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My Buddy LDL

by Fred Hahn on September 24, 2011

That’s it! I’m sticking up for my friend poor, old LDL cholesterol (mind the pun of course. Get it – sticking up for…sticking…). From now on Dr. Oz or Ornish, if you want to bad mouth my little buddy, you’re gonna have to go through me:
Anyhow, LDL cholesterol (the so called “bad” cholesterol) the stuff [...]

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Makoplasty here I come

by Fred Hahn on May 13, 2011

Well, I’ve made up my mind. I’ve decided to go through with the Makoplasty procedure.
The fact is that my arthritis isn’t going away and will only continue to give me pain and immobility for the rest of my life. I simply can’t keep taking pain meds as a couple of weeks ago they started [...]

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Gary Taubes and Sugar

April 13, 2011

Science Journalist Gary Taubes has a new article published called Is Sugar Toxic? in today’s New York Times.
Enjoy!

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Ancient Atherosclerosis

April 12, 2011

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A few days ago, National Public Radio did a story on Egyptian mummies with heart disease. When the mummies guts were scanned using a CT machine, lo and behold, these ancient folks arteries were chock full of cholesterol and plaque.
According to Dr. Greg Thomas, who is one of the scientists that discovered [...]

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Hope For Arthritic Knees – Like Mine!

March 25, 2011

I met with a fantastic surgeon the other day, Dr. William Macaulay Chief of Adult Reconstructive Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, who specializes in a minimally invasive surgery for arthritic hips and knees (unfortunately like mine).
He was one of those rare doctors that really listens and answers your questions more fully than you’d expect. [...]

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More Muscle Means A Faster Metabolism

February 11, 2011

Many experts assume that the our metabolism – the chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to maintain life – increases very little from resistance training. Some fitness experts argue that building more muscle increases it as little as 1-5 calories per pound of muscle built.
While this seems to be a reasonable estimate for each [...]

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Neanderthals Ate Veggies

December 30, 2010

I read an article from the UK News yesterday which said that researchers had discovered through examining the fossil remains of Neanderthal teeth that Neanderthal man ate a wide range of plant matter.
But they also said something weird. They said:
Until now it was widely assumed that this subspecies of modern humans, who lived in [...]

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WebMD stands for Web Mindless Drivel

December 9, 2010

After attempting to relay the benefits of low to no carb eating to type II diabetics (T2D) on the American Diabetes Association (ADA) web forum to no avail, I decided instead to do some searching around the web. I wanted to see if any web-based organization stated that a high carbohydrate diet is a cause/risk [...]

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Paleolithic Diet Beats Mediterranean Diet For Satiety

December 2, 2010

A recent study indicates that a paleolithic diets trumps a Mediterranean diet for improvements in satiety. What this means, in essence, is that the total nutrient availability to the cells and resultant hormonal response is superior eating like a caveman as opposed to eating like a modern man – or woman.
The big difference was [...]

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Science as a Candle in the Dark

October 2, 2010

That of course is the subtitle of the late Carl Sagan’s 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. (Affiliate link.) A book I read on my honeymoon 14 years ago on the island of St. John. A book that changed the way I view everything.
Not many things in life affect [...]

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