Don't you just love it when the Universe sends you just what you need at the time you need it?! Here's me sitting trying to work out how to service you with proper diabetes screening - which you would think is simple, but is not it turns out! - and up pops a reminder from …
Call To Change ‘Low Fat’ Advice in UK
Great blog post from Cytoplan this week about the increasingly-urgent call from experts and public health bods to change the advice UK citizens are given about eating fat. Why? Cos it just ain't working, check this out: Official guidelines on fat intake: Are we in need of a “major overhaul”? “Urging people to follow low-fat diets …
LDL Cholesterol Good For You After 60?
Another death-knell tolls for the cholesterol myth today, from WDDTY: Careful with those statins—‘bad’ cholesterol helps us live longer As we’ve been saying for many years, ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol—targeted by statin drugs—is good for you as you get older. In fact, higher levels help you live longer once you reach the age of 60, a …
Women Smokers: Stop Before Middle Age!
Great piece in The Lancet for you today showing that if women stop smoking before they hit middle-age, preferably well before, they can reverse 97% of the damage done and live another 10 years on average! The researchers did a prospective study on well over a million women and concluded: Although the hazards of smoking …
Perfect Body Composition, By Accident!
As many of you know, I have been following quite a strict allergy diet for the last couple of years which is loosely Paleo-based, but a lot stricter. Currently, I eat loads of fish, healthy fats like olive oil, avocados and coconut oil, and tons of fruit and veg so quite balanced actually protein, …
The Voice Of Reason On Statins At Last
About flippin time, too - doctors warn against advising blanket statins because of the reliance on too many industry-paid for studies. What have I been saying for years? Nice to see a voice of reason from within the NHS at last: New NHS statins guidance 'risks harming patients' - Telegraph.
The Statins Debate, Again. Sigh…
How many times do we have to see the push for statins, for goodness sake? Rather than wade in myself this week about the new call for statins to be given to ever more people, I thought I would wait for Dr Briffa's comment, since it is his hobby-horse. And, here it is, and I …
CoQ10 and Selenium Combo Reduces Risk of Heart Attack
Interesting research here showing the effectiveness of taking CoQ10 and selenium together to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease. I have definitely seen CoQ10 help symptomatically over the years in people after heart attacks so can attest to that. This is the first research I have seen combining the two elements - it is known that …
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Heart Attack Warning Signs In Month Before
More than half the people who suffer a heart attack have had one of four warning signs up to a month beforehand. The most common symptom is chest pain, followed by shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting and palpitations. Researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles explored the experiences of over 560 men who survived …
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Garlic ‘As Good As Drugs’ For #High Blood Pressure?
For years now, I have seen garlic both in diet and supplemental form help bring people's blood pressure down. So, it was nice to see a study comparing how garlic works compared to a major blood pressure drug: atenolol. No surprise to me: it came out just as good or even better than the drug. …
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