Vegan Overtakes Vegetarian as Doctors, Midwives, Dietitians and Nutritionists Urged to Seek Facts
World Vegetarian And Vegan News: Vegan Overtakes Vegetarian as Doctors, Midwives, Dietitians and Nutritionists Urged to Seek FactsGoogle Trends reveals interest in vegan diets is about to overtake interest in vegetarian diets as evidence based science and research prevailsThis potentially provokes a problem for the few health professionals who still discourage people from adopting vegan diets risking falling foul of best practice and due diligence guidelines.Nutritionists London (Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News)
Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - September 28, 2015 Category: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair
The food we eat serves many purposes. It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table. It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level. In fact, the latest research from the field of nutrigenomics[1], reve...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Blow your HDL through the roof
The HDL cholesterol value is one of the four values on any conventional lipid/cholesterol panel, along with total cholesterol, triglycerides, and calculated LDL cholesterol (what I call “fictitious” LDL because of its incredible inaccuracy when compared to superior measures).
The HDL cholesterol value has some unique characteristics not shared by the others, however, and can serve as an index of overall health. Very high HDL values, for instance, are associated with extreme longevity. Centenarians typically have values of 90 mg/dl or higher. Higher HDLs are also associated with less risk for diabetes, hypertens...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 29, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle fish oil HDL longevity omega-3 saturated fat vitamin D Source Type: blogs
Which is More Uncomfortable: The Colonoscopy or Treatment for Colon Cancer?
Michelle was a healthy, active 47 year old. She tried to eat right and she exercised. It looked like the hard work was paying off: no health issues and lots of energy. Her work in the healthcare field motivated her to see her doctors regularly for checkups, to get mammograms and to have her blood work done annually. She knew she was getting close to the magical age of 50 and that soon she would need to get a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. Since she had no family history of the disease she wasn’t worried. She felt certain that, just as all her previous testing had come back normal, this one would too.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
What Doctors Should – and Should Not – Say to Obese Patients
Below a remarkably candid and compelling essay by Emma Lewis titled “Why there’s no point in telling me to lose weight. ” It originally appeared in the January 2015 issue of BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal). Hat-tip to Helen Haskell, president and founder of Mothers Against Medical Error, who sent me Lewis’ piece.
In her editorial (cross-posted below), Lewis explains why she has “opted out” of the “weight-loss game.” She confides that she has been “fat” since she was a child. She still remembers the humiliations, which continue to this day– especially when she visits a primary care d...
Source: Health Beat - February 22, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Blaming Dieting counterproductive Doctors exercise Lecturing obesity Obesity and causes Obseity Shaming Uncategorized BMJ Emma Lewis Why There Is No Point to Telling Me to Lose Weight Source Type: blogs
What Doctors Should– and Should Not– Say to Obese Patients
Below a remarkably candid and compelling essay by Emma Lewis titled “Why there’s no point in telling me to lose weight. ” It originally appeared in the January 2015 issue of BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal). Hat-tip to Helen Haskell, president and founder of Mothers Against Medical Error, who sent me Lewis’ piece.
In her editorial (cross-posted below), Lewis explains why she has “opted out” of the “weight-loss game.” She confides that she has been “fat” since she was a child. She still remembers the humiliations, which continue to this day– especially when she visits a primary care d...
Source: Health Beat - February 22, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Blaming Dieting counterproductive Doctors exercise Lecturing obesity Obesity and causes Obseity Shaming Uncategorized BMJ Emma Lewis Why There Is No Point to Telling Me to Lose Weight Source Type: blogs
Diet Change and Climate Change
Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger
A draft set of new dietary guidelines released yesterday by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) was backed by a 571-page scientific report from the 2015 Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee (DGAC) that was assembled by the Obama administration.
The Washington Post reports that, for the first time ever, the Dietary Guidelines took into consideration the environmental impacts of food production in recommending that Americans decrease their consumption of red meat and increase their intake of plant-based food.
This is from the DGAC’s ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 20, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger Source Type: blogs
Author Pens Vegetarian Lyrics for Feed The World - Do They Know It's Christmas at All
World Vegetarian And Vegan News: New Lyrics for Feed The World - Do They Know It's Christmas at All56 billion farm animals are killed every year adding to our health and environmental woes says Tony Bishop-Weston authorof various vegan cookbooks. So he has changed the lyrics of the legendary Feed the World Do They Know It's Christmas Time at all song to reflect a need for a kinder, healthier more sustainable way of eatingNew Lyrics -Feed TheWorldNutritionists London (Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News)
Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - November 16, 2014 Category: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Author Pens Vegetarian Lyrics for Feed The World - Do They Know It's Christmas at All
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Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - November 16, 2014 Category: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Offers: Christmas deal on immune + mood supporting omega 3 EPA DHA
Act now to protect your immune system and mood this winterOmega 3 DHA EPA from Algae with plant based vitamin D3Special offer on essential fats vegetarian vegan Omega 3 EPA (200mg) DHA (400mg) from algae with plant based vitamin D3 approved by vegetarian and vegan societies. Our modern lives and diet conspires against us leaving us typically depleted of essential fats omega 3 EPA DHAStress, inadequate diet and too few synergystic nutrients, too much omega 6 , not enough omega 3, and a number of other factors make it harder for us to produce adequate amounts of long chain fatty acids for our brain and body to function optim...
Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - October 27, 2014 Category: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Corn, Zucchini and Chickpea Fritters
Our first dinner in the empty nest.
We dropped our youngest off at college, which to our delight is a mere two hours drive north along the lovely Taconic Parkway. To say the campus is bucolic is an understatement, with the Catskill mountains on the horizon, and a lovely little town just a short ride away. This was a happy day for us all, the culmination of an amazing summer for the entire family. She’s launched and we’re so happy for her. (And can’t wait to come back up to visit on parent’s weekend…)
After settling her in, we explore the area, following dead end roads like fingers that end a...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - September 5, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetarian chickpea corn fritters summer vegetable dinner vegetarian dinner zucchini Source Type: blogs
Getting the dabigatran (Pradaxa) story right… Correcting four common mistakes.
This purpose of this post is to clarify misstatements made in a recent New York Times article about the anticoagulant drug dabigatran (Pradaxa). The piece had three major inaccuracies, plus one thought-error from a cardiology leader. I write these words because the most valuable tool in the treatment of AF is knowledge. Getting it right is critical. (For readers that persist, I offer a bonus at the end.)
The thrust of the Times’ story concerned editorials in the British Medical Journal that questioned the safety of dabigatran. The first non-warfarin anticoagulant has had plenty of controversy, the most recent of whic...
Source: Dr John M - August 21, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Nutritional Lipidology
I depart momentarily from the primary focus of the Wheat Belly Blog and discuss something that I have been following in practice for more than 10 years. I call it Nutritional Lipidology, the study of the effects of nutrition on lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic parameters, the stuff underlying many diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases. It is indeed relevant to the Wheat Belly conversation, as wheat elimination and, even better, grain elimination, yields dramatic effects on lipids, lipoproteins, and the factors that drive cardiovascular risk. In fact, I have found these simple strategies so powerful that most peop...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol HDL lipoproteins small LDL particles statin triglycerides Source Type: blogs
