Tag Archives: heart disease
Metformin May Prevent Cancer and Heart Trouble
David Spero at Diabetes Self-Management has an interesting article about how metformin may prevent cancer and heart disease, and slow the aging process. Metformin is the usual first drug of choice for type 2 diabetes. Steve Parker, M.D.
Filed under Diabetes Complications, Drugs for Diabetes
Got Spare Time?: Track Your Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acid Consumption
One of the major changes in the Western diet over the last century has been the increase in our consumption of omega-6 fatty acids, primarily in the form of industrial seed oils. Examples include oils derived from soybeens, corn, and … Continue reading
Filed under cancer, coronary heart disease, Fat in Diet
Is Grape Seed Extract as Healthful as Wine?
Patients ask me periodically if grape seed extract provides the same health benefit as judicious red wine. Nobody knows with certainty. The health benefits of red wine may be due to resveratrol. Grape seed extract contains potentially healthy antioxidants called … Continue reading
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WHY Is the Mediterranean Diet So Healthy?
I’ve found that nearly everbody’s eyes glaze over if I try to explain how, physiologically, the Mediterranean diet promotes health and longevity. Below are some of the boring details, for posterity’s sake, mostly from my 2007 book, The Advanced Mediterranean Diet: … Continue reading
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Waist-Hip Ratio: How to Determine, and What It Means
A comment left under my recent post on healthy weight ranges reminded me about the waist-hip ratio. The risk of heart and vascular disease is more closely linked to distribution of excess fat than with degree of obesity as measured by overall … Continue reading
Filed under Overweight and Obesity
Finally Settled: Alcohol Consumption Linked to Lower Rates of Death and Heart Attack
Canadian and U.S. researchers report that moderate alcohol consumption seems to reduce 1) the incidence of coronary heart disease, 2) deaths from coronary heart disease, and 3) deaths from all causes. Reduction of death from all causes is a good counter-argument … Continue reading
Filed under Alcohol, coronary heart disease
Heart Patients: Mediterranean Diet to the Rescue!
The Mediterranean diet preserves heart muscle performance and reduces future heart disease events, according to Greek researchers reporting in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, May 19, 2010. Reuters and other news services have covered the story. The Mediterranean diet … Continue reading
Origins and Definition of the Mediterranean Diet
ORIGINS It all starts with Ancel Keys. Keys was the leader of the team who put together the Seven Countries Study, which seemed to demonstrate lower rates of coronary heart disease in countries consuming less saturated fat. [Coronary heart disease … Continue reading
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Pilot Study: Paleo Diet Is More Satiating Than Mediterranean-Style
Swedish researchers reported recently that a Paleolithic diet was more satiating than a Mediterranean-style diet, when compared on a calorie-for-calorie basis in heart patients. Both groups of study subjects reported equal degrees of satiety, but the paleo dieters ended up … Continue reading
Filed under coronary heart disease, Mediterranean Diet
