DR. MERCOLA ON EXERCISE AND DIET By Dr. Mercola One of my mentors, Jack La Lanne, who died January 23, 2011 at the age of 96, once said, “Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.” I believe there is a lot of truth to that statement. Exercise [...]
What’s Wrong with the U.S. Dietary Guidelines? By Dr Gabe Mirkin Walter Willett, the chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard, is the most published nutritionist in the world. He thinks that the U.S. Dietary Guidelines are flawed because they cater to large food-selling companies (New England Journal of Medicine– October 27, 2011) North [...]
(Reuters) – The ranks of the nation’s oldest residents are growing quickly now that people who reach age 90 are expected to live longer than ever before, according to a study released on Thursday. The number of Americans age 90 and older nearly tripled in the past three decades, from 720,000 in 1980 to the [...]
Original article by Dr. Mercola By eating foods that are concordant with your genetic ancestry, you can avoid many of the diseases associated with our modern diet, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Such a diet focuses primarily on a wide variety of raw, whole vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots and meat Overeating and excess weight [...]
Breast Cancer Risk Rises With Moderate Use of Alcohol, Researchers Say By Nicole Ostrow, from Bloomberg A daily drink, whether it’s red wine, beer or liquor, may increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer, according to a study that suggests moderate drinking has similar ties to the disease as heavy alcohol consumption. The study, which [...]
Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Not Prevent Heart Attacks By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. For more than 50 years, medical journals have published studies showing that omega-3 fatty acids in fish help prevent heart attacks. However, last year, three major studies showed that omega-3 fatty acids do not prevent fatal heart attacks, and a recent review of [...]
All across the world today, millions of depressed people are being treated by doctors who are all supplying the same group of pills. These pills do only one thing… Raise the level of Serotonin in the blood stream. WHAT IS SEROTONIN? Serotonin is a simple molecule which activates nerves. It is part of the system [...]
The advice given in this article is taken from a large medical study controlled by a group of Medical Researchers led by Martin O’Donnel, M.D., of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was published on June 18, 2010, in LANCET, the famous British medical journal. The study covered 3000 patients from 22 countries around the [...]
