cut interest rates.

@brianlilley Is she related to Sue Ellen Miske, the heiress to the Oh Henry candy bar fortune ('Seinfeld' reference)?

No, police in Canada aren't threatening to arrest people over social media posts. The woman in this video, Nicole Pearen Miske, posted about Prime Minister Carney and made a threat. "'I'm coming for you, you suck twisted fuck. You will get yours!" Police must investigate threats.

@robertlufkinmd You can tell a topic is unsettled when people say it's settled.

Science is never settled. Or is it?

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder. In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book. Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing. A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens. UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain. One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off. The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.

@booyah2yah @michael_hoerger Society HAS moved on. That's the reality.

@ToYourHealth101 @michael_hoerger “Society” has “moved on” = “I have limited capacity to deal with difficult, complex, and scary issues and prefer instead not to think about them. When someone brings it up, I dismiss them to help block it out of my mind”.

As of today, the COVID-19 pandemic is now longer than WWII.

Agreed, and also add 24-hour news media to the list.

@tinfoilHT @DrNeilStone Actually it's highly statistically significant (chi square = 840, P<0.0000001).

@DrNeilStone Against a population of 330,000,000, 900 and 22 are the same statistical value.

Hard to tell if measles vaccine works

Eating ice-cream linked to lower diabetes risk. Could be TRUE: - Dairy fat's healthy properties (milk-fat-globule membrane remaining intact in ice cream, which may have protective metabolic effects). - Lower glycemic index (ice cream has a lower GI because its high fat and protein content slows the absorption of sugar). Or could be FALSE: - Reverse causation (people who are already at high risk for diabetes, e.g. those who are overweight or have high blood sugar, are often told by MDs to avoid sweets like ice cream, whereas healthy individuals continue to eat it). - "Healthy user" bias (participants who eat ice cream in moderation might also maintain other healthy habits like regular exercise). This study highlights significant challenges in nutritional research, often stemming from potential statistical illusions rather than direct health benefits. On the other hand, a real connection can't be ruled out.

@WatcherGuru He causes the inflation fire and then wants the fed to throw gasoline on it.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says Fed Chair Jerome Powell should lower interest rates 'immediately' without waiting for the next FOMC meeting.

@iamAtheistGirl Overgeneralization, factually inaccurate, ageist, misdirected blame, and emotionally over the top.

i am so angry with the fact that people who have had 80 years of life are destroying a planet for people who have their entire lives ahead of them 😮‍💨

Both genetics and lifestyle are determinents of p-tau217. Diet is believed to play an important role, but direct clinical data specifically isolating diet's impact on this biomarker is still developing.

Foods can easily serve as markers of broader lifestyle, socioeconomic, or health-related factors rather than being a direct cause of disease. Other foods consumed with eggs and cooking methods are also considerations. A 60% increased risk of diabetes from eating a single egg daily (implausible effect seemingly) strongly points to these possible alternative explanations here.

@Paulintoronto47 @TorontoStar @DavidColetto Municipal taxes have soared during her watch. She is bad for both renters and property owners. 2 out of 2.

@ToYourHealth101 @TorontoStar @DavidColetto Who do you want…another crackhead mayor like Ford or a guy like Tory who couldn’t keep it in his pants? Chow is not perfect by any means but she’s a hell of a lot better than either of those two guys.

#Breaking: John Tory will not seek re-election as mayor of Toronto: sources trib.al/cqb9Xs3

@wattsupwiththat @ClimateRealists The only field in history where every data point is a win for the hypothesis.

𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴❗ Hold on—glaciers worldwide are surging at up to 100 times their normal speed, and climate experts are blaming global warming for this insane twist. But if warming melts ice, how's it making glaciers charge forward like runaway trains? These surges could unleash catastrophic floods and landslides. Is this just more alarmism, or is something bigger at play? You won't believe the details. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/01/gla…