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December 19, 2005New Way to Weigh Competency #1RISK Reference:  The Lancet, Volume 366, Issue 9497, 5 November 2005-11 November 2005, Pages 1640-1649 This is a simple little message but the evidence is now pretty conclusive.  We sometimes use BMI to measure ourselves.  The article in Lancet just a month ago referenced below shows some very… Continue reading New Way to Weigh

December 10, 2005 How Fish Oil Works: The Method   Competency #13 FATS                              Reference:  Journal of Experimental Medicine Vol 196, #8 pp 1025-1037; Current Nutrition and Metabolic Care:  Vol 8(2), March 2005, p115-121   For those who wonder why, here is a fascinating line… Continue reading “Resolvin” to Eat More Fish

December 05, 2005 Tea for Two:  Reducing Ovarian Cancer Risk   Competency #14 SUPERFOODS                          Reference:  Archives of Internal Medicine,  Dec 12, 2005:165, 2683-2686  Author Susanna Larrson)   Ovarian Cancer is # 4 on the Hit List.  You can screen for breast cancer (#1).  You can screen… Continue reading Tea for Two: Reducing Ovarian Cancer Risk

November 21, 2005 Why is Red Meat Not Good for Us: When We Evolved from Meat Eating Hunter-Gatherers?   Competency #5 What to EAT               Reference:  “The Way to Eat” by David Katz   Red meat is full of saturated fats.  They are correlated with creating vascular disease.  Saturated fats are only… Continue reading Why is Red Meat Not Good for Us: When We Evolved from Meat Eating Hunter Gatherers?

November 14, 2005 The Price of Inactivity   Competency #4  ACTIVITY                           Reference: New England Journal of Medicine in 2002, Vol 346, p 393; Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 35: 1823. 2003   As we try to eat right, we are influenced by what we… Continue reading The Price of Inactivity

November 10, 2005 Grapefruit Juice and Medications (Viagra Catches your Attention!)  Competency #14  SUPERFOODS                     Reference:  Web MD and Grapefruit Juice   It’s getting to be grapefruit season.  I just ordered a case in a fundraiser at church.  20% of Americans drink grapefruit juice regularly.  You may have… Continue reading Grapefruit Juice and Medications

November 07, 2005 ORAC Score : Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity  Competency # 14  SUPERFOODS                     Reference: Tufts School of Nutrition   It’s summer and time to feast on fruit, and for more than just the taste.  Fruits and vegetables have abundant antioxidants in them.  These antioxidants help protect… Continue reading ORAC Score : Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity

November 02, 2005 Fructose: A Hidden Nutritional Poison  Competency #11 SUGAR and Fructose                              Reference:(New Reference: Am J Clin Nutr 2007 86: 899-906)   At my hospital, we are compiling a list of “Nutritional Competencies” for each of us to personally know.  It’s not… Continue reading Fructose: A Hidden Nutritional Poison

October 25, 2005 Turmeric The Spice of Long Life  Competency # 14 SUPERFOODS         Reference:   J Biol Chem. 2005 Feb 18;280(7):5892-901. Turmeric hit the news last week when Time Magazine put Andrew Weil on the cover.  Under his article, Living Better, Longer, Dr. Weil recommends a few ideas that haven’t hit the mainstream.  One… Continue reading Turmeric The Spice of Long Life

October 11, 2005 Living to 100  Competency #20 Lifestyles of the Long-Lived                Reference: National Geographic October 2005   This is the Nugget from National Geographic this month.   Three Populations around the world are being studied for making healthy 100-year-olds.   These three populations are unique in that they have… Continue reading Living to 100