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June 08, 2008 Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attack 50%  Playing Outdoors!   Summer Starts Today Competency #  17: Vitamin D – SuperVitamin Reference: Archives of Internal Medicine, June 9 th 2008 Giovannucci et at from the Harvard School of Public Health Date:  6/08   Another blockbuster study was published this last week!  From the Harvard Professional Men’s Health Study prospectively following… Continue reading Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attack 50% Playing Outdoors!

June 04, 2008 What are the Benefits? The Minuet of Mighty Minerals Concludes with Magnesium Competency # 16: Mighty Minerals                 Reference: Web Link for the “Traditional” Poo-Poo to the Alkaline Diet. https://www.brighamandwomens.org/healtheweightforwomen/special_topics/intelihealth0506.aspx   Here is where we may be getting a little bit ahead of the system.  There are NO good studies… Continue reading Alkali Diet Part IV: Magnesium

May 28, 2008 Vitamin D3 is Safe in Kids!  We can extend our recommendation   Competency # 15 Vitamins                   Reference: Barclay and Vega, J Clin Endo and Meta May 2008   It’s official.  It’s safe to give kids down to age 10 2,000 Units of a day of Vitamin D. … Continue reading Vitamin D3 is Safe in Kids!

May 28, 2008 The Alkali Diet Part II:  The Minuet of Minerals   Competency # 16 Minerals                            Reference: : First International Symposia on the Alkaline Diet, Feb 2008, Journal of Nutrition, Arnett, T, J. Nutr. 138: 415S–418S, 2008.   Last week we learned that fruits and vegetables… Continue reading Alkali Diet: Part II – The Minuet of Minerals

May 26, 2008The Alkaline Diet:  Part I.  The Molecular Minuet of Mighty Minerals Competency # 16 Minerals Reference: James Dowd and Diane Stafford in “The Vitamin D Cure”  Published 2008 Alkali?  Ever heard of that term?  Alkali is the opposite of acid.  If you measure alkali with a pH meter, it’s anything over pH 7.0 from… Continue reading The Alkaline Diet: Part I. The Molecular Minuet of Mighty Minerals

May 08, 2008 The Best Predictor of How Well You Are 35 years Down the Road!   Competency # Competency #’s 20  “Cuisines of the Long Lived”       Reference: Journal of Behavioral Medicine Vol 20, p 1-13, 1997   At age twenty, I can make a pretty accurate guess to how well you will be in your… Continue reading The Best Predictor of How Long You Will Live: Mastery of Stress

May 06, 2008 The Alkali Diet Part III: Acid Base Balance Table   Competency # 16 Minerals Reference: James Dowd and Diane Stafford’s “The Vitamin D Cure” Published 2008 John Wiley and Sons Reference for Renal Acid Load: Remer T, Manz F.   Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH. J Am Diet Association. 1995… Continue reading Alkali Diet, Part III: The Acid Base Balance Table

April 26, 2008 Some Antioxidant Supplements are a Bust!  In fact, Dangerous!   Competency # 15 Vitamins Reference: The Cochrane Collaboration  April 16th, 2008   :   Oh dear!  Bad news on antioxidants.  The Cochrane Collaboration is just about the most authoritative summary of literature we have.  The folks in the collaboration take all the available “best” literature,… Continue reading Some Antioxidant Supplements are a Bust!

April 06, 2008 Alkali!  That’s What’s Wrong with Atkins   Competency #2: DASH, OMNI and Other Evidence Based Diets Reference: American Journal Clinical Nutrition: 87:662 Dawson-Hughes “Alkaline Diet Favors Lean Tissue Mass in Older Adults”   I got it!  We want to age gracefully and hang on to muscle mass.  It’s crucial to maintain your muscle mass to maintain long-term… Continue reading Alkali Diet: Unwrapping the Problem with Atkins Diet

April 05, 2008  Milwaukee Rules the Frozen Pizza World!   Competency # 20:  The Cuisines of the Long Lived                   Reference: Forbes Magazine, April 28th, 08 “America’s Junk Obsessed Cities”   It’s official.  We made the top ten list.  We, on average, eat more Frozen Pizza than any other city in America. … Continue reading Milwaukee Rules the Frozen Pizza World!