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Miracle Mineral Reduces Blood Pressure… and Much More

A recent meta-analysis in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that magnesium could help reduce blood pressure. Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire analyzed 22 studies that involved 1,173 people total to understand how magnesium affects blood pressure. Each of these studies supplemented anywhere from 120 mg to nearly a gram of magnesium, and [...]

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Build Muscle and Burn Fat? Choose Protein!

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found eating a low-protein diet makes your body more likely to store fat around your liver, kidneys, and other organs. You might not think any type of body fat could be good, but trust me: fat hanging around these organs is especially bad. On [...]

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Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes (Maybe Not)

A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that processed canned meat – more affectionately known as spam – could double your risk for diabetes. The study involved 2,000 Native Americans, a high-risk demographic for type 2 diabetes. Statistics show, in fact, that almost one in two Native Americans will have diabetes [...]

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Are You Eating Candy Disguised as Breakfast?

A British study looked at popular breakfast cereals and concluded most of them were so loaded with sugar, they belong in the candy aisle. Of the 50 cereals the study examined, 32 were high in sugar. That included 12 of the 14 cereals aimed at kids. Before you dismiss this as an irrelevant study because [...]

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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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Supplements Lousy for Fat Loss

Newsflash: there’s no magic bullet for fat loss. (But you already knew that.) That’s what Melinda Manore concluded after examining America’s $2.4 billion weight-loss supplement industry. Her results appear in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. Manore, a professor of nutrition and exercise sciences at Oregon State University, began this study by [...]

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5 Simple Rules for Eating at Restaurants

A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior concludes you can eat out and still burn fat. In this study, 35 healthy middle-aged women participated in a six-week program called Mindful Restaurant Eating, which teaches people how to eat out healthfully. Now, keep in mind the goal of Mindful Restaurant Eating was [...]

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Obscure Nutrient Protects Against Heart Disease

Next time you serve a rotisserie chicken or turkey, don’t pass up the dark meat. It could protect you against heart disease. A recent study published in the European Journal of Nutrition found that higher levels of taurine in women significantly lowered coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in women with high cholesterol. These women with [...]

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People With Low DHA Have Smaller Brains

A new study in the journal Neurology found low levels of omega-3 fatty acids can age your brain faster as well as lower your memory and thinking abilities. The study involved 1,575 people with an average age of 67, all of whom were healthy and free of dementia. Researchers used several measures to test brain [...]

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Take a Vacation From Your Low-Carb Diet

Can you take a five-day “vacation” from your low-carb diet every week and still burn fat? A new study suggests that possibility. Researchers here found women who cut carbs for just two days each week lost more weight than women who stuck with a permanent calorie-restricted diet. In other words, for five days every week, [...]

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Fructose Vindicated for Obesity Epidemic?

Are we unfairly blaming fructose for the obesity epidemic? That’s what researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital suggested in the Annals of Internal Medicine when they reviewed over 40 published fructose studies. In 31 of these studies, people ate the same number of calories as either pure fructose or non-fructose sugar. The fructose group did not [...]

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And the Winner Is…. Walnuts!

According to new research published in Food and Function,  researchers from The University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa., compared the amount of powerful antioxidants called polyphenols in nine types of roasted and raw nuts and two types of peanut butter in an attempt to “crack” the antioxidant code. The results? Walnuts are the valedictorian. The [...]

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