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Oops: PUFAs may actually increase risk of death in patients with heart disease
The diet-heart hypothesis gets another body check. Media release below. ### Study raises questions about dietary fats and heart disease guidance New analysis of missing data casts doubt on diet-heart...
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Magical Food: Mediterranean Diet Shown to Ward Off Heart Attack and Stroke
The diet-heart hypothesis just won’t die. Read more at the New York Times.
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Associated Press shocked to learn that atherosclerosis is natural
Atherosclerosis found in mummies though the ancient Egyptians didn’t have Marlboros, Big Macs or Reality TV. Read more at the Associated Press.
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Five Guys’ cheeseburgers aren’t killing anyone
NYTimes writer Timothy Egan spotlights what he doesn’t know about diet and health. The diet-heart hypothesis was debunked long ago. No doubt Egan missed that development because he was working within...
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Claim: Secondhand smoke presents greater threat to teen girls than boys
Regardless of the validity of the researchers dubious HDL claims, unfortunately for these researchers, cholesterol levels have nothing to do with risk of heart disease. ### Secondhand smoke presents...
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Study: Saturated fats don’t stiffen blood vessels or harm function
From a registered clinical trial involving 112 study subjects published in the September 2013 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: The replacement of saturated fatty acids with monounsaturated fatty...
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Heart Rhythmn Problem?
The problem of atrial fibrillation is found to be aggravated by obesity. Obesity contributes to hypertension but also to cardiac load. If one weighs 200 pounds the heart has to circulate more blood and...
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Food Fetishists and Junk Nutritionists Push Back
Thomas Lifson reports on the Saturated Fats are OK study and the reaction from the food nuts. Food “experts” are very much like climate junkster “experts.” So if you’ve been preaching about fats,...
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Diet–don’t make no difference to me
I get really tired of people talking nutrition and diet. Food’s important to me but there is no magic healthy eating. Balance, right number of calories, don’t neglect fats, carbos, protein, is the best...
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What Kind Of Health Care System Do You Want?
Reforming health care is a signature issue with the current administration, but even the most ardent proponents of Obamacare would be reluctant to call it a success. Notwithstanding the well-publicized...
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Diet people alert
So here is a study promoting the apparent benfits of low carb/fat diets. http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1900694
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Another dietary myth debunked: Low-glycemic index carbohydrate diet
“The unexpected findings of the study suggest that the concept of glycemic index is less important than previously thought.” The media release is below. Low-glycemic index carbohydrate diet does not...
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No Silver Bullet…For Flawed Diet Studies
Once reputed to be effective for killing werewolves, modern day silver bullets are seemingly magical solutions to complex problems. However, most of the time you see “silver bullet” in print it is in...
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Bad Day for Food Nannies: Gov’t withdraws warning against eating cholesterol...
Right again. Click for the Washington Post report. Check back for more as we will be taking a victory lap today. Update: In 1984, the American Heart Association recommended a low-cholesterol diet based...
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Save Us From The Experts…Please!
Last week, many newspapers ran some version of a Washington Post piece entitled “The U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol.” Reporter Peter Whoriskey lavishes...
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Another magical diet to prevent heart disease
ACSH discusses the fashionable Mediterranean diet and how a study of thousands of Greeks shows it reduced by 47 percent the rate of cardiovascular disease. Confounders come to mind, and recall bias and...
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Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction...
Dr. Curtis—Please claim your Nobel. Here are the conclusions from this article, just published in openheart…… There were no differences in all-cause mortality and non-significant differences in CHD...
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More On Walking Back The Low Fat
Last week’s article provided a bit of historical perspective on how the elites could be so wrong for so long on dietary matters. Also included was one comment from Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), at the...
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