An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey
Ms. Winfrey,
Can you lose weight while continuing to consume bread and other products made with wheat flour and grains? You absolutely can—though it is quite difficult physically and emotionally, requiring monumental willpower, as you already know. But I fear that you have overlooked crucial issues in your campaign for Weight Watchers and the exoneration of bread. You have, unfortunately, propagated some destructive misconceptions. And the people who you have hurt the most I suspect are the people who you would have preferred to help the most.
Losing weight by avoiding processed food products made with wheat and rel...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 27, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bread gluten grains oprah Weight Loss weight watchers Source Type: blogs
Tipping the scales: why preventing obesity makes economic sense
This report, written with Cancer Research UK, finds that rising rates of obesity and overweight could lead to 700,000 new cancer cases in the UK, as well as millions of new cases of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke. This would cost the NHS an additional £2.5 billion a year by 2035 over and above what is already spent on obesity related disease. However, the study shows that small changes can have dramatic impacts - for example, a one per cent reduction in the number of overweight or obese people every year could prevent more than 64,000 cancer cases over the next 20 years and save the NHS £300 million i...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 7, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Yet More Evidence for Long-Term CMV Infection to Increase Disease and Mortality in Old Age
A few weeks ago I pointed out recent study data from a German population on cytomegalovirus (CMV) and its role in immune aging. Today I'll note a companion study of a different population of older people that focuses more on the relationship between CMV and mortality. It is the story you might expect if you've been reading on this topic for any great length of time, as testing positive for CMV infection is here found to be associated with a significantly greater rate of age-related disease and mortality. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a pervasive herpesvirus that, like its peers, cannot be effectively cleared from the body by th...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Eyes On The Final Prize: Integrating Services To Transform Global Health
As 2015 draws to a close, the global health community is examining the strides that have been made and how we can transform this progress into further gains across the public health spectrum.
The United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 include SDG 3, a holistic goal for public health that aims to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. It is with the backdrop of this collaborative, interconnected development landscape that two important meetings take place in Japan this week.
On December 16, a symposium on universal health care will bring together global leaders for a dial...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 17, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric Goosby Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Organization and Delivery Public Health HIV/AIDS Japan malaria sustainable development goals TB United Nations universal health care Source Type: blogs
A Few Recent Research Results on Fitness, Exercise, and Age-Related Decline
It is no big secret that regular exercise and greater fitness leads to better health and a longer life expectancy, though it remains uncertain as to where the point of greatest benefit lies. What is the dose-response curve for exercise? How does it vary by circumstances and type of exercise? Given the glacial pace of demographic studies, I fully expect good answers to those questions, with robust data behind them, to arrive only decades from now, after the point at which the first rejuvenation therapies exist. What we know today about exercise and aging, gathered from large long-running studies of past decades, is but an o...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 26, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Sexism in Science: Bias Beyond the Lab
CONCLUSION
There’s no doubt that we’ve come far in this field and an improved concentration on exploring sex-based biology has resulted in a better understanding of sex differences–but we need to continue to such efforts in order to promote good health for all men and women. Clinical trials need to be designed to ensure not only the inclusion of, but also the recognition of their differences. Working toward inclusivity of medical research will benefit us all by increasing our understanding of what causes various illnesses and how to treat them.
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Society for Women’s Health Research: History
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Women's Health Source Type: blogs
No blood sugar rollercoasters!
Living the Wheat Belly lifestyle means having no wild fluctuations in blood sugar.
Take a look at the curves above on the graph. The red curve shows the typical blood sugar rises in a young, slender, non-diabetic person who includes grains and sugars in their diet. While the after-meal peaks shown only reach 110-120 mg/dl, they can go much higher, e.g.,f 180-200 mg/dl, in otherwise healthy people. Recall that high blood sugars oblige high blood insulin that causes weight gain in visceral fat, distortions of hormones (e.g., rise in testosterone in females with polycystic ovarian syndrome), and resistance to insulin that, ov...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 14, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar carbohydrates carbs diabetes gluten grains Source Type: blogs
You may be only DAYS away from a health transformation
Abigail shared her early experience starting the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“I’m 7 days strong and down 8.4 pounds as of my 5th day [top photo]. I’m a full-blown Wheat Belly freak now and I’m loving every minute.”
