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May 20, 2009 Coconut Oil Study #2  It Makes You Hot!   Competency # 13 Fats          Reference: Philippine Journal of Cardiology July-Sept 2003 3:97-104   I have to admit,  I have spent much of my life with an attitude against coconuts.  There is something about the texture that bothers me.  My tipping point came when… Continue reading Coconut Oil Study #2 It Makes You Hot!

May 12, 2009 The Tokelau Island Coconut Study: Saturated Fat or Food from Paradise?   Competency # 13 Fats Reference: Philippine Journal of Cardiology July-Sept 2003 3:97-104 Tokelau Island, a tiny coral atoll in the Pacific, is part of the smallest country and economy on this planet.  It is also the nation most at risk of global warming,… Continue reading The Tokolau Island Coconut Study: Saturated Fat or Food from Paradise?

May 06, 2009 Omega Fatty Acids # 4:  Nitty Gritty of Getting to Balance   Competency # 13 Fats                 Reference: Minireview, Center for Genetics, Nutr and Health, 2008   The story of how omega fats work out their magic is not completely finished.  There is contradictory evidence and a lot of… Continue reading Omega Fatty Acids # 4: Nitty Gritty of Getting to Balance

April 28, 2009 Omega Fatty Acids #3:  What’s the Proof?   Competency # 13  Fats                    Reference: Minireview, Center for Genetics, Nutr and Health, 2008   All right, we are clearly out of balance in our diets in the last 150 years.  A whole raft of new illnesses have shown… Continue reading Omega Fatty Acids #3: What’s the Proof?

April 22, 2009 Omega Fatty Acids #2:  Getting to Balance   Competency # 13  Fats           Reference: Minireview, Center for Genetics, Nutr and Health, 2008   Okay, so we can’t make our own omega fatty acids and our diet has changed dramatically in the last 150 years.  The omega-3 family used to be balanced by… Continue reading Omega Fatty Acids #2: Getting to Balance

April 20, 2009 The Savannah Principle:  Our Pleistocene Bodies in a Plasticene World   Competency # 20 Lifestyles of the Long Lived           Reference: Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S. Miller   The human species started migrating out of Africa about 70,000 years ago at which time there were about 5,000 of us… Continue reading The Savannah Principle: Our Pleistocene Bodies in a Plasticene World

April 16, 2009 Eve Knew How to Make a Really Good Meal!  Eat a tempting apple before lunch Competency # 5  The Way to Eat                         Reference: Appetite April 2009 52 p 416  Flood-Obbagy  and Barbara Rolls   Eating is a very complex process.  We know that eating… Continue reading Eat a tempting apple before lunch

April 15, 2009 Omega Fatty Acids: #1  Getting to Balance   Competency # 13  Fats                      Reference: Minireview, Center for Genetics, Nutr and Health, 2008   What on earth are omega fatty acids?  What is the difference between omega-3s and omega-6s?  Where can I get them?  Why are they… Continue reading Omega Fatty Acids: #1 Getting to Balance

April 08, 2009 Life Expectancy in America is Starting to Go Down!  Competency # 20  Lifestyles of the Long Lived.            Reference: PLOS Medicine,  April 22, 2008 Ezzati et al, Harvard School of Public Health Answering Reference:  Arch Internal Medicine: April 14th, 2008 DASH Diet and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease.   This… Continue reading Life Expectancy in America is Starting to Go Down!

March 31, 2009 Linus Pauling made a Typo: It was D, NOT C for Colds   Competency # 17  Vitamin D          Reference: Ginde et al, Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(4):384-390   We’ve spent 40 years trying to find out the proof that Vitamin C helps prevent colds.  If there is any proof, it’s thin.  Despite… Continue reading Linus Pauling made a Typo: It was D, NOT C for Colds