Culinary Medicine

Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors for Non-Diabetics

The proliferation of continuous glucose monitors for non-diabetics has allowed the development of less expensive equipment and provided an important tool to see glucose variability among people. This provides real-time data regarding diet.

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Vitamins and Supplements for Prevention of Heart Disease and Cancer

Citing over 80 studies there is no proof that primary prevention of heart disease or cancer can be achieved through vitamins and supplements. Some, like vitamin A types, may cause harm.

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Can You Beet Hypertension?

Nitrates are abundant in green vegetables and are an important to reduce hypertension. They do this by their high nitrate concentration which converts to nitric oxide.

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Microplastics in Fish, in Fruit, in Water

Microplastics are in our food from vegetables to fish, from meat to fruit. They are in the air we breathe, and we don’t know what harm they can do

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Fructose: Evil or Misunderstood?

Fructose may not be the evil ingredient that it was proposed to be in 2010.

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Red Meat: Is it good or bad? The answer is sometimes

Red meat is every bit as contentious as politics. In this case carnivores vs vegans – here is the latest data with references

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The Carnivore Diet and Myths

The Alaska Native peoples are often cited by the Carnivore diet proponents as an example of people who ate well and had no disease. This is incorrect.

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Fish Oil and Atrial Fibrillation

Fish oil capsules are a multi-billion dollar industry that was just hit with the reality that they may cause more harm than good.

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COVID Vaccine Myths

Now that the COVID19 vaccine is out, the anti-vaccination crowd has started their nonsense about the vaccine. Some of their myths just don’t fly, but they are now doing a new myth: Isn’t this just too soon – or we rolled this vaccine out too soon. Nothing could be further from the truth. The mRNA…

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