I don’t want to upset any dairy farmers out there, but I just report news, not manufacture it. According to B. C. Melnik (et al.), “The Impact of cow’s Milk-Mediated mTORC1-Signaling in the Initiation and Progression of Prostate Cancer,” Nutrition and Metabolism, vol. 9, 2012, prostate cancer depends upon androgen receptor signalling, these being the male hormones. Milk proteins can increase mTORCI signals (which activate translations of proteins) to cancer cells. That is the short and sweet, or is it bitter, story. The more complex biochemistry, for our many hundreds of biochemistry enthusiasts is as follows:

“Prostate cancer (PCa) is dependent on androgen receptor signaling and aberrations of the PI3K-Akt-mTORC1 pathway mediating excessive and sustained growth signaling. The nutrient-sensitive kinase mTORC1 is upregulated in nearly 100% of advanced human PCas. Oncogenic mTORC1 signaling activates key subsets of mRNAs that cooperate in distinct steps of PCa initiation and progression. Epidemiological evidence points to increased dairy protein consumption as a major dietary risk factor for the development of PCa. mTORC1 is a master regulator of protein synthesis, lipid synthesis and autophagy pathways that couple nutrient sensing to cell growth and cancer.

     Here is yet another puzzling effect found in psychological science, and perhaps elsewhere; the decline effect, that the size of an effect decreases after repeated replications:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_effect

J. W. Schooler, “Metascience Could Rescue the ‘Replication Crisis,’” Nature, vol. 515, 2014, p. 9. The decline effect was originally seen in psychological research, but it has now been found to extend to drug testing, where the effectiveness of some drug diminishes over time, and even in the behaviour of non-human animals. There are many proposed explanations of the decline effect, and no doubt specific factors may be at work in different  fields of science. For example, the decline effect in the effectiveness of certain anti-psychotic drugs may be a real decline in effectiveness as people adapt to them over time. Nevertheless, it is also possible that we may be seeing here something of a generalised Heisenberg uncertainty effect, where observing the universe and measuring it, actually changes the universe: even in physics, measurements of the charge of electrons and a constant governing the decay of neutrons have exhibited the decline effect as John Horgan states:
  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-truth-well-doubt-does-the-decline-effect-mean-that-all-science-is-truthy/

     Again, the usual disclaimer for these sorts of articles, that this is not medical advise in any way, but journalistic reporting on news sources, for health problems see a qualified practitioner etc. etc. That said, there are reports in the literature that vitamin C lowers blood pressure and has benefits to the cardiovascular system, claims made since at least 1954 when Noble Prize winner biochemist Linus Pauling first began to make his claims about the health benefits of vitamin C.
  https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/big_doses_of_vitamin_c_may_lower_blood_pressure 

“Our research suggests a modest blood pressure lowering effect with vitamin C supplementation, but before we can recommend supplements as a treatment for high blood pressure, we really need more research to understand the implications of taking them,” says Edgar “Pete” R. Miller III, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in the division of general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and leader of the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Miller and his colleagues reviewed and analyzed data from 29 randomized, controlled, previously published clinical trials that reported systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure values and also compared vitamin C intake to a placebo.

     This was news that did not surprise me, for it was only a matter of time: the cell tower/cancer link, established:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-06-large-scale-study-proves-that-cell-tower-radiation-causes-cancer.html 

“The world’s biggest animal study of cell tower radiation, which was carried out by the Ramazzini Institute in Italy, has revealed the dangers of exposure to environmental levels of cell tower radiation. In the study, researchers exposed 2,448 rats to 1.8 GHz GSM radiofrequency radiation in amounts that mimicked those that cell tower antennas give off for 19 hours a day. They found that the female rats had a higher chance of developing malignant brain tumors, while all rats had a higher chance of precancerous conditions and Schwann cell hyperplasia. This study went the extra mile, allowing the rats to live until their natural death. Four fifths of human cancers occur after people have turned 60, so following the animals over an extended period enabled them to catch late-developing tumors. The researchers say that their findings are enough to call on the International Agency for Research on Cancer to take another look at the carcinogenicity of radiofrequency radiation on humans.”
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/worlds-largest-animal-study-cell-tower-radiation-confirms-cancer-link

     It seems that we here in Australia may no longer have to eagerly await the weekly addition of the latest zombie adventure coming to our TV from America, but we will have our own flesh-eating plague, soon:
  http://www.collapse.news/2018-05-11-a-flesh-eating-disease-is-spreading-in-australia.html 
  https://www.livescience.com/62321-buruli-ulcer-australia.html 
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/16/tissue-destroying-ulcer-frequently-found-in-africa-spreading-rapidly-in-australia 

