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Saturated Fats

Well the science is finally pouring in and the myth that saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease is broken.  The Seven Countries’ study started by Ancel Keys way back in 1958 to promote his belief that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol caused heart disease has been disproven as simply bad science created by cherry picking […]

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Cooking up AGEs

While I was on vacation visiting my family in San Diego, I came across a fascinating article on increasing lifespan by restricting AGEs – Advanced Glycation End Products.  (Yes, its true, even on vacation I am doing research.)  Why should you care?  Because AGEs are what you get when you eat BBQ and bacon and […]

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Snacking

A very modern phenomenon that has become oh so popular is snacking.  Until the late 1800’s consuming any food that did not require proper utensils was considered uncouth and unhygienic.  Snack foods did not establish themselves until the development of modern packaging.  Logos and labels that folks trusted carried the image of respectability and cleanliness. […]

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Insulin Resistance

What do…     Heart disease    Strokes    Obesity    Diabetes    Alzheimer’s    Clogged arteries    Migraines    Fatty Liver    Metabolic Syndrome    Polycystic ovary syndrome    and Cancerall have in common?  Insulin resistance. I have been doing a lot of studying lately on the latest info on insulin resistance.  It looks like insulin resistance is one of the key causes of most […]

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Diabesity

Diabesity – what’s that?  Diabesity is the newly coined term for obesity + diabetes, and refers to the link between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.  Since this is about the link underneath these conditions, you don’t even have to be obese to have diabesity.  Does this matter to you?  Half of […]

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Fasting for Health

A couple weeks ago my brother Daniel suggested I watch a Youtube video by a Dr Jason Fung, a kidney specialist from Canada.  He had been treating diabetic patients for 20 years for kidney disease caused by diabetes when it dawned on him that none of his patients ever got better.  He actually asked himself […]

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Taking Out the Trash

  Have you noticed how much effort it takes these days to stay healthy?  When I was a little kid diabetes was a rare almost unheard of disease.  We all knew about heart attacks, but nobody my parents or their parents knew had had one.  Cancer was not even a word that was in the […]

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Jekyll and Hyde Sugar

  Most people are not aware that sugar has two faces to it – one side that can actually be helpful to the body and another side that is destructive to the body.  When we look at sugar we see pretty white crystals of lovely sweetness.  But when you look at the chemical structure of […]

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Power of Sleep

When you end up in a hospital, do you stop to wonder how much sleep your attending physician got last night?  Your life is in their hands and you would like them to have their wits about them.  I mean, if they were obviously drunk, would you let them make life and death decisions for […]

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Brain Power Food

Hi , The brain is pretty important, and keeping it fed is a high priority.  As anyone who has ever experienced low blood sugar can tell you, not having the energy you need for your brain is disastrous.  It can seem like you are having a stroke.  You can lose your balance, become unfocused, your […]