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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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Yes, There Are Healthy Sugar Substitutes
It is true that sweets are not good for you because they lead to fat accumulation and to diabetes. I explain how this works later in this blog. But who says you cannot sweeten your life with healthy...
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Forty Percent Of Premature Deaths Can Be Prevented
A new report from the CDC (Center of Disease Control) in the US has revealed that up to 40% of premature deaths could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes. As this link shows every year about...
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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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The Problem Are Sugar And Starchy Foods
Fareed Zacharia interviewed Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta on CNN on Sept. 10, 2014 regarding why sugar is worse than fat. I like to explain why it is important to rethink the issues of fat,...
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Smoking E-Cigarettes Of No Benefit
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were invented to help people get away from the carcinogenic content of real cigarettes and they were thought to help people in the process to quit smoking as well....
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Low Fat Diet Not Protective Of Heart Attacks
The British Medical Journal (BMJ Publishing Group, James J DiNicolantonio) published a critical editorial review regarding the lack of science behind the low fat diet guidelines. The low fat guidelines...
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Experiments On Humans With New Statin Drugs?
The FDA has released new statin drugs to be used on a high-risk segment of the population who have genetically high cholesterol, called familial hypercholesterolemia that runs in families. These drugs...
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Two Is Better Than One: Omega-3 And Krill Oil
Omega-3 fatty acids have gotten a lot of limelight in the press; krill oil was kept more in the background by the media. But both omega-3 and krill oil are important for your health. What can confuse...
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Sugar As White Death
Sugar is causing disability and mortality to a much higher degree than most people are aware of: a recent study pointed out that worldwide 184,000 deaths per year are attributable to sugar-sweetened...
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Obesity Shortens Life
Of all the factors that definitely shorten life, obesity stands out like a giant. Let’s review a couple of facts regarding obesity: Americans who were born between 1966 and 1985 became obese at a much...
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Processed Meat Causes Cancer
A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that processed foods are cancer producing. The report also stated that to a lesser degree red meat is also cancer causing. Overall there are...
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Beer Belly Bad News
You heard the expression “beer belly”. It is an unflattering term for increased abdominal girth, especially in males. It is quite often that this picture is found in middle-aged men who consume more...
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Life Extended By Several Decades
Have you ever thought about the possibility to prolong your “Freshness Date”? At the 23rd Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine on Dec. 13, 2015 in Las Vegas the endocrinologist, Dr. Thierry...
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Heart Attacks Can Kill
We rarely hear that heart attacks can kill; we are more likely to hear that a person was brought to the hospital with a heart attack. The doctors placed a stent or two and the person left the hospital...
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Women Win Turning Older
Supercentenarians may teach us something about the question “Why do women win turning older”? Supercentenarians are people who are 110 years or older. Presently there are 53 of them distributed over...
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Prevent Unhealthy Aging
We know that stress can age you prematurely, but what do we need to do to prevent unhealthy aging? This is exactly what this review by cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn has done. It points out that the right...
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Avoid That Heart Attack
Recently Dr. Mark Hyman mentioned a 7-point program to avoid that heart attack. If you follow the recommendations below, chances are that you do not only avoid heart attacks, but also strokes, high...
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Sugar Can Cause Heart Attacks
Recently an online medical journal article from JAMA has revealed that sugar can cause heart attacks. As the Guardian reports, this analysis of influence peddling of the sugar industry going back 60...
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Stress Drives Our Lives
Every year the American Psychological Association (APA) monitors the American public how stress drives our lives. This yearly report has been compiled since 2007. About 75% of the people questioned...
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