“A frightening flesh-eating disease is currently making its way across Australia, and puzzled scientists and officials aren’t sure how to stop this mysterious condition from wreaking havoc. Cases of an infection known as Buruli ulcer have spiked in recent years in the country, rising 150 percent from 74 cases in 2013 to 186 in 2016. It shows no signs of slowing down; last year saw a projected 286 cases. The infection causes unsightly skin ulcers that destroy the skin and the soft tissue around it. Complicating matters is the fact that scientists aren’t sure how it is spread or how to prevent it. They know it is caused by the Mycobacterium ulcerans bacterium, which is in the same family as the microbes behind leprosy and tuberculosis – hardly a comforting thought. It creates a toxin that destroys the tissue and creates big ulcers that are typically seen on the arms and legs.

     Everything is bigger and “better” in the United States, including corruption and the waste of public money on politically correct causes:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-13-corrupt-cdc-diverted-3-million-in-taxpayer-money-to-radical-left-wing-causes-having-nothing-to-do-with-science.html 

“A Republican running for office in California’s 37th congressional district is sounding the alarm about some shocking information he recently uncovered concerning the gross misuse of taxpayer dollars by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Ron Bassilian, an information technology (IT) guru who specializes in Microsoft’s Exchange enterprise email solution software, has offered up solid proof that the CDC knowingly diverted at least $3 million in taxpayer funding to leftist groups that have nothing to do with science. Back in 2014, Representative Karen Bass, a Democratic congresswoman from California, was seen handing over a giant $3 million check to a local group known as the South Los Angeles Healthcare Organizing Project that claims to advocate for improving the health of the poor. And emblazoned on the check as the payer was none other than the CDC.

     Yes, another shooting here in  the US. It was getting near the time when one would expect the Deep State to either rollout another psy-ops, or alternatively, for some kid on Big Pharma meds, to flip a switch and go mad:
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/santa-fe-high-school-shooting-suspect-idd-as-dimitrios-pagourtzis-live-updates-today-2018-5-18/

“The suspect in a Friday’s deadly Texas high school shooting has been identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said 10 people were killed and 10 others wounded in the shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School south of Houston. The suspected shooter, who was in custody, also had explosive devices, including a molotov cocktail, that were found in the school and nearby, said Gov. Greg Abbott, who called the assault “one of the most heinous attacks that we’ve ever seen in the history of Texas schools.” Police found pressure cookers and pipe bombs around the school, one law enforcement source told CBS News.

     Dark chocolate is being increasingly seen as a healthy food in limited quantities, with beneficial effects upon the heart:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-14-eat-more-dark-chocolate-to-resolve-irregular-heartbeats.html

“A study published in the journal Heart has found that eating moderate amounts of chocolate can reduce the risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AFib), a life-threatening form of irregular heartbeat. Scientists at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, together with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Aalborg University, and the Danish Cancer Society‘s Institute of Cancer Epidemiology used data from a large-scale cohort study of men and women in Denmark for their research. “Our study adds to the accumulating evidence of the health benefits of moderate chocolate intake and highlights the importance of behavioral factors for potentially lowering the risk of arrhythmias,” added Dr. Elizabeth Mostofsky, the study’s lead author and an instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health."

     Continuing our health and fitness series, with a focus on the older citizen, chocolate has been reported to have numerous cardio-vascular benefits, but now it has been found that chocolate actually helps relieves stress and improves memory:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-19-dark-chocolate-reduces-stress-while-improving-memory.html
  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424133628.htm

“New research shows there might be health benefits to eating certain types of dark chocolate. Findings from two studies being presented today at the Experimental Biology 2018 annual meeting in San Diego show that consuming dark chocolate that has a high concentration of cacao (minimally 70% cacao, 30% organic cane sugar) has positive effects on stress levels, inflammation, mood, memory and immunity. While it is well known that cacao is a major source of flavonoids, this is the first time the effect has been studied in human subjects to determine how it can support cognitive, endocrine and cardiovascular health. Lee S. Berk, DrPH, associate dean of research affairs, School of Allied Health Professions and a researcher in psychoneuroimmunology and food science from Loma Linda University, served as principal investigator on both studies.

