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May 09, 2011 How Fructose is Being Sold to You!  Hot off the Presses!   Competency:  Fructose and Sugar Metabolism Reference:  New York Times, May 4th, Advisory Board May 6th, Med Sci Sport Med.    “Sugar is getting a bad rap” reads the first line in the New York Times.  Oh dear.  How terrible!  Sugar’s reputation is being… Continue reading How Fructose is Being Sold to You! The Unsuspecting

May 09, 2011 Infants and Viral Pneumonia from RSV Reduced 85%   Competency:  Vitamin D Reference: Pediatrics.    RSV is a scary pneumonia.  It hits infants, often within a couple of weeks of delivery.  They look sick.  They wheeze.  Their chests bend in with their effort.  I have spent 33 years being petrified of these kids because there… Continue reading Infants and Viral Pneumonia from RSV Reduced 85% with Vitamin D

May 02, 2011 Being a Desk Potato is Worse than You Thought – So Do the Hokey Pokey  Reference: Med Sci Sports Exer,  Competency:  Exercise and Movement   Sitting, sedentary, and resting is what we do.   All-day long.  Knowledge workers, using our minds, testing our intellect, that’s what we are.  Warriors of the keyboards!  Dying on the… Continue reading Being a Desk Potato is Worse than You Thought

April 26, 2011 Why Rabbits Don’t Have to Do Pushups!   Competency: Vitamin D   Reference:  Amer Jr Cardiology,    Ever seen a rabbit doing aerobics?  Pumping iron?  Even seen a deer out jogging to stay in shape?  Are any squirrels doing Tai Chi?   How is it that these animals can stay in great shape without going to… Continue reading Why Rabbits Don’t Have to Do Pushups

April 12, 2011 Oxaloacetic Acid: Tricking the Grim Reaper   Reference: Open Longevity Science  What’s the best way to prolong the life of mammals? Well, the science is pretty well established. Restrict calories like mad. Cut down by 30% and you will add 20-30% to your lifespan. You can see the effect most dramatically in Madison in… Continue reading Oxaloacetic Acid: Tricking the Grim Reaper

April 04, 2011 Fish Oil and and Overweight Eskimos   Source:  Makhoul et al, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition,  March 23rd, 2011   Afraid you get too much fish oil?  I’m going to argue that you aren’t getting near enough.  At least according this recent fascinating research.  Here is the story.  Consider the Yup’ik Eskimos who are just… Continue reading Yup’ik Get Less Diabetes When they Eat MORE Fish Oil

March 26, 2011 Vitamin D is Strongly Associated with Reduction in Heart Disease Risk   March 26, 2009 Reference:  American Heart Association Meetings  March 15, 2010 Am Jr Med Sci.  Amer Jr Cardiology,  The Newsletter is back.  I have had some issues at work as to whether I owned my own intellectual property.  I do.  And I… Continue reading Vitamin D is Strongly Associated with Reduction in Heart Disease Risk

March 21, 2011 Iodine for a Nuclear World:  What’s the Skinny On Iodine?   Nuclear power plants that “melt” can spew out radioactive iodine by the ton, and generate a huge cloud of it.  With 5-7,000 cases of thyroid cancer in the Ukraine caused by the iodine from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, many are asking… Continue reading Iodine for a Nuclear World: What’s the Skinny On Iodine?

March 15, 2011 Uric Acid and Heart Attacks   Reference:  Current Opinion Rheumatology 2011;23(2):174   Uric acid and heart attacks?  What has that got to do with heart attacks?  Uric acid has been all about gout!  You have a high uric acid in your blood and you are likely going to have an aching big toe and have… Continue reading Uric Acid and Heart Attacks

February 28, 2011 Vitamin D:  It Takes MUCH MUCH MORE!   Reference:  Cedric Garland,  AntiCancer Research (approved for publication) Feb 2011  Cedrid Garland and the Creighton University Vitamin D team found several thousand volunteers in the community who agreed to take their own determined dose of Vitamin D, and to get their blood levels checked at… Continue reading Vitamin D: It Takes MUCH MUCH MORE!