culinary medicine

Losing Weight with Apps

Losing Weight With Apps Can a phone app help you lose weight? How about with your cholesterol, blood pressure, or waist size? Perhaps you’ve heard the latest Noom ads, where they boast forty publications showing that their app will help you lose weight. Apple is coming out with more ways to have their new watch…

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Decreasing Cholesterol: drugs and diet

The discovery of LDL, statins and genetics led to an overall reduction in cardiac mortality. Risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, and high blood sugars increase risk only with high LDL.

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Alcohol and the Mediterranean Diet

Alcohol consumption has been identified as a component of the Mediterranean Diet. Recent data has led some to conclude there is no “safe” level of alcohol. However, conclusions from those studies are often incomplete, and conclusions come from bias sources.

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Mediterranean Diet After Weight Loss Surgery

Patients who adopted a Mediterranean Diet following weight loss surgery had better weight loss than those who adopted other plans. The more adherent to the Mediterranean Diet, the better long-term results after surgery. Regardless of the type of surgery.

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Implementing the Mediterranean Diet – Part One

Eating a wide variety of plants is one key to health. This has been shown in multiple studies that plants provide an important protection to your body.

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Inflammation and the Mediterranean Diet

The Mediterranean Diet is the most anti-inflammatory diet ever tested. While inflammation is necessary, too much can make your life miserable and lead to injury

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Cancer and The Mediterranean Diet

The Mediterranean Diet is associated with a decreased risk of cancer, decreased risk of cancer recurrence, increased survival from cancer, as well as overall improved longevity

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Ancel Keys and Revisionist History

Was Ancel Keys responsible for the modern epidemic of obesity? If you have read any low carb blog lately, you would think so. Their revisionist history is broken down to this: Ancel Keys was an influential scientist who thought fat was to blame for heart disease He did a study of diet and correlated fat…

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The Modern Mediterranean Diet

The Modern Mediterranean Diet has the best long-term data for longevity, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, reduced risk of cancer, and the least inflammatory of all diets. This is a history of how this diet was modified and became the best diet you never heard about.

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