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hedgehog

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2. That's why I 'm holding out hope that the actual report is more nuanced -
Thu Mar 7, 2013, 07:19 PM
Mar 2013

but the quote suggesting a low fat, low salt diet will prevent/treat MS? That'd be called quackery if Dr. Oz said it!

"“These are not diseases of bad genes alone or diseases caused by the environment, but diseases of a bad interaction between genes and the environment,” said Dr. David Hafler, the Gilbert H. Glaser Professor of Neurology, professor of immunobiology, chair of the Department of Neurology, and senior author of the Yale paper.
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Hafler is not waiting with his own patients.

“I already recommend that my patients use a low-salt, low-fat diet,” he said"

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