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"Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Eicosanoids and Ischemic Heart Disease, Part II Here's where it gets more complicated and more interesting. The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 matters, but so does the total amount of each. This is a graph from a 1992 paper by Dr. Lands: In sum, this suggests that the single best way to avoid a heart attack is to reduce omega-6 consumption and ensure an adequate source of omega-3. The lower the omega-6, the less the omega-3 matters. This is a nice theory, but where's the direct evidence? In the next post, I'll discuss the controlled trial that proved this concept once and for all: the Lyon diet-heart trial.

Modulation of inflammation in brain: a matter of fat. Farooqui AA, Horrocks LA, Farooqui T. J Neurochem. 2007 May;101(3):577-99. Epub 2007 Jan 25. Review. PMID: 17257165 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.04371.x

No use beating oneself up over a 'moment of weakness'. It's just a matter of sweating off the excess calories after. ; )

Recognizing that you are now overweight or perhaps over weight is actually a tough course of action. It raises unlikable things like thinking how you can have health issues that can effect in passing away. Nonetheless, it's a vital matter to take into account in order to slim down and turn into much healthier. The ideas in the report listed below will help you accomplish simply that! Green tea is fantastic for improving your metabolic process and increasing your weight reduction. Beverage it warm or iced, and set in a tiny bee honey should you need sweetener. Black herbal tea is also advantageous. Green tea extract is high in vitamin antioxidants. These will help you to eradicate toxic compounds in the system and keep the invulnerability process powerful. Attempt eating whipped butter. Many persons favor never to use a lot less butter or remove butter off their diet plan. They like the flavour too much to eliminate it. Nonetheless, there exists a more healthy solution that is not going to reduce flavour. As an alternative, change your butter to whipped. It simply has about half the energy. Target for goals that are focused on trying to dress in a particular clothing dimension instead of a objective excess weight objective. Fully ignore your scale. Dumbbells are often very diverse between 2 people. Consequently goal weight loads will vary at the same period. As a result seeking to focus on a certain weight challenging. More exactly, work with appropriate to your goal apparel size. There are a quantity of excellent aerobic work out options in addition to working. For those who have awful important joints or greater age, swimming is a great alternative for losing weight and in addition it helps you to firm up your body. Dance classes are yet another fantastic solution to help you slim down. Though it appears everybody loves fried potatoes, it might wreck chaos on the diet regime. These are normally a wonderful pitfall for a lot of that want to lose weigh

If wheat is so bad, what about all the other grains? First of all, I demonize wheat because of its top-of-the-list role in triggering: --Appetite--Wheat increases hunger dramatically --Insulin --Blood sugar--Wheat is worse than table sugar in triggering a rapid, large rise in blood sugar --Triglycerides --Small LDL particles--the number one cause for heart disease in the U.S. --Reduced HDL --Diabetes --Autoimmune diseases--Most notably celiac disease and thyroiditis. Most other "healthy, whole grains" aren't quite as bad. It's a matter of degree.

What is C-reactive protein (CRP)? It is a blood-borne protein that originates in the liver and serves as an index of the body's inflammatory state. It is triggered by yet another inflammatory signal molecule, interleukin-6. What triggers this cascade of inflammatory markers? Any inflammatory stimulus, such as being overweight, lack of exercise, vitamin D deficiency, viral illness no matter how trivial, any inflammatory disease like arthritis, small LDL, high triglycerides, poor diet rich in processed foods, resistance to insulin, any injury, incipient diabetes, hidden cancer, lack of education (no kidding), etc.

Weight Loss Diet Watch Blog provides practical tips for losing weight. Get information on various diet tips, weight loss programs, healthy eating, lowering cholesterol, diet supplements, natural weight loss plans, and also on various diet plans such as Atkins diet, South beach diet, Cabbage soup diet, etc.

Choose healthy fats, limit saturated fat, and avoid trans fat.\n\nThe total amount of fat you eat, whether high or low, isn't really linked with disease. What really matters is the type of fat you eat.\n

Nutrients, endpoints, and the problem of proof. Heaney RP. 2008 W. O. Atwater Memorial Lecture J Nutr. 2008 Sep;138(9):1591-5. PMID: 18716155 To sum up, I think that there would be general agreement to the effect that nutrition is important, despite the fact that the still growing number of failed trials of individual nutrients might suggest that no nutrient actually made much of a difference, a conclusion that is absurd on its face and ought to have alerted us to the possibility that there was something wrong with how we were investigating the matter. To provide the proof needed to sustain revised intake recommendations, we shall have to find a design better suited to nutrients than the randomized controlled trial as currently implemented, and we need to develop a series of global indices, nutrient by nutrient, which better capture the polyvalent nature of most nutrients. Perhaps it would be useful for the ASN, in collaboration with concerned governmental entities such as the USDA, to convene a workshop to address these structural issues. Such deliberation may well be arduous and frustrating, but it is terribly important and, in my view, well worth the effort.

The Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) is preparing a vitamin D policy paper it hopes can influence European national associations considering vitamin D medical recommendations. PA International Foundation is hosting an event on the topic in Bruges, Belgium, on October 6, its 14th workshop to be held on the matter. The CPME draft paper will be presented at the convention attended by doctors, scientists, patient groups, media representatives and politicians.

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Fish consumption and risk of subclinical brain abnormalities on MRI in older adults. Virtanen JK, Siscovick DS, Longstreth WT Jr, Kuller LH, Mozaffarian D. Neurology. 2008 Aug 5;71(6):439-46. PMID: 18678827 doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000324414.12665.b0 Conclusions: Among older adults, modest consumption of tuna/other fish, but not fried fish, was associated with lower prevalence of subclinical infarcts and white matter abnormalities on MRI examinations. Our results add to prior evidence that suggest that dietary intake of fish with higher eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid content, and not fried fish intake, may have clinically important health benefits

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"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who want to maintain a healthy weight over time shouldn't obsess about their fat intake, new research shows. The percentage of calories that a person got from fat, as opposed to protein or carbohydrates, had nothing to do with how much weight they gained in the coming years, the research team found. The kinds of fat they ate didn't matter either, Dr. Nita Forouhi of the Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK and her colleagues found. The findings, Forouhi noted in an email to Reuters Health, show that "it is more important to aim for a healthy lifestyle including a balanced healthy diet and regular physical activity, than to focus on fat intake alone as a factor for weight gain.""

"Should you eat low carbohydrate and high saturated fat, or high carbohydrate and low fat, that is the question? This question is causing a tremendous back and forth in the medical and nutrition industry. It is unbelievable that the medical profession has not at least thoroughly tested the question. How is it that a magnificent experiment had been going on for 2.5 million years, the hunter gatherer Paleolithic life. This continued up to and until about about 10,000 years ago, with the advent of agriculture. After that time is when the diseases of the metabolic syndrome started to appear. This information is a matter of history. If a layman like me can recognize the validity of an experiment that continued for 2,5 million years, and produced healthy individuals, relative to the diseases of the metabolic syndrome, such as: obesity, diabetes type 2, cardiovascular disease and stroke, and some cancers to name just a few, then how is it, that the consensus opinion of the medical profession and nutritionists think that the hunter gatherer lifestyle of our ancient ancestors is unhealthful or dangerous? The consensus opinion says that low fat (trim all visible fat from the animal protein) and high carbohydrate food is the "healthy eating" choice for us. I personally know that instead of being healthy,it is unhealthy, because by following my doctors advice over the last 50 years many of the above mentioned diseases started to appear on my charts. "

After much consideration into this blog's new name in the light of my new direction, the decision has been made. "Free the Animal" Why? First, if you read that post linked above, you know that my health and fitness approach is perfectly in harmony with my philosophical approach; and hence, my approach to politics and all that. In other words, a big part of the reason I have discovered something that truly works; and moreover, is the simplest, most natural, downright fun way of living: that gets you lean and fit; gets you feeling and sleeping great; and gets you looking years and years younger is precisely because I don't believe in the gods of heaven or earth, we evolved over millions of years and are conditioned by survival pressures that in no way include all vegetable diets, gorging on bottled water all day, eating ground grass seeds (grains and derivatives) running on a treadmill or elliptical, or involving ourselves in social schemes and cons that leave us powerless, with no influence, and at the mercy of the crowd and collective (the cannibal pot). Some have a lot of the pieces and do good work. I have all of the major pieces, though acquiring all of the specifics is a lifelong and never-ending journey of discovery. I will focus on essentials and specifics that really matter to me and others living a normal life in pursuit of survival, prosperity and happiness. I will point to other sources that provide more depth in specific areas that are of interest to only some

It's indeed an open secret that quite a lot of ladies are having difficulties in getting pregnant and they're simply at loss in regards to the situation. It doesn't matter what they fight, things simply do not get better and they're fast running out of options. Nonetheless, if you happen to belong to this group of people, you should take consolation in realizing that you are not unique. Additionally, do not put the complete blame on yourself because most of the time, there are biological issues which you simply are powerless about and have no control over. Fortuitously, there are particular methods which are known solely to very few people who could assist you to in getting pregnant. Keep on reading to unearth them in case you are serious about conceiving.

Given the fact that I was born in Spain, I may sound kind of bias when I talk about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, but the truth of the matter is that I have seen the benefits of following this diet with my own eyes. In fact, not only I have seen its advantages; I have experienced them.