This is the final article in the Diet-Heart Myth series I've been writing over the past several weeks. If you missed the previous articles, you can find them on the special report page for heart disease.
Ben Franklin said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Heart disease is no exception. According to the INTERHEART study, which examined cardiovascular risk factors in 51 countries, 9 out of the 10 strongest risk factors for heart ...
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Here is The Roundup, Edition 5, bringing you the best from around the web from the past two weeks!
Blast from the Past
Last May (2012), I wrote an entire series on salt, including the history of salt in the human diet, the dangers of salt restriction, and my recommendations for a healthy salt intake. There’s no evidence that adding salt to taste to a whole foods, Paleo diet is unhealthy, and salt restriction to the level recommended ...
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To read more about heart disease and cholesterol, check out the special report page.
Cardiovascular disease is one of the most misdiagnosed and mistreated conditions in medicine. In the first article in this series, I explained the evidence suggesting that eating cholesterol and saturated fat does not increase the risk of heart disease. In the second article, I explained it's not the amount of cholesterol in your blood that drives heart disease risk, but the number of LDL particles. In the third ...
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Are you suffering from low libido? Has your sex drive gradually drifted away? Are you looking for ways to connect more deeply with your partner, and cultivate a more rewarding and satisfying sex life?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should definitely check out Sean Croxton's upcoming SexyBack Summit. He's assembled a group of experts in all aspects of sexual health, including balancing hormones, supercharging sex drive, cultivating intimacy and connection, optimizing nutrition ...
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In this episode I discuss a couple of interesting recent studies, and answer some questions. Enjoy!
In this episode, we cover:
1:35 What Chris ate for breakfast
6:27 Early evidence for meat consumption
18:33 Solving the cholesterol controversy
38:22 More details from Chris's daily routine (and more treadmill desk)
44:00 Additional sources of magnesium
48:35 When should I stop breastfeeding?
52:49 What to do about anxiety during pregnancy
Links We Discuss:
Oldowan hunting behaviors at Kanjera South - John Hawks Blog
Lipids and lipoproteins and risk of ...
A recent study by published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has proposed a new link between eggs and coronary heart disease (CHD) that doesn’t involve cholesterol. A team of researchers, led by Dr. Stanley Hazen, showed that dietary choline—a nutrient found largely in eggs, beef liver and other animal foods—is metabolized by bacteria in our gut and then converted by the liver into TMAO.
They demonstrated this with a “choline challenge”: feeding volunteers two ...
