After reading my recent articles about red meat, I hope none of you are concerned that eating it will negatively impact your health. But I realize that nutrition is only one of the factors that motivate people to limit or eliminate red meat consumption; one of the primary reasons many go vegetarian is their concern about environmental impact.
We’ve all heard the claims that red meat production is harmful to the environment, so in this two-part series, ...
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In this episode I review new research on vitamin D that has led me to slightly modify my recommendations, and we discuss how multitasking and the internet are literally rewiring our brains.
It's also the first episode with our super-duper new sound dampening equipment. I think we've finally reached audio quality nirvana. Let us know what you think!
In this episode, we cover:
3:16 A surprising update on new vitamin D research (and Chris's revised recommendation)
26:53 The myth of ...
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“I was raised in the country and had the pleasure of jogging past and interacting with ...
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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 ...
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 ...
