Eat your veg . . . and other stories

Eat more vegetablesThe five-a-day slogan encouraging people to eat vegetables originated in California in 1988 in acollaboration between the state health department and the agriculture and supermarket industries. Despite the whiff of commercial bias, there’s not much doubt that a diet rich in vegetables is healthy. Two other good reasons to shift to a plant based diet are the dubious ethics of using sentient creatures as machines for converting animal feed into meat, milk, and eggs, and the fact that production of meat and dairy foods makes a substantial contribution to climate change (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/earth-day-climate-change-meat-vegan.html).Acute nutritional neuropathyA retrospective analysis of patients presenting with acute nutritional deficiency neuropathy reports that the clinical spectrum includes pure sensory neuropathy, motor axonal neuropathy, and mixed polyneuropathy. Specific micronutrient deficiencies do not predict the type of neuropathy. The commonest underlying causes are alcohol abuse, anorexia, and bariatric surgery. Prognosis is poor, with slow recovery of independent…
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