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Statins Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Is your cholesterol on the high side ? Then, there is a great chance that your physician will want to place you on statins. “ Statins ”, known scientifically as HMG CoA inhibitors, are a class of drugs that reduce the concentration of cholesterol in...
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Deciding Which Direction is Best
Conflicting "scientific studies" regarding what characterizes a healthy diet saturate our media daily. For example, it's been well established that saturated animal fat promotes chronic disease, yet due to popular (and misguided) news reports this fact...
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Take the New Year Health Challenge!
Happy New Year! The holiday season is always a joyous time of year, especially when family and friends fill our homes to celebrate! And of course no holiday festivity would be complete without the many hours of preparing and sharing a delicious meal,...
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How Not to Die by Michael Greger MD
If you are familiar with the work of Dr. Michael Greger , you know how passionate he is about digging through complicated scientific research linking diet and disease. My blogs and articles feature many videos from his website, NutritionFacts.org . Dr....
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Don't men have to eat meat to maintain strength and masculinity?
For most men, consuming meat (protein) is associated with " muscle, vitality, strength, power, energy, vigor, aggressiveness, and liveliness. " This image comes from clever marketing tactics, promoting the sale of meat as superior protein that sustains...
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Current Protein Recommendations Flawed
What does your typical diet look like for one day? If you answered bacon and eggs for breakfast, turkey and cheese sandwich for lunch, and chicken fried steak for dinner, you're not alone. Basing every meal around an animal-based protein source is...
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How to Eat a Balanced WFPB Diet
What is a balanced diet? A diet that supplies the proper proportions of all the nutrients necessary for health is considered a balanced diet. But despite our best efforts to eat healthfully, many of us worry that maybe we're not getting enough of...
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Insulin Resistance Insulin Sensitivity
As a Type-1 Diabetic and due to the manner in which I learned to manage it, Insulin Resistance became a passionate topic for me as it is a fundamental element of metabolic control. I learned that the lower the insulin resistance, the less insulin I had...
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Sugary Beverages and Rising Stroke Risk
Every 40 seconds, a person suffers from a stroke and every 4 minutes, someone dies from a stroke in the United States. Stroke is the number one cause of long-term disability and the number five cause of deaths in the US, killing more than one hundred...
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What's on the Menu?
After making the transition to a healthy plant-based diet, you may find it difficult to find a restaurant that serves plant-based meals. Upon arriving at the restaurant, the menu features many choices, yet in your mind, you're seeing...."heart attack,...
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The McDougall 10-day Live-in Program
In a 10-day program, Dr. McDougall and his team assist their patients in regaining their health. Within just a few days, many see a significant improvement in their diseases and are attributed to a nutritious diet, exercise and improving daily habits....
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Reducing Menopause Symptoms
One of the many benefits of consuming a Starch-Smart® diet is its ability to reduce and even prevent many menopausal symptoms , such as hot flashes, food cravings, depression, irritability and anxiety without the use of hormone replacement therapy. Dr....
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The Scoop on Poop
For most people, discussing bowel function can be almost as painful as being constipated! Although it is an embarrassing topic for many, most people are concerned whether or not their bowel habits are normal. If you're curious about this topic, you've...
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Red Meat Increases Stroke Risk
Some people cherish the taste of a delicious red meat based meal so much that they feel they just can't survive without it. For others... not so much. Those people who belong to the first group should be interested in the findings of a recent study that...
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Going Plant-Strong With Rip Esselstyn
Rip Esselstyn , author of The Engine 2 Diet and Plant-Strong (Previously titled "My Beef With Meat") , often shows the image of a man drinking milk from a cow during his presentations to drive home the point that humans are the only mammals on the...
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Just Say No to Candy!
Dr. Joel Fuhrman has written an excellent article regarding our culture's obsession using rich, disease-promoting foods for celebrating special occasions, especially for Halloween. Dr. Fuhrman states in his article, "As parents we must protect our...
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Healthy Diets Start in the Womb
This is a very interesting article written by Kristin Wartman from The New York Times. She explores several reasons why it's important for parents to feed their children healthy food right from the start....even while in the womb. Children quickly...
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Medical Care = Third Leading Cause of Death
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." These are wise words spoken by Hippocrates , an ancient Greek physician that is "considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine." The Hippocratic Oath which is named after...
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Part III: Do Plant-Based Diets Need Supplementing?
Iron. Iron is a necessary mineral in our diet that can be found in both meat and plants; however not all iron is created equal. Iron comes in two forms: heme iron which comes from animal products and non-heme iron which comes from plant sources. Whole...
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September 2011 Austin Health Retreat
For our fourth opportunity with Dr. Carney again hired as Medical Director for Rip Esselstyn's Engine 2 Diet Immersions we rented a U-Haul truck and packed up much of the office on Friday September 16th to be transported to Austin's Travaasa Resort...
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