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July 03, 2012 Stand Your Ground!   Reference:  American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study II, Marketplace Money, Saturday June 29th,   “It’s indoor work with no heavy lifting.”  Nice joke.   Especially when it’s 93 degrees outside and outdoor work looks awful.  So, we all sit at desks.  All-day long.   We get up to go to the water… Continue reading Stand Your Ground!

June 25, 2012 Rheumatoid Arthritis and Obesity  Reference:  Crowson et at Arthritis Care   In the last 30 years rheumatoid arthritis has increased by 9 people per 100,000,  an increase from 21/100,000/year to 30 cases/100,000/year now.   Three-quarters of its victims are women, though men get it too.  To date, our treatments have not always been very effective… Continue reading Rheumatoid Arthritis and Obesity

June 18, 2012 Am I Overweight?  What does My Leptin Say?   Reference:  PLOS, April 2 Nirav Shah and Eric Braverman   The BMI, or body mass index, is the common method of telling us if we are overweight or normal weight.  Unfortunately, it ends up causing a lot of confusion because we haven’t been able to sort out… Continue reading Am I Overweight? What does My Leptin Say?

June 11, 2012 Calcium and Heart Disease Risk   Reference:  Rohrmann, Heart, May 23, 2012 ,  BMJ Heart,   Finally, we are beginning to debunk the calcium myth!  We have been so simplistic, it’s just painful to watch.  Our bones are white, calcium carbonate is white, ergo: calcium must be good for you.  If you eat it, it… Continue reading Calcium and Heart Disease Risk

May 22, 2012 Who is Compensating the Food Guidelines Committee?   Reference:  Nutrition Action, Sept 2004 Volume 31   There is a lot of interest going on right now about obesity in America.  How did we all get so fat?   We have skyrocketing rates of obesity that is driving up health care costs, creating huge personal torment and… Continue reading Who is Compensating the Food Guidelines Committee?

May 21, 2012 Why Plants Protect Your From Heart Attack   Reference: Esselstyn, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: see color figures in book.   Blood vessels are dumb little creatures.  They can only do a few things. They can relax (that’s good – lower blood pressure), they can constrict, (That’s bad – high blood pressure) or they can… Continue reading Why Plants Protect Your From Heart Attack

May 06, 2012 Primer on Reversing Heart Disease I Is Olive Oil a Safe Oil?  Yes or NO!   Reference:  Esselstyn, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (2007) and,Vogel and Correti Jr of Amer College of Cardiology, 2000   It has been a sacred tenet of “healthy living” proponents that we should eat a Mediterranean diet instead of a… Continue reading Is Olive Oil a Safe Oil? Yes or NO!

April 22, 2012 White Rice is White Poison and Sets the Insulin Trap   Reference:  Qi Sun, British Medical Journal, March 15th, 2012   Oh dear, oh, dear. White rice is almost as sacred as white flour.  And for half the world, it really is.   We have a worldwide, runaway epidemic of diabetes.   In every society, folks are getting… Continue reading White Rice is White Poison and Sets the Insulin Trap

March 29, 2012 Viscosity: The Real Cause of Vascular Disease   Reference:  Sloop: Med Hypothesis Did you ever wonder just why we get plugged arteries in our heart, neck, aorta, and legs, but not in our arms or our brains?  When you ponder that thought long enough you end up realizing that we get artery disease… Continue reading Viscosity: The Real Cause of Vascular Disease

March 26, 2012 Osteoarthritis and Chicken Bones   Reference:  Multiple:  See hyperlinks. Animals,   You thought that osteoarthritis is just “old age wear and tear”.  Right?  That’s what we have all been taught.  Your finger joints get knobby, your neck gets stiff, your knees ache, your hip gets sore and you see your doctor.  You get told, “You’re… Continue reading Osteoarthritis and Chicken Bones