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    UK - Resources for help getting food during quarantine and other supermarket related problems

    Might be relevant to this thread: Our greengrocer literally has food coming out the door and piled on the pavement and across the street there's 30 people fighting over the last carrots and lettuces at M&S.
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    UK - Resources for help getting food during quarantine and other supermarket related problems

    Just a heads up for those of us who get groceries delivered, book early!, Tesco is currently booked up almost 3 weeks ahead, the earliest slot showing today is April 6th. Also don't forget you can have multiple deliveries booked in advance.
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    UK media articles about Esther Rantzen (TV journalist) self-isolating with daughter who has ME

    It is a bit odd that she was cured by CBT in 2001 then cured again by LP in 2011 whilst also discovering it was actually Coeliac all along, but now she still has ME.
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    The ‘London Patient,’ Cured of H.I.V., Reveals His Identity

    In the case of ME/CFS I can't think how it could ever be discovered if there is a resistant genotype, we can't look at people who have been exposed to ME/CFS to see if they caught it or not.
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    Type 2 diabetes influences bacterial tissue compartmentalisation in human obesity, 2020, Anhe et al

    The article was pay-walled for me but I found this one on the same topic https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/ul-bpi030620.php I believe this is the paper published https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-020-0178-9
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    Cooking with Corona - coping with power cuts

    Are you in a location where a power outage likely to occur ? I thought they were pretty uncommon, only stats I can find suggest that each year about 1/25th of the population are affected for an average outage duration of 50 minutes.
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    Trial By Error: New Biopsychosocial Study of Fatigue in HIV Patients

    I'm still waiting for them to expand into the automotive business... we've discovered that the people with most unreliable cars are the ones that spend the most time worrying about them, we propose that treating this symptom focusing will make the cars work better.
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    Independent advisory group for the full update of the Cochrane review on exercise therapy and ME/CFS (2020), led by Hilda Bastian

    I didn't recognise the name Hilda Bastian but reading her blog I think I like her :) https://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2019/02/08/consumer-contested-evidence-why-the-me-cfs-exercise-dispute-matters-so-much/...
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    CEP Guest blog: NICE depression guideline – cautious optimism?

    I had a quick look around this website for the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, seems their sole mission is to campaign against the use of psychiatric drugs, nowhere though does it say what they think psychiatrists should be doing. They rightfully point out manipulation and burying of drug...
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    Article : Ban term 'painkiller' to end obsession with drugs

    Maybe connected to the CBT brigade going on another land-grab... https://www.s4me.info/threads/guardian-chronic-pain-prescribe-mental-health-support-as-well-as-drugs-say-experts-feb-2020.13488/
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    Guardian - Chronic pain: prescribe mental health support as well as drugs, say experts (Feb 2020)

    Do we really know that, and if they are related did we rule out the dozens other changes in ones life that adverse childhood experiences might have led to before presuming the causation is psychological ?
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    NHS England chief criticises Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop products and Netflix series

    I hope Netflix is reading the reviews. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11561206/ratings
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    Systematic review of randomized controlled trials for (CFS/ME) - Do-Young Kim et al Jan 2020

    :thumbup::thumbup: Contrary to the positive outcomes in the 1990s and 2000s, more recent CBT trials have failed to show consistent benefits in patients with CFS/ME: 5 of 7 RCTs of CBT did not show significant effects... In our data, 4 of 5 RCTs with graded-exercise-related therapies presented...
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    Junk food 'should be labelled with how long you need to exercise to burn it off'

    Yes, out of curiosity a while ago I weighed out a normal sized bowl of breakfast cereal, it was well over double the supposed serving size.
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    Junk food 'should be labelled with how long you need to exercise to burn it off'

    Junk food 'should be labelled with how long you need to exercise to burn it off' Junk food snacks should be labelled with how long you need to exercise to burn it off, a review has found... The physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) food labelling shows eating 229 calories in a small bar...
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    RCPCH conference 2019 abstract: When symptoms dictate a young person’s life..., Gamper et al.

    How considerate of the current disbelieving professionals to acknowledge the traumatic impact of the previous disbelieving professionals.
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    Efficacy of Korean red ginseng (Panax ginseng) for middle-aged and moderate level of chronic fatigue patients, 2019, Sung et al

    Looks like a textbook example of p-hacking, outcomes were negative so they sliced and diced the data until they got it to spit out a significant looking value. Why on earth would it only work for people over 50. Where ?
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    MEAction: "DEMYSTIFYING THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR ME AND RELATED DISEASE"

    That is starting to look a bit like a diagnostic criteria, I take the point though that perhaps they would be better named 'diagnostic guidelines' or just 'clinical descriptions' so there isn't the implication that diagnosis is simply checking boxes. I worry about leaving diagnosis to the...
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    MEAction: "DEMYSTIFYING THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR ME AND RELATED DISEASE"

    So how would you describe the core concept the diagnosis (ME/CFS) is intended to cover ? It just seems to me unavoidable that until we find something objectively measurable it is at some point going to have to come down to a list of symptoms.
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    MEAction: "DEMYSTIFYING THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR ME AND RELATED DISEASE"

    So say you were tasked with writing a pamphlet titled "Clinicians guide to diagnosing ME/CFS" what would it contain ?
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