Rome, October 30 (Reuters) - High heels can cause schizophrenia, pace of women who never falls from the beloved stilettos. Attention also to the effects of jet-lag: open the door to mental illness. And to prevent multiple sclerosis, better to disappear from the table or bacon sausage: pork would cause the disease. These are just some of the most bizarre medical theories passed in review by British newspaper 'Daily Mail', which warns that some seem absurd, but sometimes are based on proven scientific evidence. Well, Jarl Flensmark University of Malmo (Sweden), vows to have evidence that the first cases of schizophrenia have appeared just when they were invented the shoes 'dizzying': not the day before yesterday, but a thousand years ago.
The first shoes with heels are in fact appeared in Mesopotamia, the same area in which they were observed the first psychiatric patients. In England, from 700 onwards, women have discovered the charm of high shoes and hand in hand, there has been an unexplained rise in cases of schizophrenia. Same thing in North America, while among the natives, who use only footwear moccasin, mental illness if they have not seen many. But here's the scientific explanation: when we walk 'plant on the ground', the movements of the feet stimulate the receptors in our end by increasing the activity of brain cells.
'lift' the heel, the receptors are stimulated less and this causes a change in the domestic production of dopamine, a substance known to psychiatrists to play a key role in the onset of schizophrenia. At the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School in Israel, some experts have verified that the changes in melatonin secretion, typical of the time zone change related to long trips abroad, are the basis of many diseases of the psyche, such as anxiety, depression and social phobias. A heavy jet-lag, therefore, can only facilitate the onset of symptoms varied. Hoaxes or reality, then? May prefer to opt for the first dog owners, 'accused' by a team of experts from the University of Monaco di aumentare il rischio di tumore al seno nelle loro padrone.
Sembra che la stretta vicinanza con un compagno a quattro zampe amplifichi di 29 volte il pericolo di malattia, come è stato confermato da uno studio norvegese su oltre 14mila cani: quasi il 54% degli animali di sesso femminile era affetto da cancro della mammella. Essendo presente sia nei canidi che negli umani un virus, l'Mmtv, che aumenta il rischio di tumore in entrambe le specie, la conclusione è che il fedele amico a quattro zampe potrebbe infettare anche le donne. Liberi di non crederci, anche se i ricercatori tedeschi hanno rilevato che il 78% delle malate di tumore al seno ha avuto contatti stretti con un cane prima della diagnosi.
Discorso a parte per i vermi intestinali che, in addition to the adverse effects caused to those who 'hosts', however, seem able to protect dall'aterosclerosi: Israeli scientists have been able to demonstrate that these small organisms that cause infections in the womb, producing anti-inflammatory substances that have a preventive effect against neurodegenerative diseases.
Bad news then for those who love the pork: chops, and binge eating tripe alla romana - according to a University of Ottawa, Canada - can increase the risk of a disease previously considered free of the mechanisms of onset-related habits food, multiple sclerosis. The high index of fat content in these foods might have an effect negative on the membranes that surround nerve fibers. This would also explain the limited number of cases in countries where pork is forbidden for religious reasons.
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