Habits and rabbits

P 122: Dietary Habits and Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and autoimmune disease.MS is characterized by blood brain barrier breakdown, inflammation, axonal injury, degeneration of the myelin sheath and etc. A significant association between inflammation and degeneration of neurons is observed in the brain. Also active MS lesions always associated with inflammation thus inflammation is a target for treatment o...

Obesity and smoking habits.

SIR,-I have read with great interest the article by Dr. T. Khosia and Professor C. R. Lowe (2 October, p. 10) on smoking and obesity. Our results at the Institute of Directors Medical Centre (Table) do not show the same relationship. There is no convincing difference between any of the smoking classes. The figures have not been broken down into age groups, but we have previously shown that in o...

Habits and Leverage

Many stylized facts of leverage, trading, and asset prices follow from a frictionless general equilibrium model that features agents’ heterogeneity in endowments and habit preferences. Our model predicts that aggregate debt increases in good times when stock prices are high, return volatility is low, and levered agents enjoy a “consumption boom.” Our model is consistent with poorer agents borro...

Health and Muscular Habits

Eating Habits and Illness

The main target of most published research during the 1960s, the 1970s and even the 1980s was the isolated effect of each macronutrient (i.e. carbohydrates, protein or the different types of fat). During the late 1980s and early 1990s the interest shifted to micronutrients with a predominant emphasis on vitamins and antioxidants (carotenoids, tocopherols, vitamin C, selenium) (Martinez 2004). I...