Abigail is down more than a pound a day, facial edema and redness receding rapidly and dramatically—reflecting that inflammation and inflammatory edema (water-retention) are staging a rapid retreat. Yes, Abigail will lose inches off her waist and other areas, dropping many dress sizes over the next few months. But it’s inflammation and inflammatory edema dissolving away that...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 4, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories edema facial change gluten grains Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Study Suggests More Moderate Exercise is Better
Researchers here crunch the numbers to suggest that people who exercise for longer are better off in terms of risk of suffering age-related cardiovascular disease. One of the emerging themes in epidemiology in recent years is an attempt to pin down the dose-response curve for exercise. How is long term health and life expectancy affected for different levels of exercise, and do these differences reflect correlation or causation? Is it a matter of people obtaining health benefits through exercise or a matter of more healthy people tending to exercise more? These are hard questions to answer for human populations, but as tec...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 7, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Lose inflammation, look younger
We’ve lately been discussing how the Wheat Belly lifestyle slows the phenomena underlying the aging process and yields reversals in appearance that help people look younger, sometimes dramatically so. Lisa shared her Wheat Belly anti-aging photos and experience:
Left photo: “Beginning my Wheat Belly journey. Size 20. Bloated, unhealthy and very sick.”
Middle photo: “Sept, 2014. Size 10.”
Right photo: “Sept, 2015. Size 6 and I will be 47 yrs old in 2 weeks.”
“I look as if I were years younger as the weight and inflammation fell away. I am so happy living this lifestyle and hop...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 27, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories facial change gluten grains Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Evidence for decline in coronary mortality in the United States
Data published in the current issue of Circulation [1] shows that coronary heart disease mortality has declined in the United States from 1979 through 2011. This is consistent with the dramatic fall in coronary mortality in the Western world over the past four decades. But concern has been raised over the lack of improvement in young women in the nineteen nineties and only a once percent decline since 2000. This would mean that cardiovascular risk profile of young women would have worsened disproportionately in recent decades.
Reference
Wilmot KA, O’Flaherty M, Capewell S, Ford ES, Vaccarino V. Coronary Heart Diseas...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Physical activity strategy for the WHO European Region 2016–2025
World Health Organization (WHO) - WHO estimates indicate that, in Europe, more than one third of adults and two thirds of adolescents are insufficiently active. Worldwide, physical inactivity causes 6–10% of cases of coronary heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer and 9% of premature mortality. The aim of this strategy is to inspire governments and stakeholders to work towards increasing levels of physical activity.
Strategy
Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 16, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
The Wheat Belly lifestyle BEGAN with heart health
Debbie posted this comment on the Wheat Belly Facebook page:
“I posted a few weeks back about our scare from our primary care doctor. My husband had a calcium score of 1200. We panicked! Messaged Dr. Davis and went the next day to a cardio doctor and had a stress test, ultrasound, and blood test (inflammatory markers). Got him on recommended supplements per Dr Davis.
“Latest update: Cardio doctor says, being as you started ‘Wheat Belly’ back in October, 2014, your score could have been higher and already started to improve, we don’t know. What we DO know is, because of this new way of eating,...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 15, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle calcium score cholesterol fish oil gluten grains heart disease iodine Thyroid vitamin D Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Omics Data in Aging: the Rat Hole of Metabolism Runs Very Deep Indeed
Here I'll point out a review paper on the "omics," the younger fields of the life sciences, including genomics, proteomics, and so forth, and their role in aging research. These fields encompass the study of biological molecules and their roles in cellular metabolism and tissue function, broken down by type and class. The study of genes, the study of proteins, the study of proteins only applicable to the immune system, the study of proteins involved in transcription, and many more divisions besides. There are now dozens of omics fields, and they continue to proliferate and specialize, this growth a reflection of the accele...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 9, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
The fatal folly of low-fat diets
Look for dietary advice from the likes of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Dietary Guidelines for Americans, or just any other “official” source of dietary advice, and you will see a striking uniformity in the details: reduce dietary cholesterol; reduced total and saturated fat intake; increase grain consumption, preferably whole grains; sugar and soft drinks in moderation, don’t sweat the fructose.
It is now clear that such advice was based on a handful o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains low-carb low-fat Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
