Archive for November, 2008
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Drinking hibiscus tea lowered blood pressure in a group of pre-hypertensive (blood pressure levels that are above normal but not high enough to be called hypertension) and mildly hypertensive (high blood pressure) adults, according to a report being presented today by nutrition scientist Diane McKay at the American Heart Association’s annual conference in New Orleans, [...]
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Cholesterol and Heart Disease-A Phony Issue - By Mary Enig, PhD
The official advice to lower serum cholesterol levels has brought about numerous supplements with the attached claim that consuming them will lower cholesterol. In fact, the body uses cholesterol to repair and to protect. When improvement to the health of the body brought about by [...]
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
A 3 year study has shown that, contrary to some evidence, bone mineral density may benefit from high protein diets, at least in older people. But the high potein diet must also meet the recommended dietary allowance for both calcium and vitamin D.
This study looked at 342 men and women older than 65 who did not [...]
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Recent research into leptin has revealed what is likely to be very important in the control of appetite, weight loss and the regulation of body weight.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Adding algae oil to your diet has been proved to lower high triglycerides. The benefits of fish oil include the ability to lower high triglycerides in the blood. Instead of using fish oil in this study, a natural oil extracted from golden algae that contains 40 percent DHA, but no EPA, was used to prevent any unwanted side [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
This article, which grew out of conversations between a former drug rep and a physician who researches pharmaceutical marketing, reveals the strategies used by reps to manipulate physician prescribing.
The authors of the article are Adriane Fugh-Berman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United [...]
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