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 | Feb 24, 2009 | Heart Disease, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youthful Aging
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...