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December 01, 2006 Olive Oil:  What’s the Best Kind?   Competency # 13  Fats;  #20  Culture: Lifestyles of the Long-Lived Reference: Covas, et al  Annals of Internal Medicine, Sept 5, 2006  145:(5)   We know that olive oil is good for you.  It’s the main fat in the Mediterranean Diet (MD).  Greek men, living prior to 1950, had 10%… Continue reading Olive Oil: What’s the Best Kind?

November 22, 2006 Fructose:  Evidence for Trouble with Your Liver   Competency # 11 Sugar and Fructose                    Reference: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Annual Meeting  Oct 26, 2006 Reported in:  Scientific American, Science News Nov 2006   Supersize me!  The movie already gave us this clue. … Continue reading Fructose: Evidence for Trouble with Your Liver

November 16, 2006 Tea:  Another Candidate for Weight Loss Help   Competency # 20  Cuisines of the Long Lived.         Reference: Zhong, L Urne, J Am J Clin Nutri 2006:84:551-5  (Minneapolis VA Hospital)   Tea has been touted to have all sorts of health benefits.  The British had to travel all over the world to find out… Continue reading Tea: Another Candidate for Weight Loss Help

November 09, 2006 Live to 100? What’s the Animal Evidence?   Competency # 20  Culture: Lifestyles of the Long-Lived.          Reference: Nature:  Nov 2006   The New York Times just reported this week a huge article about living longer with calorie-restricted diets.  The evidence is accumulating in multiple mammal models that a 30% reduction in… Continue reading Live to 100? What’s the Animal Evidence?

November 02, 2006 Keeping Your Brain Humming with Curry   Competency # 5  The Way to Eat                       Reference: American Journal of Epidemiology, Nov 1, 2006: Curry Consumption and Cognitive Function in the Elderly   Why is it that South Asians have 22% of the rate of Alzheimer’s we… Continue reading Keeping Your Brain Humming with Curry

October 26, 2006 The See-Food Diet: What You See is What You Eat   Competency # 9 Environment                          Reference: Painter and Wansink: International Journal of Obesity 30:5, May 2006   I see food and I eat it.  Simple as that.  The See-Food diet.  This is not… Continue reading The See-Food Diet: What You See is What You Eat

October 24, 2006 Walnuts: A Superfood!  Maybe BETTER than Olive Oil!   Competency # 14 Superfood and # 13  Fats                           Reference: American Journal of Cardiology – Oct 17, 2006   Endothelial dysfunction.  That’s the $ 40 word for what happens to your arteries when they get… Continue reading Walnuts: A Superfood! Maybe BETTER than Olive Oil!

October 21, 2006 Snacking:  The Science of Getting Fat One Chip at a Time   Reference:  Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More than We Think by Brian Wansink   This book is hilarious and way too true.  Professor Wansink has done research on how we snack and the psychology of it all.  He’s at Cornell now but started at… Continue reading Snacking: The Science of Getting Fat One Chip at a Time

October 15, 2006 How to Prevent the Flu!  NOT Vit C!  The Vitamin D Story Continues   Competency # 17: Knowing About Vit D                          Reference: Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Dec;134(6) 1129-40   This is really beating a drum again and again but now is the time.  We are… Continue reading How to Prevent the Flu! NOT Vit C! The Vitamin D Story Continues

October 06, 2006 Vitamin D Deficiency in Pregnancy.  What’s Enough?  It’s Implications to the World’s Second Most Dangerous Disease   Competency # 17.  Knowing about Vitamin D                    Reference: Am J of Clinical Nutrition, August 2006: 84, 350,  Science: 311, 1717-73) and Journal Science. 2006, Mar 24 p 1770 – 3.   This… Continue reading Vitamin D Deficiency in Pregnancy. What’s Enough? It’s Implications to the World’s Second Most Dangerous Disease