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Buying Into High Carb, Low Fat Myth Makes You Sick
If you are like most people, you probably still think that “healthy grains” like wheat are good for you and are “essential for a well balanced diet”. Ever since Kellogg’s introduced cereal for...
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Airplane Food And Airport Food, A Personal Travel Experience
Travelling for pleasure is usually something we eagerly anticipate: it can associate with a long wished for vacation, meeting family and friends, enjoying a different environment, in short: there is a...
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From Inflammation To Heart Attacks, Strokes And Arthritis
Have you ever wondered why people who limp from arthritis in their hip also often get heart attacks? And have you ever wondered why people with high blood pressure get strokes and/or heart attacks? It...
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The Super Powers Of Vitamin D
Originally, when vitamin D was found to be the missing ingredient in preventing rickets in growing children the recommended daily allowance (RDA) to prevent rickets was found to be 400 IU of vitamin D....
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Melatonin More Than A Sleeping Aid
Melatonin has been available to the public in the US since 1992. It is usually used as a sleeping aid or for jet lag related sleeping problems. However, in the last decade much more data about...
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Smoking Remains A Health Hazard
Recently new statistics came out that show that 48.8 million people in the US (19% of the population) still smoke. 22 % of the population are male, 17% female. Smoking is responsible for 20% of all...
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Protecting Yourself From Environmental Toxins
Environmental toxins are toxins that may be in your drinking water, in what you eat, in the air you breathe, or they enter your body through your skin when you swim in contaminated water or walk on a...
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Protect Yourself From Radioactivity
Even though the Chernobyl catastrophe was bad enough, it appears now the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant catastrophe was 7 to 10 times worse in terms of worldwide radioactive pollution. Even...
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Focus On Health Rather Than Disease
Not too long ago I came across a blog that summarized the “18 Biggest Problems with Modern Medicine”. Although this is a useful list, it occurred to me that these problems could be compressed into...
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Tools To Turn 100
A Swedish longevity study that went on for 50 years gave me the idea to blog about the factors that can help you to turn 100 and still have your mental capacity and good health. Let me introduce you to...
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Can Longevity Research Make Us Age Slower?
Longevity research has done a lot of experiments, but can longevity research make us age slower? This year an 800-page summary was published of all the longevity research that has been going on. A...
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My Experience With Cancer Research
April is cancer awareness and fundraising month. I thought it would be interesting to analyze what’s going on behind the scenes of cancer research. I was a cancer researcher for over 3 years at the...
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Treatment For Alzheimer’s Failed, But Prevention Succeeds
Recently another news story about a failed drug against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) went through the news media as shown in this link. Donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine are the most...
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The Inconvenient Truth About Convenience Foods
When your grandmother grew up there was very little convenience food, maybe ketchup and yes, there was processed cheese and coke. There were also bread and butter. Now we go through a large grocery...
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Statins Can Hurt The Consumer
Lovastatin (Mevacor, from Merck) was the first statin drug approved by the FDA in 1987 as a cholesterol-lowering drug in the US. It made history in helping high-risk heart attack patients reduce their...
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Forget The Glass Of Red Wine For Good Health
We have been hearing for over 10 years that 1 glass of red wine per day for women and 2 glasses of red wine per day for men would be recommended in order to prevent a heart attack or a stroke. Now we...
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