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The “Color Of Food” Not Food Coloring, Determines Health!

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by .

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Recently researchers reported on data from “NHANES”, a survey that monitors the daily diet of Americians, with the following shocking conclusion: Eighty per cent of Americans increase their risk for diet-related diseases by failing to eat a diet rich in colorful fruits and vegetables. Rightfully so,  America’s Phytonutrient Report, highlighted the importance of the color [...]

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Finally The FDA Finds That Supplemental Vitamins—”can be useful”

Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by .

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Earlier this month the Food And Drug Administration released a consumer advisory regarding the use of supplemental vitamins. To everyone’s surprise the advisory admitted that vitamins “can be useful” and that “there are many good reasons” to consider taking them!  As a physician that practices “preventing” medicine, I couldn’t agree more. Vitamins are and always [...]

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Green Tea: Several Cups A Day Keeps Depression Away

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by .

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Depression can be difficult to treat. Even with the most effective medications, a sixty percent response rate is considered exceptional. Worse yet for most people, continued treatment revolves around minimizing side-effects rather than aggressively addressing the circumstances that allowed the depression to develop in the first place. Even more confusing are recent clinical studies that [...]

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Forget Cheerios: Try Harvard Medical School’s Top 11 Cholesterol Lowering Foods!

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by .

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Why Not Try These Truly Functional Foods This recently released list of foods that lower cholesterol will come as no surprise to some people. What is surprising is how little it really takes to make a significant difference. For example, just 20 to 35 grams of oats per day, 2 ounces of nuts, 10 ounces [...]

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I’ll See You In Health! Stephen Colbert Rebuts Ridiculous Crestor Claim

Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by .

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OZ: THE LAND OF INFINITE MEDICAL ANSWERS (THAT DOESN’T EXIST) What does it mean when Comedy Central becomes the voice of reason in all things medical? Only that when you get to the Emerald City and pull back the curtain and discover the Wizard of Oz is really the Wizard of Biz and incapable of [...]

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Inflammation Overload!

Posted on 25. Jan, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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Why I Quit Counting Cholesterol: Confessions Of A Medical Heretic

Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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Heart Disease: It Doesn’t Have To Happen

Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by .

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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, [...]

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