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April 04, 2008 Vitamin D: Recent Updates on how to dose deficiency!   Competency # 15  Vital Vitamins                             Reference: AJCN, March 2008; Circulation, January 2008; Arterioscl.Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008;28: published online before April 16 I have to just share a compendium.    There have been… Continue reading Vitamin D: Recent Updates on how to dose deficiency!

March 27, 2008 Cultivating Optimism:  Your Best Possible Self   Competency # 25 Community                    Reference: Sonya Lyubomirsky, “The How of Happiness” Published 2008   Two weeks in a row on happiness?  It’s that time of year.   And I’ve just been fascinated with the intellectual integrity of this book.  It’s… Continue reading Cultivating Optimism: Your Best Possible Self

February 27, 2008 Metabolic Syndrome # 5  Here Comes the Proof:  It’s the Carbs!   Competency # 20 Lifestyles of the Long-lived Reference:       Reference:  Am J Clin Nutrition.  Feb, 2008:87:339 Halton and Hu From the Harvard School of Public Health and the Nurses’ Health Study   Well, we’ve set the table.  Insulin is the prime enemy in… Continue reading Metabolic Syndrome # 5 Here Comes the Proof: It’s the Carbs!

February 15, 2008 Eating Below the Insulin Line:  Strategies for a safer diet   Competency # 20 Lifestyles of the Long-lived                    Reference:  Dietary Strategies – A state of the Art Paper, American Journal of Cardiology, Jan 2008  pp 249-55 O’Keefe et al Refers to:  Competency 5.  Insulin, Sugar and… Continue reading Metabolic Syndrome IV: Eating Below the Insulin Line

February 06, 2008 Metabolic Syndrome # 6:  AGEs and Fructose Link   Competency # 20 lifestyles of the Long-lived Reference: Miller Curr Opin Gastroenterol 2008 Mar;24(2):2004-9 Dietary fructose and the metabolic syndrome; Jandeleit-Dahm Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2008 Mar: 35(3):329-3Date:  2/08   AGEs and AGEs ago we wrote an article with that “pun” about AGEs.  Advanced Glycation Endproducts are an… Continue reading Metabolic Syndrome VI: Fructose and AGEs

January 30, 2008 Metabolic Syndrome # 2: Understanding the Fire Within.  “The Philosophy of Phat” Competency # 20 Culture Lifestyles of the long-lived.           Reference:  Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes,  Published 2007   “You are overweight.  Ergo, you eat too much.”  Pretty simple, isn’t it?  Except that it’s wrong.  We have lived by… Continue reading Metabolic Syndrome II:The Phalacious Philosophy of Phat

January 28, 2008 Metabolic Syndrome # 3 The “Pseudo – Science” That Got it all Started   Competency # 20 Lifestyles of the Long-Lived               Reference: Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, 2007   Here is how it all got started.   The names are Ancel Keys and Jeremiah Stamler.  Keys was the alpha… Continue reading Metabolic Syndrome III: The Mistake that got it all Started

January 08, 2008 The Disease Called Winter: Risk of Heart Disease and Vitamin D   Competency # 15  Vitamin D          Reference: Circulation 2008: 111 Wanget al from Mass General and Framingham Study   Winter is dark and cold.  We bravely face it here in Wisconsin, making the best we can do with the state we… Continue reading The Disease Called Winter

December 27, 2007 Keeping Your Brain Sharp – Diabetes is a Close Cousin to Alzheimer’s!  Reference: Online Journal FASEB, published August 24, William Klein, reported in Scientific American,  http://www.northwestern.edu/neurobiology/faculty/klein.html Date:  12/07   Diabetes is like Alzheimer’s!  Wow!  I’ve not heard that before.  We have known for a while that the rate of diabetes is climbing at a terrible pace in… Continue reading Keeping Your Brain Sharp – Diabetes is a Close Cousin to Alzheimer’s!

December 20, 2007 Nutragenetics   Competency # 15 Vitamins and Supplements                              Reference: Scientific American, Dec 2007  Nutragenetics   It just isn’t there yet!  Can’t you imagine it?  Be a CSI and swab your cheek.  Pop it in an envelope and mail it off to… Continue reading Nutragenetics 2007