heart disease

Reduce Your Heart Attack Risk 50% with Water

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A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that guys who drank five or more glasses of water had only a 46% chance of having a fatal heart attack, and women had only 59% risk, compared to people who drank two or less glasses of water daily. It gets even better (or worse, depending [...]

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Coffee Could Reduce Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

A nine-year study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed your daily Starbucks habit could reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes. “There have been conflicting results from previous studies regarding coffee’s effect on chronic disease risk depending on the type of disease,” said Anna Floegel, the study’s lead author. “That is why we [...]

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Low Carb Beats Low Fat for Fat Loss & More

A study that Johns Hopkins researchers presented at a recent American Heart Association meeting showed the more belly fat you lose, the better your arteries can expand, which allows more blood to flow to your heart, brain, and other areas. The six-month study divided 60 men and women into two groups that combined either a [...]

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Daily Habit Increases Heart Disease Risk By 20%

A new study in the journal Circulation found men who consumed a 12-ounce sugar-sweetened drink every day had a 20% higher risk of heart disease compared to men who didn’t drink them. The study tracked primarily Caucasian middle-aged men, all in healthcare professions, for 22 years. Every two years, these participants completed questionnaires that inquired [...]

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The Red Meat Scare: What Do We Make Of It?

Over 100 of you wrote to me to ask my opinion of the latest “Red Meat Will Kill You” scare, a study which was published March 12 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, and gleefully reported by the mainstream media and commented on by just about everyone on both sides of the red meat controversy. [...]

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It’s Not Sexy… But It Works for Weight Loss!

Mention fiber, and you might immediately recall those gigantic tubs of Metamucil your grandma stocked up on at warehouse stores. In other words: not sexy. I don’t need to remind you of fiber’s many benefits, which include reducing inflammation, triglycerides, and cholesterol. But I really get people’s attention when I say fiber is the number-one [...]

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Top 10 Fitness and Nutrition Tips for…1998?

Recently I came across some of my old columns from the 90’s and decided to sample some of them to see what I was thinking back a decade or so ago. I was especially curious to see in what areas my thinking had evolved. I fully expected to slap my hand to my forehead in [...]

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New Cholesterol Guidelines: Utter Madness

Usually I try to write these newsletter articles with a modicum of objectivity and fairness, checking my passion at the gate. But this latest travesty from the Cholesterol Establishment is simply too much to take sitting down. On Nov 11, The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued new guidelines on cholesterol. They now advise [...]

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The Trouble With Vegetarian Diets

(The following is a guest article by my friend nutritionist Kaayla Daniel, slightly abridged from the original. Dr. Daniel is an outspoken critic of soy, the author of “The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food”, and is vice-president of the Weston A. Price Foundation.) An August 26 study in the [...]

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High Blood Sugar and Memory Loss

High blood sugar puts you at risk for memory loss and cognitive problems, according to a new study out of Japan. In this study, 1017 people in Japan, all under the age of 60, were given an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). In a glucose tolerance test, the person is given a fixed amount of [...]

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What the Heck is Coenzyme Q10 Anyway?

Coenzyme Q10 just might be the most important energy nutrient you’ve never heard of. It’s not a vitamin and not a mineral, but it’s found in every cell in your body. It was first discovered in 1957 by two different researchers working in completely different parts of the world—Frederick Crane, PhD, of Wisconsin, who isolated [...]

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Too Much Sugar Increases Risk for Heart Disease

Adults who consume high levels of sugar have significantly elevated levels of several risk factors for heart disease, according to a new study by a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in Japan. The study results suggest that U.S. dietary guidelines for sugar may be lax and should be reconsidered, the [...]

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