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February 27, 2007 Napping!  Stress Reduction Redux:  Reduce Your Risk of a Heart Attack 30% Competency # 20 Culture – Lifestyles of the Long-Lived                      Reference: Archives of Internal Medicine, Feb 11, 2007   Winston Churchill once said, “Take off all your clothes, slip between the sheets and… Continue reading Napping! Stress Reduction Redux: Reduce Your Risk of a Heart Attack 30%

February 22, 2007 Evidence-Based Food for the Soul: It’s a Great Time to Contemplate Wellness in the Larger Sphere   Competency # 21 Meditate; #22 Friends; #24 Contribute. Reference:The How of Happiness by Sonja Luybomirsky   Ok, this isn’t an article on food and nutrition. But it is about how to keep us well. As we are in the… Continue reading Evidence Based Food for the Soul

February 06, 2007 Is there a special role for Omega-3 Fats from Walnuts and Flax Seed – ALA? Competency # 13   Fats.               Reference: Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85:385-91 Zhao and Etherton at Penn State   Yes.  Ok, you can stop here.  Or, you can understand an interesting study just published in the… Continue reading Is there a special role for Omega-3 Fats from Walnuts and Flax Seed – ALA?

February 02, 2007 Niacin: An Unheralded Secret.   Competency # 15 Vitamins                          Reference: Med Hypotheses. 2007; 69 (1):90-4 There has been a flood of news recently about the fats in our blood and how we have to alter them.  In part, those stories are driven… Continue reading Niacin: An Unheralded Secret

January 16, 2007 Greedy Guts:  How the Bugs in Your Guts Might Just Make You Fatter   Competency # 1 Risk                               Reference: Nature 2006 Dec p1022-1023   “I don’t get it, I get fat when I eat the exact same food as my friends,… Continue reading Greedy Guts: How the Bugs in Your Guts Might Just Make You Fatter

January 10, 2007 Folate:  A Vitamin with Unintended Consequenses – Frail Elderly May Get Demented Faster   Competency # 17 Vitamins                      Reference: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 85, No. 1, 193-200, January 2007  Morris et al   This is a serious story of unintended consequences.  In an… Continue reading Folate: A Vitamin with Unintended Consequences – Frail Elderly May Get Demented Faster

January 02, 2007 Metabolic Syndrome:  Understanding the Fire Within #1: The Stefansson/Anderson Story   Competency # 20 Culture Lifestyles of the long-lived          Reference:  Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes,  Published 2007   “They are the healthiest people on earth.  They eat nothing but blubber and fish and have no diseases,” said Danish explorers Stefansson and… Continue reading The Stefansson/Anderson Story

December 27, 2006 Dr. W’s “Llama Chow” or Beneficial Motivator Cereal   Purchase and keep in dry storage a 50:50 mix of cracked wheat and steel cut oats.    You can use a pure cracked wheat, a pure steel cut oats, or any other WHOLE grain.  Spelt is delicious and chewy (takes a little longer to… Continue reading Dr. W’s “Llama Chow” or Beneficial Motivator Cereal

December 20, 2006 Trans Fats:  The Nurses Study Slams the Door!   Competency # 13 Fats                                    Reference: American Heart Association Annual Meeting, Report on the Harvard Nurse’s Study, Released Dec 6th, 2006   We all love trans fats.  That wonderful… Continue reading Trans Fats: The Nurses Study Slams the Door!

December 06, 2006 Vitamin D and the Shortest Day of the Year:  MS the Worst Prison Sentence lack of Vit D Provides   Competency # 17  Vitamin D                        Reference: Journal of the American Medical Association,Dec 20th 2006   Here it is again.  The Harvard Nurses Study has… Continue reading Vitamin D and the Shortest Day of the Year: MS the Worst Prison Sentence lack of Vit D Provides