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June 3, 2013

The Dirty Little Secret About Diet Research

Let’s face it: most diet research sucks. There, I’ve said it. Now I’ll show you why. To do so, we have to briefly—and, I promise, painlessly- discuss one or two fundamentals of research design. Only then can you truly know how misleading, inadequate, often irrelevant and sometimes dangerous much of the nutrition research you hear [...]
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Published on June 03, 2013 14:09

May 28, 2013

8 Simple Rules to Reduce Your Risk of Dying Early

Back in 2007, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) together with the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) issued their official recommendations on diet, physical activity, and weight management for cancer prevention. They based these recommendations on the best and most comprehensive scientific evidence currently available. I’m going to tell you what these 8 recommendations [...]
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Published on May 28, 2013 14:21

May 13, 2013

7 Big Breakthroughs for Burning Fat and Building Muscle

Every year, the American Society of Bariatric Physicians puts on a conference, and as part of that conference there’s a one day intensive sponsored by the Nutrition and Metabolism Society. The Nutrition and Metabolism Society exists to help fight information about the effectiveness of carbohydrate restriction on fighting diabetes and obesity. According to their website, [...]
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Published on May 13, 2013 15:10

May 8, 2013

Conventional Cholesterol Tests are Obsolete

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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Published on May 08, 2013 15:15

May 1, 2013

6 Toxic Chemicals Lurking in Your Favorite Skin Care Products

If you read my blog then you probably spend a lot of time at the grocery store scanning food labels for toxic ingredients like trans fats and MSG. But I’m willing to bet you aren’t as picky when it comes to your favorite personal care products. Perhaps this is because… There is a lot of [...]
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Published on May 01, 2013 10:03

April 22, 2013

High Blood Pressure: The Silent Killer

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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Published on April 22, 2013 11:56

April 15, 2013

The Carnitine Controversy: What Does That New “Red Meat” Study Really Tell Us?

It hasn’t been a great week for carnivores. A new study found that an amino acid-like compound found in red meat transforms into a heart-disease causing chemical called TMAO, which, researchers now theorize, is probably the real reason red meat is bad for you. The good news is that researchers are finally coming around to [...]
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Published on April 15, 2013 13:40

April 8, 2013

Diabetes: Prevention and Cure

It’s almost impossible to talk about diabetes these days without also mentioning its constant companion: obesity. In fact, the two have become so linked that health practitioners have come up with their own nickname for the pair, a kind of medical version of “Brangelina”-they call it Diabesity. According to Linda Geiss, a statistician with the [...]
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Published on April 08, 2013 13:47

April 1, 2013

Why Lowering Cholesterol Won’t Prevent Heart Disease

Trying to prevent heart disease by lowering cholesterol is like trying to prevent obesity by cutting the lettuce out of your Big Mac. Surprised? Read on. Recently, cardiologist Stephen Sinatra and I came together to write a book—“The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Cholesterol Won’t Prevent Heart Disease and the Statin-Free Plan That Will” (now [...]
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Published on April 01, 2013 13:04

March 18, 2013

Soda and the Nanny State

On Tuesday, March 12, on the day before it was scheduled to go into effect, a state judge struck down New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on jumbo-sized sodas, triggering a paroxysm of editorials about the nanny state and the future of civilization. OK, everybody, let’s take a deep breath. I hate the [...]
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Published on March 18, 2013 13:21