     I tend to have a bit of a runny nose most of the time, probably due to some allergy (perhaps living in the pollution of Melbourne). My wife Rachel found this article and sent it to me, saying that it explains why I have trouble remembering things, because like this poor woman, my brain juices must be leaking out!
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/09/womans-five-year-runny-nose-brain-fluid/  

     Well, I do not want to descend to Uncle Len levels of degeneracy, but her explanation of my behaviour cannot be right. I would say that any juice  had in my brain, let alone my body, had long ago drained away. On a slightly more sensible note about anatomy, scientists have discovered a new organ of the human body, and it is not the brain:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-10-better-cancer-diagnostic-tests-in-sight-as-scientists-discover-a-previously-unknown-organ-in-our-body.html 

     My grand pop told me to judge a man by his handshake. Men with soft effeminate hands, beware! But, now research is indicating that there is so much more to grip strength:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-24-your-handshake-may-be-a-good-indicator-of-how-healthy-your-brain-is.html

“A hand grip may be a normal, everyday thing for men and women alike but a recent study showed that the strength of a handshake can indicate a person’s brain health. Using the data of 475,397 people from the general population in the U.K., and 1,162 participants who were diagnosed with schizophrenia, researchers discovered that grip strength is connected to the performance of the visual memory and reaction time of a person. This study has been proven in two groups where one has participants over 55 years old and the other has participants younger than 55. Aside from visual memory and reaction time, tests conducted during the research also included examinations for reasoning, prospective memory and number memory.

     I noticed even as a child that wet winters brought colds and flu s, but when the summer came, the threat was much less. Some people thought that this was due to the temperature, but my guess was always based on the moisture content of the air being a more suitable environment for the germs to survive and thrive and generally lower temperatures. That view seems to be correct:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-16-science-explains-why-we-are-more-vulnerable-to-getting-sick-when-the-seasons-change.html 

“People are more vulnerable to getting sick when seasons change, especially during spring and fall, and experts may now know why. According to research, it’s not the cold air that makes people sick; rather, it’s the virus. Rhinoviruses and coronaviruses, the two main causes of the common cold, can multiply quickly when the weather is cool – but not too cold. “A lot of the viruses that cause the common cold are shown to cause outbreaks more frequently in the early to late spring and early to late fall,” explained Dr. Kittu Jindal Garg, an internal medicine specialist, in an interview with The Weather Channel. In the same way, the influenza virus multiplies and spread more easily and rapidly when the air is cold and dry. As a result, people tend to catch the flu during winter.

     Shamefully, a conspiracy, tin foil hat guy like me did not go the final step and think of this one, which just shows how limited my intellect is. Never mind. Here is Mike Adam’s depopulation hypothesis, which I reproduce because Mike is a great guy that likes to spread the word. At first, I thought that the idea that governments just want us all to die was wrong because there was the agenda of white genocide and all that. But, probably he is right, for it just makes economic sense, in the black magic world of conventional economics, for everybody, sans the super-class, to just die to keep their system going:
  http://www.collapse.news/2018-05-18-why-governments-are-pursuing-depopulation-to-save-themselves-from-financial-collapse.html

“Ever wonder why governments allow so much deadly pollution to be dumped into food, water and soils? Part of the real reason may surprise you: Governments no longer want people to live long enough to collect entitlement benefits, and allowing the contamination of everything with death-inducing substances actually saves governments money by accelerating the death of citizens. This is all covered in my video, below. Here’s a brief introduction: Three generations ago, governments wanted more people to run the factories, settle rural lands and generate economic productivity that could be siphoned off by the political elite. Over time, continued promises of entitlements such as social security, Medicare, pensions and welfare payouts caused large populations to become financial burdens to the sustainability of those same governments.

     If like me, you have diabetes and are using diet to control it, you need to be aware of your sugar intake. Not all fruits are suitable for you, some being naturally high in fructose, a form of sugar:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-10-which-fruits-are-safe-to-eat-if-youre-diabetic.html

“One study involving over 45,000 participants in the Singapore Chinese Health Study reported that certain types of fruits decreased the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, while some types increased the risk, dietary and lifestyle factors notwithstanding. The participants, aged between 45 to 74 years, and had no diabetes, cancer or cardiovascular disease upon recruitment (1993 to 1998), answered a validated food-frequency questionnaire in order to assess their fruit intake. The researchers then conducted follow-up interviews with the participants – one in 1991 to 2004, and one in 2006 to 2010 – and found that over 5,000 of the participants developed Type 2 diabetes during these follow-up periods.

     I am not aware of any interest, outside of this site about the EMP (electromagnetic pulse) issue in Australia. With the threat of a war with China fast approaching, ordinary people should be aware that EMP attacks, by exploding an atomic bomb in the atmosphere, have the capacity to knock society back to a pre-electric era, by destroying unprotected electronics, and that is a lot of the modern world: There is some discussion of this issue in the US, where, unlike Australia, the issue is being taken seriously:
  http://readynutrition.com/resources/emp-commission-warns-of-year-long-blackout-and-a-massive-death-toll_14052018/ 
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/emp-commission-warns-of-year-long-blackout-and-a-massive-death-toll_05102018

“A federal EMP commission report warns that even the smallest EMP attack on our grid system would down it for about a year, if not longer.  A year-long blackout would certainly be coupled with a massive death toll that would devastate entire populations. The so-called EMP Commission report said that this threat is very real, jeopardizes “modern civilization,” and would set back living conditions to those last seen in the 1800s. As a result of the chaos, millions would likely die, according to the report titled “Assessing the Threat from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP),” from the recently re-established Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.

