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...Osteoporosis: a silent epidemic
Osteoporosis, a disease you cannot feel; you can only test for it. Literally, the term osteoporosis means “porous bone”. It is a very common condition, affecting more than 40 million people in the United States. Osteoporosis is defined by a reduction in...Importance of Testosterone for Healthy Aging in Men
Testosterone is the primary sex hormone (androgen or steroid hormone) produced by the testes and it plays an essential role in the health men. Beyond determining the male sex characteristics, testosterone is a determinant of muscle strength, bone mass, libido,...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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