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Here’s a brief summary of what happened this week in the journalasphere:

• NEJM found that composition of diet ie proportions protein, carbs, fats in diet has little effect on the amount of weight loss when dieting.
• Archives of Internal medicine released a study showing that taking up to 1300mg of calcium a day decreased risk of all types of cancer in women and colorectal cancer in men. see here.
• Study published in the journal Thorax showed that watching TV for more than two hours a day increases the risk of asthma in children under 12, it made the link that this is due to a sedentary lifestyle.
• Study in Nature suggested that Alzheimer’s could be due to reinitiating of an apoptosis cycle usually only see in the fetus after the human brain has produced more neurons then are necessary.