Key Points: The Women’s Health Initiative was a massive effort to test and assess an array of lifestyle recommendations in women. A major goal was to assess the effect of a low-fat, high fruit and vegetable, and high grain diet…
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In March of this year, my grandfather would be turning 102. Born in 1917, he passed away just shy of his 97th birthday, after a long and fascinating life. Remarkably, in 1917 the average life expectancy for men was 48 years….
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In 2013, a scientific report on fat and cancer baffled scientists and physicians. A usual, the nightly news had a field day with the findings. A massive analysis of all available studies assessing weight status and survival revealed that being…
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The sun poked through my bedroom window for nearly two hours by this point, filling the room with light, and supplying my reading light. I was enjoying my favorite single batch, shade-grown coffee from the Dominican Republic. As usual, it…
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Leonardo had spent all afternoon picking ripe olives from the hillside overlooking San Lorenzo Bellizzi along the northern border of Calabria. He now found himself helping his father loading the freshly picked fruit below his stone mill grinding wheel, crushing…
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It has been over ten years now. It was a difficult decision at first and all I wanted to do was get more as soon as I stopped. I found myself talking about it incessantly with other addicts at work…
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Many of us have been promoting a ketogenic diet for years – and that includes both strict and continual ketosis, or the often-preferable low carb diet that fluctuates through intermittent states of ketosis. Initially people like Jeff Volek were laughed…
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Thanksgiving is that time of the year where we pause to be thankful – thankful for our friends, thankful for our family and, hopefully, thankful for our health. But it is also the beginning of a time of the year…
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As a health nut and low-carb advocate, and strong proponent of bitter foods to maximize my health and help prevent cancer, I turn to chocolate as my number one dessert. If selected properly, dark chocolate provides a plethora of health…
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Adrienne Scheck, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona is one of the most prolific researchers when it comes to brain cancer and the ketogenic diet (AND, she is an amazing person). As a radiation oncologist…
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