You've probably heard about the Generation Gap, the Income Gap, the Technology Gap, the Gender Gap, the Achievement Gap, all meant to spotlight the difference between those in-the-know, those who are not, the difference between the "haves" and the "have nots." How about the Detection Gap? Never heard of it? That's the... Read more
Harold is energetic and highly motivated. His heart scan score of 997 really threw him for a loop: his view of himself as a healthy, slender, 58-year old clearly needed some revision. (A heart scan score, or coronary calcium score, this high is in the worst 1% of men in Harold's age group and predicts a heart attack risk of between 15-25... Read more
Here's an experiment: Eliminate any food made with or containing wheat for the next four weeks and see what happens. This means no bread, pasta, crackers, cookies, breads, chips, pancakes, waffles, breading on chicken, rolls, bagels, cakes, breakfast cereal. It doesn't matter if it's whole grain, whole wheat, or white. All... Read more
Let me provide a little history first. I've always been interested in reversal of coronary heart disease. Ten years ago, I began using CT heart scans to track heart disease, since heart scans yield an easy-to-track "score." These tests could conceivably yield a useful tool to track both plaque growth, "progression,"... Read more
Vitamin D: the newest coronary risk factor? It's probably one of the most exciting health phenomena I've stumbled across in the last 10 years: I am absolutely, 100% convinced that deficiency of vitamin D is an enormously powerful risk for heart disease. What causes coronary heart disease... Read more
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