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Simple and Mind-boggling ...

7/3/2012

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I am fascinated by our food culture and how we approach health and health care. I agree with the Forks Over Knives observation related to our new health (disease) care law. 

The FOK folks promote a vegan lifestyle. As I've stated before, I am not a vegan, however, I certainly am plant strong. And, this time of year, many meals come from my garden.
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Great Conversation about Living a Healthy Lifestyle

6/26/2012

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Life without Lipitor ...

3/25/2012

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One of my many websites is: LifeWithoutLipitor.com. I have that website because much of my research has led to the conclusion that we are over-prescribed statins. 

In a recent article, cardiologist, Dr. Eric Topol's briefly and to the point explains:

Evidence-based medicine is a fancy buzz term. You've got people who draw out guidelines from shaky data and tell the world this is the way it's got to be. A great example is statins. The medicine community promotes them like crazy. But for people without previous heart disease only one in a 100 people will benefit in terms of preventing heart disease. And then you have the FDA issuing a warning that taking statins can increase the risk of diabetes, which is at least 1 in 200 for the more potent statins. For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes. What kind of trade off is that? We've got to get more intelligent about the individual's true benefit to risk story.

Source: Destroying Medicine to Rebuild It

Here's another good site that explains ... The NNT. NNT stands for Number Needed to Treat.
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John Mackey ... CEO, Whole Foods

12/15/2011

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Interesting video ... We both have similar health goals ... No meds! I'm 56 and he's 58. A recent New York Times article stated: The average adult over age 55 juggles six to eight medications daily.

The good news: It's not that difficult to regain good health.                                                              
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Watch 9 1/2 Minutes about 23 1/2 Hours ...

12/9/2011

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Very interesting video about health and exercise.

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Dr. Joel Fuhrman Discusses Health Issues

6/8/2011

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If your health is important to you, you will want to listen to Dr. Fuhrman's radio interviews. He addresses many health issues that confront Americans.

Healthy Bones for Life - Dr. John Abramson - Author Overdosed America (after listening to this interview, I'm more convinced than ever to avoid meds) - After listening to this interview, I recommend listening to this NPR report about Osteopenia (How a Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription).

Preventing Sarcopenia: the Major Cause of Age-Related Disabilities (after listening to this interview, I'm more convinced than ever to continue strength straining)

Don’t Control Your Diabetes – Get Rid of It!

Eat to Live the Basics

Nobody Should Die of Heart Disease

How to Get Off Blood Pressure Medicine

Healthy to 100
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The U.S. Health System

6/1/2011

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A truly fascinating article.

This is just one snippet: Twenty years from now, the maturation of the baby boom generation will be at flood tide. We will have gone from 40 million Americans over the age of 65 in 2009 to 70 million in 2030. This will put enormous pressure on the health care system, regardless of whether Obama's reform efforts, or even Paul Ryan's, prove successful. The chronic diseases of the elderly will be the front line. Because we cannot cure those diseases at present, nor reasonably hope for cures over the next few decades, the best we will be able to do in many cases, especially those of the elderly and frail, is extend people's lives for a relatively short period of time — at considerable expense and often while causing serious suffering to the person in question.
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Health/Disease Risk Factors

4/25/2011

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I'm always skeptical of statistics, however, this should give a "ballpark" idea about health/disease risk factors. 

In fact, your major risk factor for death from a preventable disease is not the quality of your health care (about 10 percent of your risk), your social circumstances (about 15 percent) or even your genetic makeup (about 30 percent). Your single biggest risk is your own behavior (40 percent).

Source: Healthy Aging: A Cheat Sheet
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The Greatest Medicine of All is to Teach People How Not to Need It

4/4/2011

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That's a mouthful, however, at Kirk Hamilton's website: Prescription 2000, you will find a rich array of interviews with many experts. 

