One of the variables hardest to study in a diet is sustainability: many different eating plans result in short-term weight loss, but which can keep you satisfied for the long haul? Recent studies, including this one, have found a Paleo Diet superior to other options in the treatment of type 2 diabetics. On the Paleo Diet, diabetics lose more weight and improve their laboratory tests as well.
What Is Known About HypertensionHealthy Steps: Hypertension—First StepsHealthy Steps: Hypertension—Full Program You were feeling just fine, not even thinking when the dentist offered to check your blood pressure, obviously not the cause of your visit. Imagine everyone’s surprise when the number came out definitely high: 160/100. Not just a little high, but getting into the […]
Great news! First of all, quoting from the articleat Huffington Post, “while the demand for sustainable meat is booming, the industry is having difficulty keeping up.” What a wonderful difficulty to have.
An Open Letter to the Weston A. Price and Paleo Communities:
Researcher Susan E. Swithers has written in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism an attention-getting editorial reviewing the mounting evidence that frequent diet-sugar consumers may also be at risk for all the hazards of excess sugar consumption: weight gain, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.
When a serious group of researchers performs a meta-analysis of many already existing studies, screening them for quality and assessing the strength of their collective findings, I am always eager to see their findings.
A wonderful study by Guasch-Ferre and colleagues in Spain has evaluated the effect of nut consumption on mortality, including deaths from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality.
When folks tell me they’re stressed, or that they wake frequently in the wee morning hours, I wonder if they aren’t firing up their adrenal glands a little too early for the day’s work. While we arrange for testing of that hypothesis, my choice of supplement – tried and true with many patients – is Integrative Therapeutics Cortisol Manager.
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There is a world of difference between the opinions of conventional physicians and integrative physicians when it comes to the subject of our adrenal glands. In medical school I received excellent instruction on the anatomy and physiology (A&P) and healthy functioning of the adrenal glands. In case you skipped that lecture, they are small glands that sit atop our kidneys and are divided into two hormone-producing regions.