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
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
For some strange reason, people will vigorously deny having high blood pressure. "I'm nervous." "I fought traffic to get here!" "You wouldn't believe the stress I'm under!" or "Wait until I relax a little while and it'll come down." All are common reactions of those advised their pressures... Read more
There's little doubt remaining that omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil reduce dangerous events from heart disease (heart attack and sudden death), abnormal heart rhythms (particularly atrial fibrillation), stroke, and are an effective therapeutic agent to reduce triglycerides. In fact, fish oil is so effective that a prescription form is now... Read more
Roger practically bounced in his chair, vibrating with energy. "I haven't felt like this in years! I can work around the yard all day and still have energy left over. It must be the vitamin D!" Roger's wife rolled her eyes, though with a twinkle and a little smile. At age 84, Roger started out with pretty... Read more
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