heart disease

Top 10 Fitness and Nutrition Tips for…1998?

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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

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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

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(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

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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?

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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

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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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The Krill Oil vs Fish Oil Debate

Krill Oil vs. Fish Oil

For a long time I’ve fielded questions from readers about the Krill Oil vs Fish Oil debate. Krill oil comes from krill, a small crustacean that looks like a shrimp on steroids. They inhabit the cold water oceans and serve as a natural food for wild salmon. (In fact, the reason wild salmon get their [...]

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Sodium to Potassium Ratio More Important Than Sodium Alone!

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CHICAGO – A high sodium intake, especially when combined with a low potassium intake, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality, according to a report in the July 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.(1) According to background information in the article, previous trials and [...]

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How to Make Yourself Sick (in 7 easy steps)

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How to Make Yourself Sick (Slowly But Surely) The following is adapted from an article by one of my favorite healers, Dr. David Williams. Dr. Williams’ print newsletter, Alternatives, is highly recommended. If you want to clog your arteries with plaque, forget the cholesterol in your diet. It won’t make any difference. Here’s the quick [...]

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Cholesterol Lie Q & A

Dear Dr. Jonny,Following your suggestion, I just finished reading “The Great Cholesterol Lie”! What an eye-opener.But I recently read in the mainstream media about a study called the JUPITER Study that showed the benefit of statin drugs even for people…

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