Tag: cholesterol

Dear Will,  Our son had his blood tested last week and has high cholesterol…so weird…he is only 10.  My wife is really good about providing a balanced, healthy diet to the kids (has a hard time with me) but he still appears to have some more specific dietary needs.   The...

I love Gary Taubes … he’s awesome. I’m prepping for my Saturday radio program and ran across his op ed in the NYTimes (here’s the link), which reviews how “the cholesterol hypothesis” happened. Does the cholesterol idea (lower cholesterol = lower heart attack risk) even work? This article makes the point that the...

Dr Clower was interviewed this morning on KDKA to speak to the healthy nature of eggs, and what do you do with them, now that Easter has passed and we have all these left over eggs, hanging about.  Just prepare to forget what everyone told you about how awful...

The old saying is, “If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail“. In other words … if you have a product, you want to apply that product to everything. Here are two examples: Bariatric surgeons want to apply gastric bypass and banding to children. Companies that make Lipitor,...

“In addition to being good for the heart, high levels of HDL … the ‘good’ cholesterol … may protect against Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday. (please share this with someone who happens to have both a heart AND a brain!!)  They found people over 65 who had the...

A study just pubbed in the Archives of Internal Medicine deals yet another blow to the blanket use of statins, and the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry to make them a public utility. Hot water, Cold Water, Electricity, Statin Pills. Here is the study, in case you need help...

Okay, I have to apologize for quoting the ever-perky Rachael Ray (EVOO!! :), happy face, smiley face with an i with a heart over it ;), ooh, another perky icon!) Enough of that. The bottom line for you and me is that we need this oil in our lives,...

Nuts rule. I could eat them on a boat, I could eat them with a goat, I could eat them in the rain, I could eat them on a train. Just make sure you get them only very lightly salted, and without any kind of crazy sugar or dye...

How to raise your “good cholesterol”? Eat fatty fish. Fatty? Isn’t that bad? Nope. Not any more. Of course, it used to be bad, but that was a sad fad. So don’t be a cad, you can even ask your dad, add fatty fish to your diet. What about...

This is from the Mayo Clinic — the 5 best foods to raise your good cholesterol. The old idea that you should lower all cholesterol, at all costs, was wrong and potentially harmful. Now we know that this HDL cholesterol actually prevents heart disease, and should be raised as...

(Reuters) – People using cholesterol-lowering statins — like Lipitor — have a higher risks of liver dysfunction, kidney failure, muscle weakness and cataracts and such side effects of the drug should be closely tracked, doctors said on Friday. Great. But I want you to take a look at OUR...

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