A recent study suggests you may die from prolonged use of a low-carb diet. To be precise, you’ll have a greater chance of dying with a low-carb diet.
Low Carb Diets: A Fight To The Death
High Blood Pressure: An International Epidemic
Almost 1 billion people around the globe have high blood pressure. Even in some areas of Africa, it’s becoming a common problem.
Now the push is on to get world governments to fight high blood pressure — just as they’ve come together before to fight infectious diseases.
Milk: It Gives A Body Spots?
You may have heard that the ad campaigns suggesting milk can help you lose weight are ending. But did you hear about the spots?
A High Fat Diet Without Heart Disease
Is it really possible that humans could eat any kind of fat they want without risking heart disease? Just by removing a certain gene?
Weight Loss Surgery: How To Predict Your Risk Of Death
Duke University surgeon Eric DeMaria, MD, has developed a 5-step scoring system to predict your risk of dying from weight loss surgery.
A new study of over 4400 bariatric surgery patients supports his system.
To determine your score, the doctors add up the number of risk factors you have:
If Diets Don’t Work, Then How Do You Lose Weight?
The headline du jour on all the diet news stories is: “Diets Don’t Work.”
Instead, they say you should eat less and exercise more.
Huh? Isn’t that a diet?
High Blood Pressure: Is It All In Your Head?
New research suggests the heart isn’t responsible for high blood pressure. The brain is.
Are You Eating FDA-Approved Arsenic?
You gotta love the government’s strategy to help us “eat healthy.”
City after city in the U.S. has banned trans fats like they’re trying to protect us. Of course, they neglect to tell us that trans fats are being replaced mostly by a type of fat that could be even worse.
But I’ve already blogged about that in Ban Trans Fats, Increase Diabetes?
Clogging your arteries is so yesterday.
No, today I’d like to talk about the dunderheads who decided it was healthy to put arsenic in our food.
Can Obesity Make You Pregnant?
BMI Calculator: Calculate Your BMI Here
A BMI calculator uses your height and weight to indirectly measure your total body fat. Both adult men and women can use the same BMI calculator.
It’s a tool that can help you and your physician determine if your weight is healthy or putting you at risk for disease or even death.
On this page, you can use a free online BMI calculator from the CDC.