Archive for January, 2009
Inflammation Overload!
Posted on 25. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Remember you heard it here first.
There now exists a formidable body of literature linking cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders. More than ten years ago I found myself lecturing my patients on the not-so- subtle connection between abdominal obesity; insulin resistance; syndrome-X and endothelial-cell dysfunction. With abdominal obesity, fat is progressively packed around internal organs until [...]
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Why I Quit Counting Cholesterol: Confessions Of A Medical Heretic
Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
–Thomas Henry Huxley
At one time or another we have all held certain beliefs that later turn out to be not true at all. Most are innocent lies like the tooth fairy or Easter bunny and ultimately no major mental paradigm [...]
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Heart Disease: It Doesn’t Have To Happen
Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?
Once in a great while new scientific information arises that revolutionizes a field of medicine.
THE FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY
In 1948 in Framingham Massachusetts, 5127 men and women were enrolled in a study that has continued on to the present day. More recently, under the direction of William Castelli, M.D. , Medical [...]
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