Here are some that I have found very interesting:
  1. Got Kids? Listen to the interview with Robyn O'Brien. Robyn is your advocate.
  2. Got balls? Listen to this informative interview about prostrate cancer? This is a must-listen for all men.
  3. Live in America? Listen to Jean Buzby. She is with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. A whole lot of interesting information that you will not hear anywhere else.
Here's a tip: If you have a smartphone, plug in the headphones and listen at your leisure -- in the car, at the airport or any other convenient time. Enjoy.
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The Main Street Diet is the Cause of Obesity and Many Health Problems

3/30/2011

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The American diet is a catastrophe. We don’t have a health care crisis. We have a food crisis. 75% of our health care costs are spent on chronic disease linked to the diet…and that is bankrupting us. - Michael Pollan

What is the Main Street Diet? Let me briefly explain. Here's a tour of "my" Main Street.
  1. 13 Fast Food Restaurants
  2. 7 Gas Stations ... upon entering the convenience store, I am confronted with a vast array of junk food.
  3. Now let's do a few errands: PetSmart, OfficeMax, Home Depot, FedEx, and a few other stores  - Upon checkout, each one of these offers an enormous amount of candy and soda.
  4. On "my" Main Street, there are three, yes three, CVS pharmacies (within a mile of each other). Upon entering, I am not sure if I have entered a candy store or a drug store.
Welcome to America's Main Street. 

Dr. William Castelli (former director of the Framingham Heart Study) states: "The American diet is the worst diet you could possibly eat anywhere in the world."

Of course, many people will state: "You don't have to eat the food that is available on Main Street." Yes, this is true. However, we consider Main Street America to be normal. It is not. It has led to a toxic food environment. 

The choice is yours: Continue consuming these foods or make a change. You can learn how to make simple changes by purchasing Feed Your Head or attending one of my presentations.

Dr. David Kessler, former chairman of the FDA and author of The End of Overeating, provides a great explanation.

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The church on my Main Street realizes there's a problem. Sunday's sermon is about the obesity epidemic. Or, maybe they're promoting the new Whole Foods on my Main Street.
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The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

3/6/2011

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David Murdoch ... He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he can’t, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last quarter century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes can, and will, ward off major disease and minor ailment alike.

Read more.
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From the Article: America: A Big, Fat, Stupid Nation

11/19/2010

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This article is from the Huffington Post.

While I do not agree with the entire article, I do agree with this statement: "Americans (still) rule the world. They can stroll on the moon, influence global diplomacy, finance unstable countries around the world…yet they cannot keep their own people relatively healthy? Of course they could, if it were actually desired. Unfortunately, for the world’s most powerful companies, an unhealthy America is, perversely, a very profitable America."

On the main street near my home, there's a tremendous amount of junk food and fast food available. As well, there are three CVS pharmacies on that same strip ... about two miles. Yes, crap food delivers patients to big pharma. No doubt about it. 

During this time of thanks, I am thankful that I have avoided the medical industrial complex.
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Nutty for Nutrition

10/15/2010

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Once in a while, a brief and insightful article is written. Here's one by Robin Quivers about the link between food and health. The title: Nutty for Nutrition.
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Meatless Mondays!

5/10/2010

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Yes, there is a website for everything. Backed by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, here's what this one is all about:

Going meatless once a week may reduce your risk of chronic preventable conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. It can also help reduce your carbon footprint and save precious resources like fresh water and fossil fuel.

LIMIT CANCER RISK: Hundreds of studies suggest that diets high in fruits and vegetables may reduce cancer risk. Both red and processed meat consumption are associated with colon cancer.

REDUCE HEART DISEASE: Recent data from a Harvard University study found that replacing saturated fat-rich foods (for example, meat and full fat dairy) with foods that are rich in polyunsaturated fat (for example, vegetable oils, nuts and seeds) reduces the risk of heart disease by 19%

FIGHT DIABETES: Research suggests that higher consumption of red and processed meat increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.

CURB OBESITY: People on low-meat or vegetarian diets have significantly lower body weights and body mass indices. A plant-based diet is a great source of fiber (absent in animal products). This makes you feel full with fewer calories, ie. lower calorie intake and less overeating. Research has found that eating more plant foods and less animal products may help individuals control their weight.

LIVE LONGER: Red and processed meat consumption is associated with modest increases in total mortality, cancer mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality.

IMPROVE YOUR DIET. Consuming beans or peas results in higher intakes of fiber, protein, folate, zinc, iron and magnesium with lower intakes of saturated fat and total fat.
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The Secret of Living Longer

4/21/2010

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National Geographic has an interesting piece about this. It reviewed three areas in the world where people live long and productive lives. Check it out.
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Forks Over Knives . . . The Movie

3/1/2010

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These two doctors were very important in my discoveries and findings . . . Drs. Caldwell Esselstyn and Colin Campbell.  Dr. Esselstyn led me to believe that I could get my total cholesterol much lower via proper eating. It worked! Here are the results.

Watch the trailer to the movie Forks Over Knives.
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