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Medical information can get outdated quickly, and some of these articles
are a decade old. Thus, in addition to the usual cautions (this web page
is not your doctor, and has no legal obligation to provide accurate,
personalized medical advice; plus the usual
caveats about every article on this website), please notice the dates
on these articles. Chemistry, physics, and basic physiology don't
change; but explanations of diseases often do, usually in small ways but
sometimes in large ways. The best available treatments for diseases
change even more quickly, as new drugs and procedures become available
(or become discredited). In particular, the material here on heart
disease, cholesterol, and diet seems rather quaint in the light of recent
results which implicate bacterial infection (and in particular the
bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae) as the cause of atherosclerosis,
and suggest that it can be entirely cured by appropriate antibiotic treatment. But
since the articles here are not mere propaganda for the view that diet
and lifestyle are the main culprits, but contain discussions of the
evidence and reasoning for that view, they still have a place.
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