How Much Vitamin D is Enough?
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...Healthy Eating Helps Reduces Chronic disease
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...Alcohol may increase cancer risk in women
According to a large scale British study, even low to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of several cancers. The “Million Women Study” followed nearly 1.3 million women between age 50 and 64 starting in 1997, tracked the...Eat More and Lose Weight?
Oh yeah, sign me up!!! Sounds too good to be true, but this is a case when it is not, and may have the added benefit of reducing your risk for type 2 diabetes. Dietary energy density may be a key to explaining this apparent paradox. Published this year in the...What Your Cholesterol Level Doesn't Tell You
Cholesterol is a poor predictor of heart attack risk Most heart attacks occur in people who have “normal” cholesterol. Using cholesterol as the predictor of a future heart attack is not even as good as flipping a coin. Data from the landmark Framingham...Get Your Copy!
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