Comments on: Bye bye Guinea worm

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:49:21 +0000

Hi Dr. Eades,

Eeewww on the Guinea worm. I’ll agree with you on the humanitarian Jimmy Carter. On the political ex-Presidenting, however, I’ll admit I’d like to see him admitted to a very nice guarded retirement home with no access to pens, paper, a telephone, or a computer.

Thanks for all your good work. I’m going to (gently) try to get my father to read your blog. He’s on board with us for the lipid hypothesis, but thinks carbs are the greatest thing since, well, sliced bread. I don’t know what he thinks about the Guinea worm.

Thanks again.

low carb

Maybe you should save the Guinea worm for later in his blog reading timetable.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Dr.Sinasi UMUR

Dr.Sinasi UMUR — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:07:32 +0000

Dear Dr.
I am a Turkish helmintholog. Nowadays I am writing a Zoonosis Book with medical and veterinary scientist in Turkish language. So I want to use your D. medinensis figures in the your web site. I would appreciate if you give me permission.
Sincerely Yours.

Prof.Dr. Sinasi UMUR
Ondokuz Mayıs Univ. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Parasitology
Samsun- Turkey
E mail: sumur@omu.edu.tr

Please feel free to use any of the photos you like.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:08:52 +0000

I heard that you could pick these worms up by walking bare foot on a Tahiti beach. Is this a myth or some other vile parasite?
cheers
Lynne

Hi Lynne–

It’s not these worms.� To get these you’ve got to drink the water with the infected snails.

Cheers–

MRE�

By: Victoria

Victoria — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:18:58 +0000

My confession – I had a piece of chocolate raspberry cake Saturday night – the real stuff. It was Weight Watchers (low-fat) and small, but real sugar and white flour.

Better expiate by writing a long post on parasites.

Cheers–

MRE�

By: Scott Kustes

Scott Kustes — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:14:16 +0000

That sounds even more unpleasant than the cosmic pizza grease! And Dr. E, I think it’s okay that you cheated once. I cheat now and again as well and as long as it’s the exception, not the rule, it’s nothing to get riled over (as if I really need to tell you that =).

Scott

I don’t mind cheating from time to time; it’s the particular way I did it then that annoys me.

Cheers–

MRE�

By: Bob Fritchey

Bob Fritchey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:50:30 +0000

I’m living with my parents while having a house built, so I eat most dinners and Sunday breakfasts with them. I usually just limit myself or pass altogether on anything high-carb (They probably wouldn’t change their eating habits for anything short of a hospital stay, and even then their Dr. would probably tell them to stay on a low-fat, high-carb diet).

I’d been getting ‘back on track’ after a short trip, and had been at nearly 0 carbs for most of the preceding week when we had Blueberry pancakes with real maple syrup for breakfast on Sunday. That much sugar kept me practically buzzing until 11:00 that night, and then I had to force myself to go to bed!

How long does it take your system to get ‘back on track’ after a massive sugar spike like that? Is there anything that can hasten it, like fasting entirely, or loading up on more fats and proteins?

It doesn’t take too long to get back in the pink, usually a day at most.� Whenever I indulge in a sugar blowout I fast or quickly return to my normal very low-carb diet.�

Cheers–

MRE�

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:16:06 +0000

Hmmmm…..

If the Guinea Worm were cute and cuddly, do you think Peta would be outraged by this ‘travesty’?

I think we should bring it to their attention.� Before you know it we could be back to 48 million cases per year.

Cheers–

MRE�

By: Hellistile

Hellistile — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:21:31 +0000

Cheer up Dr. Mike cause I fell face down into a pizza last night. The only redeeming value was the bacon, spinach, feta and mozzarella cheese’s and onions that were on top. Back to my world-famous paprika chicken today which I made in a slow cooker yesterday. It happens but shame on you keeping those chocolates in your house and for that long. Whenever I have a sweet craving I stock the Werther’s Original (no sugar or aspartame added) hard candies around the house and office. They do contain sugar alcohols but not enough to do any serious damage in small quantities.

But let’s face it, you’d have to be a machine to be able to resist the steady, day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute onslaught of sugar temptations.

I am a machine, I am a machine, I am a machine…�

By: Esther

Esther — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:43:59 +0000

Oh golly, my worst nightmare, parasites. I had to put a big sticky over that picture just so I could read the post without gagging. Now I just might have to go eat some chocolate to get my skin to stop crawling and twitching at the mere thought of something coming out of my foot…

Lindt 85% cocoa is pretty good if you can stand chocolate that’s just this side of bitter.

You gotta admit, though, that the Guinea worm has a fascinating history.� And I love chocolate that is almost any side of bitter.

Cheers–

MRE�

By: James Hickman

James Hickman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:06:16 +0000

That’s a hell of a post. Everything a reader could possibly want is in there and delivered in the unmistakable Eadesian fashion. (I could pick your writing out in a double-blind study anytime.) And your comment responses are almost as good — “other than that I’m pretty easy on myself”. Boy am I having a great time reading along or what? Sho is fun, sho is.

Hi James–

Thanks for the kind words about the blog. For others who are reading the answers to these comments: This James is one of my best golfing buddies. As such, he has witnessed my descent into self loathing more than once. In fact, he has even piled on.

Cheers–