DR. MIRKIN: “DON’T TELL ME TO STOP RIDING!”
An editorial in the January 2013 British medical journal, Heart, states that “Running too fast, too far, and for too many years may speed one’s progress toward the finish line of life.”
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VITAMIN D AND HEART ATTACKS
People with diabetes are at very high risk for heart attacks, and lack of vitamin D appears to be a major risk factor.
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Nov 27, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
SPORTS DRINKS MAKE YOU FATTER THAN SUGARED DRINKS
All sugared drinks are fattening. Fruit juice is no less fattening than sodas or sports drinks. When people believe that a drink is healthful, they will consume more.
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Sep 27, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
DR. MIRKIN ON VEGGIE DIETS
A diet of fruits, vegetables and nuts lowers the bad LDL cholesterol in two weeks by 33 percent! Far more than the same diet with added grains and low fat diary (23 percent), and even more than by the National Cholesterol Therapeutic Step-2 diet recommended by doctors for people with high cholesterol (7 percent). Even [...]
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Aug 23, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
DIABETIC WITH A BIG BELLY? DANGER!
Obesity Does Not Protect Diabetics By GABE MIRKIN, M.D. This week, a study showed that people who have normal weight at the time of their diagnosis of diabetes are twice as likely to die over the next 10 to 30 years as those who are overweight at the time of diagnosis (Journal of the American [...]
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DR. MIRKIN: HFCS IS JUST LIKE SUGAR (???)
Original article written by Dr. Mirkin, MD A group of sugar farmers and refiners are suing corn processors and a lobbying group for advertising that High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is as healthful as sugar (Associated Press, September 13, 2011). The granulated table sugar that you buy in the store comes from sugar cane or [...]
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Jul 28, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
DR. MIRKIN — EXERCISE KEEPS YOU YOUNG
Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has shown that exercise prevents aging in mice programmed to grow old rapidly (The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 22, 2010). The exercising mice did not have the expected shrinkage with aging of their brains, hearts, muscles, skin, hair, ovaries, testicles, spleen, kidneys, [...]
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Jul 06, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Hey, Dr. Mirkin, IS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP BAD?
Article by Dr. Mirkin: Sixty percent of North Americans believe that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is more unhealthful than other sugars, even though the number of calories, the amount of fructose and the sweetness is virtually the same as table sugar. They think incorrectly that HFCS-sweetened drinks cause obesity more than drinks sweetened with [...]
