by drebanks | Jun 24, 2009 | Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Uncategorized, Women's Health, Youthful Aging
Superior to Statins in Heart Failure Patients Omega-3 fish oil supplements should be on everyone’s supplement list. Fish oil reduces silent inflammation, helps reduce blood pressure and stabilizes arterial plaque against rupture. Published in the journal...
by drebanks | Jun 21, 2009 | Exercise, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Women's Health, Youthful Aging
Supervised Exercise and Nutrition Counseling was Key Results of the SYNERGIE trial reported at the 77th European Athersclerosis Society Congress in April 2008, showed the risk factor profile of high-risk, abdominally obese men with features of the metabolic syndrome...
by drebanks | Jun 21, 2009 | Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Women's Health, Youthful Aging
Abdominal Girth More Significant than BMI A report this year in the New England Journal of Medicine confirmed earlier findings that a higher body mass index (BMI) is significantly associated with mortaility. More importantly, a large European study found that the...
by drebanks | Jun 21, 2009 | Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Women's Health
Fructose is the predominant sugar in fruit – an apple, for instance, is roughly 6% fructose, 4% sucrose and 1% glucose by weight – was considered healthy because it did not elevate blood sugar and had a low glycemic index. Although fructose enters the...
by drebanks | Jun 21, 2009 | Cancer, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Osteoporosis, Vitamin D, Women's Health, Youthful Aging
Most Americans are vitamin D deficient due to inadequate dietary intake and insufficient sun exposure (UVB rays). The predominant dietary form of vitamin D is D2. That is also the form typically found in OTC vitamin supplements. The preferred, and more potent, form...
by drebanks | Jun 21, 2009 | Cancer, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Women's Health, Youthful Aging
Modern day nutritional habits are the cause of the explosion in heart disease, type-2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome. High calorie, high fat, high sugar and processed foods are to blame. Calorie deprivation is not sustainable and only leads to chronic...