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RE: Cholesterol and heart disease
now to decrease your intake of cholesterol, which is found only in animal products such as cheese, poultry, sea-foods, fish, dairy, & meats. To lower your lipid level, increase your dietary fiber by choosing legumes (beans, lentils) every day, as do the...
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RE: Type 1 Diabetes Helpful Support Discussions
this in his 30's and is still in such good health (or better!) decades later. I've been completely avoiding meats, dairy, fish, eggs, etc. for 6 months, and I've noticed a significant decrease (at least 50%) in the amount of insulin (Novolog) that I...
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RE: Leaky Gut and Auto-Immune Recovery
that the best source is leafy green vegetables. Another answer is that seaweed is a good source. When you think about it the fish got from a similar source as us. Basically leafy green plants. :-) Here is a good little web page on the subject:...
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RE: Active Lifestyle Personal Challenge
goals, and they will change it as time goes on when you are ready. While I was previously going to the gym I felt like a fish out of water, not knowing what to do, or how to use the machines, or if I'm doing what I needed to to achieve my goals. Talk...
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Reverse Aging With a Plant-Based Diet
In a recent study, Dr. Dean Ornish discovered that a whole-foods, nutrient-dense, plant-based diet had increased telomerase activity that is associated with slowing down the aging of our cells. Telomerase is an enzyme that rebuilds the telomeres at the...
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Hoping for Health but Missing the Mark?
"There was a party at work, but there was next to nothing I could eat except the Oreos. At least they were vegan!" I hear this sort of reasoning every day in my practice. And I totally understand it. For years, I was a tater-tot vegetarian and thought...
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Dr. Michael Greger Reviews the Paleo Diet
found in meat including heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium as well as excessive amounts of mercury in fish. Dr. Greger questions the soundness of the Paleo diet in this two minute video, "Paleolithic Lessons." Dr. Michael Greger...
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WHO States Red/Processed Meat Linked to Cancer
Once again the media outlets have been "rocked" by news on nutrition: the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that processed meat and red meat consumption are associated with cancer. In a press release dated October 26, 2015 , the WHO stated that...
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McDougall Diet for Pregnancy and Children
Dr. John McDougall has very generously made his "Advanced Study Weekend" presentation on Pregnancy and Children available for public viewing on YouTube. The Weekend Study took place March of 2013 in Santa Rosa, California. This one hour presentation...
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Vegans Have Lower Cholesterol
Committee for Responsible Medicine: "Those who consume vegan diets have better cholesterol levels than people who eat meat, fish, dairy, and/or egg products, according to...
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Incredible Egg? or Incredible Marketing?
Scrambled, fried, hard boiled, or poached - there's a way to prepare eggs to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters. I'm sure many people have fond memories of eating bacon and eggs for breakfast with their families on weekend mornings. Eggs are heavily...
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Protein Deficiency = Calorie Deficiency
long as sufficient calories are being consumed. "More than a half-century of creative marketing by the meat, dairy, egg, and fish industries has produced fears surrounding nonexistent deficiencies ." We realize your family and friends are concerned with...
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Canned Foods May Promote Breast Cancer
at the cellular level of males as well as females. Notable canned foods include baked beans, cream of mushroom, canned fish, ham, tomatoes, tuna, sardines, and soup. While enjoying popular can...
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10 Ways to Minimize Developing Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in American women and the second leading cause of death. It's estimated that 1 in every 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Although there are many factors which contribute to cancer, Dr. Joel...
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Part IV: Do Plant-Based Diets Need Supplementing?
It's amazing how much the media and popular culture affect our health concerns . Oil in our diet is one example. For decades no one gave a thought to their fat intake. That changed in the sixties when the American Heart Association came out with...
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Use Caution with Seaweed Consumption
"Under the sea / Darling it's better / down where it's wetter." And if you're a fish or even a Little Mermaid , that's probably true. But for those of us with two legs firmly planted on land, not everything is better under the sea. Some foods from...
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Anthropologist Debunks Paleo Diet
Diet movement, says, "The starting place for optimal human diets Ares [sic] the minimally processed fresh meats, seafood, fish, fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts that were the staple of our ancestral diet." But is this really what ancient humans ate? To...
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Eating Meat Raises Estrogen at Cellular Levels
We see the evidence of over estrogenization all around us. Men and women, boys and girls in modern society are all suffering. Over estrogenization is closely related to the amount of excess weight we carry. According to the Center for Disease Control...
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Linda Carney, MD
Dr. Carney became a vegetarian at nine years of age when a new step-father entered into her life who did not eat meat. The vegetarian philosophy she was raised with included the eating of dairy products, plenty of eggs, processed foods, fake meat...
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Can a Starch-Smart® diet improve male fertility?
Many couples who have been infertile have been able to conceive a baby after switching to a whole-food, nutrient-dense, plant-based diet. In a recent Harvard Study, increasing the intake of saturated fat by just 5 percent was observed with a 38 percent...
https://www.drcarney.com/faq/men-s-health-questions/can-a-starch-smart-diet-improve-male-fertility
