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July 28, 2011 Blueberries:  Super Food and Fat Cells   Competency:  Really Good Food Reference:  Science Daily, April 11, 2011 from a presentation at the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting for the American Society for Nutrition on April 10.  Michigan blueberries are in!  And I can’t help but note this research news that came across the wires a… Continue reading Blueberries: Super Food and Fat Cells

July 21, 2011 The Cure for Alcoholism by Roy Eskapa – A Book Review   Competency:  Addiction Control Date:  July 20, 2011   Cure for Alcoholism!  My goodness.  Either this is a pure hoax or a huge advance, but it most certainly is controversial.  Where on earth does this idea come from?  From what I know only 15%… Continue reading A Cure for Alcoholism

July 11, 2011 Melanocortin System and Obesity   Reference:  Biochem J  2010 May 27;428(3):305-24  and Eur J Pharmacol Jun 2011 June 11;660(1)1;181-7 Competency:  Weight Loss and Weight Control   You can’t just dive in and lose weight?  Having trouble with being a little overweight?  It seems so simple.  Eat less and exercise more!   Well, not so easy.  Which… Continue reading Melanocortin System and Obesity

July 07, 2011 Vitamin D and Diabetes, A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial Shows the IOM was too Cautious  Reference: Endo Meta Clin N A, AJCN July 2011 Author Joanna Mitri from Harvard School of Public Health Competency:  Vitamin D  Yeah!  A Randomized placebo-controlled trial that unequivocally shows that Vitamin D works with diabetes in improving pancreatic function.  Dr. Mitri… Continue reading Vitamin D and Diabetes, A Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial Shows the IOM was too Cautious

June 23, 2011 Vitamin D Guidelines from the Endocrine Society!  Sanity at LAST  Competency:  Vitamin D Date:  6/20/2011 Reference:  Endocrine Society Guidelines   At last, at last!  We have guidelines that make physiological sense.  Thank goodness.  And the language is a masterfully written document to match with the recent timid guidelines put out the Institute of Medicine,… Continue reading Vitamin D Guidelines from the Endocrine Society! Sanity at LAST

June 21, 2011 All Things in Moderation is the Key to Getting Fat   Reference:  Mozaffarian, NEJM, June 24, 2011 Competency:  Weight Control   Haven’t you heard that all your life?  Everything in moderation!  Another version is, “A calorie is a calorie is a calorie.”  Simple physics!  Turns out both are wrong.  This is the key to the vast… Continue reading All Things in Moderation is the Key to Getting Fat

June 13, 2011 Aerobic Exercise and Your Executive Brain   Reference:  American College of Sports Medicine Congress, June 10th, 2011 Denver   Use it or lose it!  Very simple.  As we age, the slope and velocity of our deterioration increases. We have a voice and control over just how much we let ourselves go.  The secret is aerobic… Continue reading Aerobic Exercise and Your Executive Brain

June 07, 2011 Cancer Cells LOVE Acid Competency: Anti Cancer LifeStyle   Reference:  Lisanti et al Kimmel Cancer Center, Jefferson Medical School,  Published online in Cell Cycle, June 1, 2011   Our bodies are constantly maintaining a very delicate balance of acid and alkali.  We keep our pHs (our acid measurement) in a very precise narrow range.  Cancer cells… Continue reading Cancer Cells LOVE Acid

June 01, 2011 Salt May Not be the Devil We Thought   Competency:  Safe Electrolytes Reference:  JAMA, May 4, 2011   This is downright confusing!  What’s a person to believe?  This study comes out and made headlines all over the place that a LOW SALT DIET RAISES YOUR RISK OF A HEART ATTACK.  Exactly opposite what we are… Continue reading Salt May Not be the Devil We Thought

May 27, 2011 The Friday Fish Fry is Toast!  Competency: Good Fats Reference:  Circulation: Heart Failure Belin et al from UCLA  May 25, 2011  Everyone should eat more fish right?  It reduces heart disease, right?  Wrong!!! Oops!  There is nuance.  If you follow 85,000 post-menopausal women for 10 years you can find some interesting data about how people… Continue reading The Friday Fish Fry is Toast!