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December 05, 2010 A Tale of Two D’s:  The Devil is in the “D”tails   Reference:  2010  Vitamin D Guidelines from the Institute of Medicine Dec 2, 2010   The new guidelines for Vitamin D from the Institute of Medicine have just been issued.  Taken objectively, they triple the level of Vit D that adults should take to 600… Continue reading A Tale of Two D’s The Devil is in the “D”tails

December 01, 2010 Topic:  Stevia: Sweet Treatment for Blood Pressure   Competency: # 5 The Way to Eat; #7 Sugar Reference:  Current Therapeutics, Hsieh MH, Chan P et al Sept 2003, 25 p 2797.   Stevia is now on the commercial market as a sweetener.  It has been blocked in America for many years by the competition who make other… Continue reading Stevia: Sweet Treatment for Blood Pressure

November 24, 2010 Getting Colds, It’s Not Just the D, it’s the E Competency:  Exercise Reference:  David Nieman Br Jr of Sports Med, Nov 2010 Want to not get a cold this winter?  I don’t.  What we call colds are probably a whole host of different viruses.  A really bad cold is probably influenza of… Continue reading Getting Colds, It’s Not Just the D, it’s the Exercise

November 11, 2010 Fructose Causes Gout in Women  Competency:  SugarReference:  JAMA Online.  To be published Nov 27, 2010   Something funny has happened to American women over the last thirty years.  We have seen an epidemic of gout in women.  This article parses that out.  The incidence has gone from 16 cases per thousand to 46.  That’s… Continue reading Fructose Causes Gout in Women

November 03, 2010 Hidden Poison: Fructose in Sugared Sodas  Reference:  LATimes, Obesity, October 2010 online from the Keck School of Medicine Competency:   Sugar High Fructose corn syrup is known to be a danger because it is so inflammatory.  It creates inflammation in our bodies.  You think of it as a sweetener and a sugar.  The chemical fructose is… Continue reading Hidden Poison: Fructose in Sugared Sodas

October 29, 2010 Fructose is Cancer Food   Reference:  Heaney, UCLA,  Cancer Res; 70(15); 6368–76, August 2 Competency: Sugars  We have increased their intake of high fructose corn syrup 10 fold in the last 40 years.  It’s been added to everything, and subconsciously we just love it.  We eat more peanut butter, because it is sweet and… Continue reading Fructose is Cancer Food

October 22, 2010 The Trouble with Wheat Part V, or “The Closer – Food Allergy Wise”  Reference: Your Hidden Food Allergies are Making You Fat, Rudy Rivera 2002 Date:  Oct 19th, 2010   Food allergies, huh!  Is that it?  Food allergies?  How on earth did they develop? Looking back at human evolution, it’s actually pretty easy to see… Continue reading The Trouble with Wheat Part V, or “The Closer – Food Allergy Wise”

October 08, 2010 The Trouble with Wheat Part IV, or “CSI Gastrointestinal Tract”   Reference: Your Hidden Food Allergies are Making You Fat, Rudy Rivera 2002 Date:  Oct 12th, 2010   Being fat may not be simply eating too much.  It may be more complicated.  To review our prior message: the premise is out there that inflammation caused by… Continue reading The Trouble with Wheat Part IV, or “CSI Gastrointestinal Tract”

October 05, 2010 The Trouble with Wheat Part III, or “How You Got Fat Silently”  Reference: Your Hidden Food Allergies are Making You Fat, Rudy Rivera 2002 Date:  Oct 5th, 2010   Our last letter was about how wheat has a protein called gliadin in it that is hard to digest (11 steps) and can sneak into your… Continue reading You Are What You Wheat

October 04, 2010 The Trouble with Wheat Part II, or “How You Got Fat Silently”  Reference: Your Hidden Food Allergies are Making You Fat, Rudy Rivera  2002 Date:  Oct 3th, 2010  Last week we learned about long latency diseases that take decades to show up.   The core problem is inflammation.  We have talked about inflammation since the… Continue reading The Trouble with Wheat Part II, or “How You Got Fat Silently”