Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 3 of 12
More today on whether dairy products contribute to health: Calcium absorption rates according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: Brussels sprouts 64% [...]
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So as you can see, Europeans have fast food. McD’s is found in 10 locations in the very hip and cosmopolitan city of Barcelona, for instance. They don’t have nearly as many chains or locations as we do, though. I have a weird little game I played in airports and train stations [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →Feel-good prophets
Unless you’re new here, you probably already know my opinion that Dr. Robert Atkins, before dying with massive heart disease, did terrible damage to Americans’ health, and confused an already struggling nation regarding nutrition. Dr. Nathan Pritikin, on the other hand, was a prominent voice for precisely the type of lifestyle I advocate for here [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →$ billions spent on useless cholesterol drugs
Millions of Americans are taking Vytorin or Zetia for heart disease. And yet, full results were finally released last week of a failed trial showing absolutely NO benefit from these drugs. Two Congressional panels have launched probes into why it took drug makers almost two years to release results! I could save [...]
9 Comments • Continue Reading →cardiovascular health: nature vs. nurture
I went to give blood today, hoping that my always-borderline hematocrit was high enough. It was. Though one point lower and I’d have been rejected–again. Like most other things the RDA does, those hematocrit averages aren’t based on the ideal, but rather the average. The averages are, of course, of a [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →a bodybuilder who “gets it!”
I leveraged some of this from a blog by Jason Ferruggia, one of the few bodybuilders who actually knows better than to drink whey protein shakes:Many of you know that dairy is not good for getting lean, and that consumption of dairy products has been linked to a decreased immune response. Most of us [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →heart disease and degenerating DNA
[I'll come back to "Who You Gonna Call" blogging on the false gods of nutrition, tomorrow . . .] Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I have 100 lbs. to lose, am on Lipitor for high cholesterol, and started drinking green smoothies a few weeks ago. My cholesterol has begun to come way down, but my HDL [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →young people with heart disease
Every semester, I have my Management Communications 320 students do an online writing assignment on a company discussion board. I give them a case involving discussion of an elementary school’s parent-teacher organization’s proposal for a new hot-lunch menu sponsored by fast-food chains. This case is based on my own real-life experience with my [...]
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