     It looks like even streetlights, of a type, may kill us, in a way:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/warning-5g-tech-in-wifi-street-lamps-causing-insomnia-nosebleeds-stillbirths_05232018

“A man in the United Kingdom is warning that the 5G technology found in street lamps can cause some moderate to severe health concerns.  A few of those concerns include nosebleeds, insomnia, and the more severe stillbirths. One man has decided to speak out about a sudden spike in health problems he believes are related to LED street lamps that purportedly emit 5G radiation. In Gateshead, a town in Northern England, citizens are reporting an array of disturbing side effects including insomnia, nosebleeds, and even stillbirths. However, Mark Steele has something to say about it. According to Natural News, Steele, 58, is a local resident in Gateshead and reportedly is a member of the IEEE, an organization which describes itself as “the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.”

     I hate mobile phones too, which have captured the minds of the young and are probably going to lead to a rise in brain cancers, if not the rot of all things decent:
  http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/health/new-reports-released-into-mobile-phonecancer-link-20180203-h0t3ug

     If there really were definitive studies demonstrating a cancer link, do you think the system would do anything about it given the money involved? We live in environments full of dangerous chemicals, chemicals that suck away manhood and destroy testosterone, but the system says that is the price of modernity and consumerism. Social problems like this one is merely water off of a very large duck’s back:
   http://www.thisisinsider.com/2nd-grader-wishes-cellphones-didnt-exist-because-parents-use-so-much-2018-5

     All sorts of amazing things happen in America, the land of the diverse, such as the singing surgeon:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5754797/Plastic-surgeon-filmed-videos-dancing-singing-surgeries.html

     Here, you can watch her yourself:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZiJdU6PpE

     This is a sensitive topic for women, so let me address it as an old woman who is “fat,” or as I less brutally prefer to say, “overweight,” mainly because the arthritis in my back and knees limits the amount of exercise I can do. As well, my diet was too grain based before I moved to a basic vegan diet, so the weight stayed on. For most people, given wrong nutritional information by the Big Carbo companies, even with many so called “health foods,” over the years, the weight piles up, just like debts. This is not going to end well, as this report details:
  https://www.afp.com/en/news/2265/world-faces-staggering-obesity-challenge-study-doc-1590mi1

“In 27 years from now, almost a quarter of the global population will be obese, researchers said Wednesday, warning of the mounting medical bill. If current trends continue, 22 percent of people in the world will be obese by 2045, up from 14 percent last year, according to research presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Vienna. One in eight people, up from one in 11, will have type 2 diabetes -- a form of the disease that generally hits in adulthood as a result of being overweight. “These numbers underline the staggering challenge the world will face in the future in terms of numbers of people who are obese, or have type 2 diabetes, or both,” said researcher Alan Moses of Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk’s research and development department. “As well as the medical challenges these people will face, the costs to countries’ health systems will be enormous,” he added. In the United States, the researchers found obesity will increase from 39 percent of the population in 2017 to 55 percent in 2045, and diabetes from 14 percent to 18 percent.”

     Not just atheists, but related insect species such as liberals, have been the subject of my late night  deep mediations with a bottle of wine, regarding the hypothesis that such beings are genetic mutations, and deleterious ones at that. Until now, I have not revealed my deep, dark thoughts. But, then there is this paper: “The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: The Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load,” Evolutionary Psychological Science, December, 2017, at
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40806-017-0133-5
  https://www.vdare.com/articles/are-atheists-genetic-mutants-a-product-of-recent-evolution

“Industrialisation leads to relaxed selection and thus the accumulation of fitness-damaging genetic mutations. We argue that religion is a selected trait that would be highly sensitive to mutational load. We further argue that a specific form of religiousness was selected for in complex societies up until industrialisation based around the collective worship of moral gods. With the relaxation of selection, we predict the degeneration of this form of religion and diverse deviations from it. These deviations, however, would correlate with the same indicators because they would all be underpinned by mutational load. We test this hypothesis using two very different deviations: atheism and paranormal belief. We examine associations between these deviations and four indicators of mutational load: (1) poor general health, (2) autism, (3) fluctuating asymmetry, and (4) left-handedness. A systematic literature review combined with primary research on handedness demonstrates that atheism and/or paranormal belief is associated with all of these indicators of high mutational load.”