Comments on: Eating an excessive amount of spicy food might increase risk of dementia; study participants who consumed more than 50 grams of chili a day had double the risk of memory decline https://twx.atlantacounseling.com/blog/spicy-food-and-dementia/ Client-Centric Counseling and Life Coaching Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.5 By: Preston McAfee https://twx.atlantacounseling.com/blog/spicy-food-and-dementia/#comment-115403 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:25:47 +0000 https://twx.atlantacounseling.com/?p=84121#comment-115403 Medical researchers are often terrible at controlling for alternative explanations. Correlation is not causation. In this case, Chinese chili lovers are predominantly from western China and would tend to be poorer than those from eastern provinces. Nothing is more medically challenging than being poor.

This is likely yet another medical study that won’t stand up to follow-up studies.

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