mediterranean diet

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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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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Fructose: Evil or Misunderstood?

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

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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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Rebuilding Your Diet

Dr. Garth Davis and Dr. Terry Simpson talk about how they rebuild patient’s diets after weight loss surgery. Perhaps how they rebuild those diets will apply to you.

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Is there no safe level of alcohol?

You may have heard that there is no safe level of alcohol, based on a recent study published. We interview the lead author of that study, and put alcohol in perspective for you.

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The Mediterranean Diet

This week’s podcast is simply called “The Mediterranean Diet,” and we go into why it is important to your health and how you can incorporate it into your daily routine. It isn’t all olive oil and wine – well maybe some wine.

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Food For Thought: Mediterranean Diet & Memory

The ability to have an early intervention – a diet intervention, to delay onset of cognitive decline is a priority for all, but to do it with a diet as lovely as this?

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