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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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 ...
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 ...
To read more about heart disease and cholesterol, check out the special report page.
In the last article in this series, I explained that LDL particle number (LDL-P) is a much more accurate predictor of cardiovascular disease risk than either LDL or total cholesterol. In this article, I’m going to briefly outline the five primary causes of elevated LDL-P.
Conventional medicine is primarily focused on suppressing symptoms. If your blood pressure is high, you take a medication to lower ...
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 cholesterol levels in the blood for the majority of the population.
In this article, I will debunk the myth that high cholesterol in the blood is the cause of heart disease.
Myth #2: High cholesterol ...
This article was first featured at The Huffington Post. Click here to see the original article.
Celiac disease (CD) was initially described in the first century A.D. by a Greek physician named Aretaeus of Cappadocia. (1) But neither Aretaeus nor anyone else knew that CD is caused by an autoimmune reaction to gluten, a protein in wheat. That didn't become clear until 1950 -- several centuries later -- when Dr. Willem Dicke, a Dutch pediatrician, conclusively proved that gluten was the ...
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