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Low Vitamin K2 Linked to Calcified Arteries and Weak Bones
What role does vitamin K play in heart and bone health? Are Americans getting enough of it? Find out in the latest research review from James J. Kenney, ?PhD, FACN...
New U.S. Dietary Guidelines To Drop Cholesterol Limits
The most obvious tragic flaw in an otherwise mostly science-based report was the Advisory Committee's questionable decision to no longer include any limit on dietary cholesterol intake.
Low GI Diet, Cardiovascular Disease Risk, and Insulin Resistance
If the high-GI and low-GI diets differ significantly in salt, potassium, magnesium, fiber, saturated fat, and cholesterol content, then it may be those variables, rather than GI per se, that are the true causal factor.
Be Good to Your Heart for Heart Month: Display Ideas
Displays are a great way to communicate health messages, and they add brightness to a space at the same time. Here are some ideas for Heart Month displays ? with interactive activities to boot!
The Impact of Atkins on Nutrition Research
Bazzano and Hu?s study does not provide convincing evidence that replacing whole grains, fruits, and beans with fatty animal products high in saturated fat and cholesterol won't promote atherosclerosis and more CVD in the long term.
Might Reducing Salt Intake Promote ?Cardiovascular Disease?
The experience from England seriously undermines Dr. Oparil's editorial claim that the PURE study results ?... call into question the feasibility and usefulness of dietary sodium as a population-based strategy for reducing blood pressure.? This makes me wonder why none of the science writers and journalists who were so quick to parrot Dr. Oparil's opinions ever thought to ask why she believed the questionable data and opinions from the PURE researchers were not largely refuted by the real-life public health efforts ongoing in England.
Do New Studies Refute the Benefits of Reducing Salt?
The claims being made by the authors of the two PURE articles are troubling because the preponderance of credible scientific data continues to show that elevated BP is the single greatest CVD risk factor in most populations. Data from controlled clinical trials show that dietary salt in excess of 1,500 mg/day is the #1 dietary cause of elevated BP.
Dietary Phosphate Linked to Hypertension and CVD
New Guidelines for the Use of Blood Pressure Medication
The Pritikin Program: Fad or the Real Deal?
For Heart Attack Prevention, is Diet More Important than Statins?
Are Vegetarian Diets Healthful?
B-Vitamins Reduce Alzheimer's Disease
IOM 2013 Report on Sodium Intake
New Way Red Meats and Eggs Promote Atherosclerosis
It is hardly news that substances found in red meat and eggs promote atherosclerosis and lead to coronary artery disease.
Are CLAs Healthful Trans Fatty Acids?
Could Paleo Diets Promote Heart Disease?
Healing Foods for a Healthy Life: Part One
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