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October 01, 2012 Arsenic in Your Rice  Reference: Consumer Reports Nov 2012   Arsenic has become the number one heavy metal poisoning in America.  We have curious just where that arsenic is coming from.  How could our mouths be full of mercury in our fillings, and arsenic still edge out mercury as the most common heavy metal… Continue reading Arsenic in Your Rice

September 24, 2012 Want a Great Marriage? –  Learn Your Spouse’s Love Languages  Reference :  The Five Love Languages – Gary Chapman   Ever thought of how to improve your marriage?  Well, want more?  Sure!  You have to speak the right “love language”. Gary Chapman started as an anthropologist studying different cultures.  With that take on the… Continue reading Want a Great Marriage? Learn Your Spouse’s Love Language

September 16, 2012 Vitamin D and the Cure for Baldness   Reference:  Wall Street Journal, Sept 12, 2012   Ok, this gets personal so I’m interested.  What is it about baldness and Vitamin D?  Turns out quite a lot.  Mark Hausler has researched the Vitamin D receptor, which he discovered back in 1969.  He has recently published several articles on… Continue reading Vitamin D and the Cure for Baldness

September 10, 2012 Can Love Handles Kill?   Reference: European Heart Journal   A wee bit of belly fat around your belt?  Your buckle angle to the ground no longer vertical?  Hmmmm.  This could be the strongest clue you have to early mortality.  Dr. Lopez-Jimenez from the Mayo Clinic and eight other physicians have abstracted data from a major… Continue reading Can Love Handles Kill?

September 10, 2012 Lower Your Risk of Sudden Death 92% with LIFESTYLE Changes  Reference: JAMA July 6, 2011Chiuve   When you feel like you are a bit helpless and the grim reaper is going to come and get you some day anyway, you might just cheer yourself up with this article.  To me, this is what medicine… Continue reading Lower Your Risk of Sudden Death 92% with LIFESTYLE Changes

August 27, 2012 How Women Can Lose Weight and Keep it Off   Reference: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Woo Hoo!  This is big news.  It even made NPR .  And it makes sense.  Published today is a lovely study looking at how mid life women can succeed at taking weight off and keeping weight off.   Here’s… Continue reading How Women Can Lose Weight and Keep it Off

August 20, 2012 Vitamin D and Fracture Risk Reduction with 2000 IU of Vit D   Reference:  New England Journal, July 5th 2012   Lead article in the New England Journal!  That’s impressive, considering the NEJM is the de facto lead medical journal in the English language.  Dr. Bischoff-Ferrari has done a series of meta-analysis over the years… Continue reading Vitamin D and Fracture Risk Reduction with 2000 IU of Vit D

August 12, 2012 Testosterone, Weight Loss for Men?   Reference:  European Congress on Obesity   Dr. Farid Saad didn’t set out to prove that testosterone caused weight loss.  He was treating men whose testosterone was proven to be low. They had erectile dysfunction, fatigue, and lack of energy.  Their levels were low. The treatment was rather odd. They… Continue reading Testosterone, Weight Loss for Men?

July 14, 2012 Diet Drinks Confuse the Brain   Reference: Science News,  July 14th, 2012  Physiology and Behavior   Another nail in the coffin of, “A calorie is just a calorie”!   If that were the case, this study wouldn’t be true.  Our bodies are incredibly complicated organisms with all sorts of feedback loops that we mess with when we… Continue reading Diet Drinks Confuse the Brain

July 09, 2012 Good Morning Joe   References:  NEJM and Circulation   Get out of bed in the morning and have a cuppa…Joe.  Coffee is about as American as we can be.  And the questions rage back and forth about whether it is good for us or not.  Seems like the answer is beginning to congeal around the concept… Continue reading Good Morning Joe