inflammation

Conventional Cholesterol Tests are Obsolete

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As many of you know, I’ve been traveling around a bit, speaking about our best-selling book “The Great Cholesterol Myth”, and one of the things I’ve been saying is that conventional cholesterol tests are obsolete, a message I repeated recently on the Dr. Oz show as well as The Doctors. And one of the questions [...]

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High Blood Pressure: The Silent Killer

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The thing about high blood pressure is that at least 25% of folks who have it don’t know they have it. It flies under the radar. No pain, no symptoms, (though it’s often been quipped that the first symptom of high blood pressure is a heart attack). About one out of three adults in the [...]

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Mediterranean Diet…The Best Diet Ever? Not So Fast!

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Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study which, according to the fawning mainstream press, proved “conclusively” that the best diet in the world was the Mediterranean diet, that it protected everyone from heart disease and stroke, and that everyone in the world should be on it. Except the study showed no [...]

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150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: Kale

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Kale has the highest ORAC rating of any vegetable on Earth! Tweet

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150 Healthiest Foods: Green Beans

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The folate (folic acid) in green beans lowers the inflammatory compound called homocysteine which is usually high in people with heart disease and Alzheimer’s. Tweet

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Chemicals in Food that Make You Fat

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For decades we’ve been told that the “formula” for weight loss is incredibly simple: eat less and exercise more. Unfortunately, that’s very far from the whole truth. We’re now learning that there are powerful influences on weight that go beyond calories and exercise. We’re at the infancy of our knowledge about obesity, and we’re not [...]

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The Five “Must Read” Nutrition Books of 2012

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This is the time of year where book and movie critics come up with their “Best of the Year” lists, so I thought it a perfect time to do my own version of same. These five books—only three of which actually came out this year—are must reading for anyone interested in health, nutrition and diet. [...]

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8 Cholesterol Myths Your Doctor Still Believes

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As some of you may know, cardiologist Stephen Sinatra and I co-authored a book which was recently released, entitled “The Great Cholesterol Myth”. The buzz on this has been amazing, largely thanks to you! Even though our interview with Dr. Oz hasn’t been shown yet (probably around Christmas), word of mouth has been sensational, and [...]

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The Two Worst Foods in the World

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Ask 10 people to name the two worst movies ever made and you’ll probably get a lot of different answers. “Ishtar”? “Waterworld”? Hard to say. Whether you’re picking movies, books, or politicians, there are so many candidates for awfulness that it’s hard to pick the top two. But when it comes to food, the choice [...]

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150 Healthiest Foods: Goji Berries

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The antioxidants in Goji berries can strengthen your immune system and protect your brain and DNA. Tweet

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Protect Your Brain with… Onions!

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A new study suggests that compounds in onions may protect the brain from additional damage linked to stroke. This is hardly the first good news about onions, which I wrote about in depth in my book, “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth”. In a number of impressive published studies, the consumption of onions (and other [...]

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Does Vitamin C Deficiency Cause Heart Disease?

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I’ve long maintained that government recommendations for minimum daily requirements for most nutrients should be ignored. Frankly, they’re idiotic and reactionary. They were developed with the idea of preventing major nutritional deficiencies in the majority of people, and as such, they represent the pinnacle of what I call “minimum wage nutrition”. Take vitamin C, the [...]

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