Category: Nutrition
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Could Eating Local Food Reduce Blood Pressure and Diabetes Risk?
Published Friday 26 July 2019 By Tim Newman Fact checked by Isabel Godfrey A recent pilot study finds that consuming local foods with fewer additives might reduce abdominal fat, blood pressure, and diabetes risk. The study is small-scale, but the findings are intriguing. The food that we eat has a huge effect on our overall…
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Study Suggests Possible Link Between Sugary Drinks and Cancer
MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events | July 11, 2019 A study published by The BMJ today reports a possible association between higher consumption of sugary drinks and and an increased risk of cancer. While cautious interpretation is needed, the findings add to a growing body of evidence indicating that limiting sugary drink consumption, together with taxation and…
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How About a Broccoli Detox?
By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine Since childhood we’ve been told to eat our broccoli, a request usually based on the claim that “it’s good for you.” Though we now have substantial research to back up this statement, new data from Johns Hopkins scientists may be one of the best reasons to keep this…
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7 Clinically Proven Natural Remedies
by Naveed Saleh, MD, MS, for MDLinx | July 10, 2019 It may be hard to imagine, but in the days before prescription medications, people turned to natural remedies to treat conditions such as infections and toothaches. Currently, about 4 out of 10 adults still turn to alternative therapies and the like, including herbal supplements,…
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Fluids, Meat, Salt, and Kidney Stones
This article seems to be strong enough that doctors can advise their kidney stone patients to try to increase fluid and fruit intake. On the other hand, the stone former should try to reduce meat and salt. ~ Dr. Broussard July 10, 2019 Fluid Intake and Dietary Factors and the Risk of Incident Kidney Stones…
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Processed Meat, Lamb, Pork and Risk of Colorectal Cancer
This article suggests that lamb and pork are worse than beef in terms of their association with colorectal cancer. Processed meat was even worse than lamb and pork. ~ Dr. Broussard Red meat and processed meat intake and risk of colorectal cancer: A population-based case–control study European Journal of Cancer Prevention — Saliba W, et…
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What is an Elimination Diet and Why Should You Do One?
June 20th, 2019 by Amy Meyers, M.D. If you are experiencing mysterious symptoms that seem to come out of nowhere, such as headaches, fatigue, joint pain, brain fog, or digestive issues, there is a good chance that they are the result of an undiagnosed food sensitivity. To be clear, a food sensitivity is not a…
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Pro-inflammatory Diet and Depression
The typical American diet is deficient in fruits and vegetables and contains excessive amounts of meat, refined grain products, and dessert foods. Such a diet can have numerous adverse biochemical effects, all of which create a proinflammatory state. In this study, they relate chronic inflammation due to diet to the risk of depression in women,…
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Treatment For Leaky Gut Syndrome
In this article, they reviewed what interventions practitioners used for intestinal hyperpermeability or “leaky gut syndrome”. The main recommendations are Zinc, multistrain probiotics, Vitamin D, L-glutamine, curcumin and Saccharomyces boulardii. There seems to be good evidence that these nutritional interventions can help. I would add that Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, and alpha-ketoglutaric acid should be…
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Junk Phood, Heart Disease, and All Cause Mortality
In the June issue of the British Medical Journal, they published two articles dealing with ultra-processed food. In one article, they found that if you eat more than 4 servings of junk food per day, your chances of dying early from anything is 62%, and for each additional serving, your hazard goes up by 18%. In…