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Deciding Which Direction is Best
Conflicting "scientific studies" regarding what characterizes a healthy diet saturate our media daily. For example, it's been well established that saturated animal fat promotes chronic disease, yet due to popular (and misguided) news reports this fact...
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New Non-Statin Drugs Come at a High Price
The Good: While high cholesterol is a health problem that plagues those consuming the typical American diet, it is a condition that in most cases is easily treated and reversed. I have seen cholesterol levels drop dramatically simply by switching to...
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Coconut Oil and Magic Marketing
The Mash-up of Medical Research and Marketing We've all seen books, articles, or internet stories on the alleged "miracle" properties of coconut oil. And we've watched as coconut oil has gotten more and more dedicated shelf space at our local grocery...
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What Percentage of Americans Eat Healthy?
Life expectancy in the U.S. is listed as number 27 or 28 of the 34 OECD free-market democracies. In the video below, Dr. Michael Greger explains how the overall patterns of healthy lifestyles have declined in the last 18 years. When U.S. health trends...
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Stopping a Cold Before it Starts
An optimal diet is excellent for treating and preventing many conditions like type 2 diabetes , cardiovascular disease , hypertension , arthritis , diverticulitis , and obesity . But will diet alone keep us from getting sick during cold and flu season?...
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Sugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Deaths Worldwide
It is no news to any of us that sugary drinks are bad for our health. But how bad can they be? For some people the answer is "deadly." In fact studies indicate that one in every 100 deaths from obesity-related diseases is caused by sugary beverages. A...
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Can a Starch-Smart® diet help lower high cholesterol?
Elevated cholesterol, which is one of the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease, kills over one million people every year. That's the bad news, the good news is that a Starch-Smart® diet can lower high cholesterol just as well or perhaps...
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Starch-Smart® Diet Lowers Cholesterol
Cholesterol is an organic chemical substance resembling a waxy fat which is manufactured by our body's cells, but predominantly made in our liver. It is an essential component of cell membranes and is also important in the formation of male and female...
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Statin Drugs and Cholesterol Reduction
Heart disease has become our nation's number one killer, with coronary heart disease being the most common type of heart disease, causing more than 385,000 deaths per year. This results in a heart attack occurring within every 30-40 seconds. Having a...
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Today's Children Not Expected to Outlive Their Parents
Losing a child is every parent's worst fear. No one would argue that nurturing and protecting our children to the best of our ability should be one of our highest priorities. We make sure our children get enough sleep, do their homework, brush their...
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What Factors Influence Testosterone Levels?
Commercials promoting testosterone therapy for men are becoming increasingly popular. These commercials target men who are experiencing symptoms of muscle loss, fatigue, weight gain, depression, difficulty concentrating, low libido, elevated lipid...
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No evidence of insulin resistance in normal weight vegetarians: a case control study.
the hypothesis that vegetarian diets may diminish the risk of developing diabetes in healthy people, as well as cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome.
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A periodic diet that mimics fasting promotes multi-system regeneration, enhanced cognitive performance and healthspan.
on mice and yeast. Researchers discovered that prolonged fasting mimetics diminished cancer, aging, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in humans. An alternating cycle of prolonged fasting and nutrient-rich medium was found to increase the...
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Egg consumption and coronary artery calcification in asymptomatic men and women.
examined the diets of 23,417 Korean men and women who did not show symptoms of hypercholesterolemia and any cardiovascular disease. The body mass index (BMI) and coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of all the subjects were assessed. Researchers...
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Meat intake and mortality. A prospective study of over half a million people.
ages of 50-71 years recruited from the National Institute of Health Diet and Health Study. The total, cancer, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk hazard ratios were assessed in all the subjects. Researchers observed that high consumption of...
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Dietary patterns, meat intake, and the risk of type 2 diabetes in women.
examined the diets of 69,554 women between the ages of 38-63 years with no previous record of cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The relative risk of type 2 diabetes in each subject was also assessed. Researchers found a greater type 2...
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Association between dietary whole grain intake and risk of mortality: two large prospective studies in US men and women.
mortality records. They observed that subjects on diets rich in whole grains had lower odds of dying from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other causes. The findings of this study indicate that increased consumption of whole grains may help reduce...
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Nut and peanut butter consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in women.
83,818 women within the age bracket of 34 to 59 years and with no previous history of cancer, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The type 2 diabetes odds ratio of each of the participant in this study was also determined. Researchers observed...
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Fried-food consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease: a prospective study in 2 cohorts of US women and men.
validated food frequency questionnaires, researchers collated and analyzed data on the fried-food intake of 111,631 cardiovascular disease-, diabetes-, and cancer-free male and female subjects recruited from the Nurses' Health Study and Health...
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Plain-water intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women.
2 diabetes hazard ratio and tracked the diets and water intake of 82,902 women with no previous history of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes mellitus recruited from the Nurses' Health Study. The research team found out substituting one...
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