I recently published a paper showing that eating foods high in saturated fat is a prime culprit in raising blood cholesterol levels. It’s amazing how many practitioners have written to me, questioning and challenging this well-established feature of human physiology, based on information they have received from other sources. Don’t be mistaken, high cholesterol is a cardinal risk factor for heart attack, stroke, kidney failure and other vascular problems. Moreover, eating saturated fat, trans-fats and deep fried ...
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Green Tea and Bone Density
The catechin compounds in green tea have recently been shown to increase bone density in animal studies.
Previously, we saw that tea drinkers had 2.8% higher bone density than non-tea drinkers in a large human observation study, as published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2007.
The study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (2009) showed that epigallocatechin (EGC), a catechin com...
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One of the things that stands out for me from my experience of delivering a countless number of seminars to corporations, special interest groups and to attendees at various consumer health and anti-aging shows, is the under appreciation that most people have for the damaging effects that saturated fat has on the development of heart and vascular diseases. So, I’d like to set the record straight.
After digestion, saturated fat enters the bloodstream and travels to the liver. In response, the liv...
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