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June 24, 2013 Dandelions in Your Salad   Reference:  NYT Sunday Edition   Do you eat salad to get good nutrition?  Sure you do.  You get romaine lettuce instead of that “worthless” iceberg lettuce.   You got an almost 30% boost in antioxidants by doing that.  If you had spinach as your salad, well, your boost was almost 500%… Continue reading Dandelion Salad

June 17, 2013 Calcium, Why You Shouldn’t Take it Anymore   Reference.  Bolland: British Medical Journal 2011   Heart attacks with Vitamin D and Calcium!  Help.  We thought those things were necessary for good health.  Just about everyone thinks they have to take calcium.  The advice is so widespread, and calcium supplementation is so ubiquitous that it’s hard… Continue reading Don’t Take Calcium!

June 10, 2013 Fasting: The Path to Optimal Health   Reference:  Brown, British Jr of Diabetes and Vascular Disease, April 2013   No food!   “Help!  I’m gonna die if I can’t get food.”  We all feel a bit of panic when we think about not eating for a meal or two.  But there remains abundant evidence that calorie… Continue reading Fasting: The Path to Optimal Health

June 02, 2013 L-Carnitine: The Controversy   Reference:  Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2013 Nature Medicine Harvard ReviewHuffington Post What is carnitine?  Easy.  It’s a taxi cab.  It’s a shuttle.  It is the chemical that binds fatty acids and escorts them into the hearts’ mitochondria.  The heart prefers to run on fatty acids so carnitine is an extremely critical ingredient. … Continue reading L-Carnitine: The Controversy

May 27, 2013 Magnesium May be Just as Important as Calcium in Kids’ Bone  Reference:  Steven Abrams, Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2013   Magnesium?  Who ever heard of magnesium?   What on earth?  Well, considering earth, it is one of the most common elements on earth and it acts exactly like calcium, only smaller.   We have preached the… Continue reading Magnesium May be Just as Important as Calcium in Kids’ Bone

May 20, 2013 Vitamin K2, Intelligence and the Aging Brain  Reference:  Ferland, Advances in Nutrition 2013   Are you a bit upset with yourself when you can’t find your car keys?  Do you walk into a room and can’t remember why you went there?  Do you find yourself having to make a list to remember things or… Continue reading Vitamin K2, Intelligence and the Aging Brain

May 13, 2013 Iodine in Pregnancy and Mental Ability of Children   Reference:  Hynes, JCEM May 2013   Ok, does anyone you know want their children to have a top-notch IQ after being born?  Of course!   Our dream for our kids is that they all will get PhDs by age 5 and know at least 6 different languages… Continue reading Iodine in Pregnancy and Mental Ability of Children

May 06, 2013 Is Fat Bad for You? #2  Bacon and Saturated Fat  References: Siri-Tarino AJCN 2010Castelli Archives of Internal Med, Sinatra, The Great Cholesterol Myth   Last week we talked about cholesterol and how its use has been found to be virtually meaningless with studies showing that high cholesterol (>200) even has longer survival than low (<200). … Continue reading Is Fat Bad for You? #2 Bacon and Saturated Fat

April 29, 2013 Is Saturated Fat Bad for You? #1  Reference: F. de Meester.  World Review of Nutrition 2009   We obsess about our cholesterol levels.  Our employers check our cholesterol at work.  Our grocery stores hawk “LOW FAT” on every product we look at.  And we keep getting fatter.  Our heart disease isn’t going away, although it… Continue reading Is Saturated Fat Bad for You? #1

April 22, 2013 Vitamin K2 and Beautiful People  Reference:  Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox  By Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue   Weston Price, the Cleveland Dentist called the Charles Darwin of nutrition, traveled the world to find indigenous people who weren’t eating western food and didn’t have dental problems.  He found them.  Time and again he noted that… Continue reading Vitamin K2 and Beautiful People