Are Saturated Fats Really All That Bad?
This is an epic post of mine from the old Advanced Mediterranean Diet blog, originally dated July 6, 2009. That was a watershed year for me in terms of accepting nutritional dogma, because of the ideas...
View ArticleHeart Disease Deaths in Diabetics Falling Fast
MedPage Today a few months ago reported a dramatic drop in cardiovascular death rates for folks with diabetes: The death rate from cardiovascular disease in U.S. adults with diabetes fell 40% from 1997...
View ArticleHarvard Physician Recommends More Potassium, Less Sodium
…to prevent cardiovascular disease and stroke. Those mineral trends are natural with the paleo diet, although not mentioned by Dr. Pande. For detail:...
View ArticlePWDs (Diabetics) Having Fewer Heart Attacks, Amputations, and Strokes
MedPageToday has the details. This jibes with my experience over the last 30 years. A quote: An analysis of national data found that rates of myocardial infarction (MI) in diabetic patients dropped...
View ArticleAccidents Replace Stroke as 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S.
For most of my medical career, stroke was the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer. Just a few years ago, chronic lower respiratory tract disease surpassed stroke....
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