It’s the perennial diet dilemma: What diet is best for weight loss?This debate has flared for decades, fueled most recently by anecdotal, though plentiful, claims of outsized successes with low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins’ program and the South Beach Diet A new Israeli study, dubbed the Dietary Intervention Randomized... Read more
“My doctor said my cholesterol was fine . . . So why did I have a heart attack?!” Let’s face it: Using cholesterol values alone to predict whether or not heart attack is in your future can lead to failure. Yes, it works statistically in a large population. But apply it to a specific individual, and you might as well roll the... Read more
Just half a century ago, if you wanted to look at a medical textbook, you would have to go to the library and ask for special permission. The librarian would lower her glasses, look you up and down to determine whether or not you were some kind of pervert. Only then might you be granted permission to peer into the pictures of organs and naked... Read more
Low HDL cholesterol, high triglycerides, small LDL particles: the most common triad of abnormalities today behind heart disease. Along with this pattern comes high blood pressure, high blood sugar, diabetes and pre-diabetes, increased inflammation, increasingly blood clot-prone blood. This common collection that now afflicts over 50 million... Read more
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