Latest Blog Posts for HEALTHY LIVING

• The Coronary Heart Disease Epidemic
  on Dec 13, 2010 in disease Cardiovascular disease
  Few people alive today are old enough to remember the beginning of the coronary heart disease (CHD) epidemic in the 1920s and 1930s, when physicians in the U.S. and U.K. began sounding alarm bells that an uncommon disease was rapidly becoming the lea...
• How to Prevent Razor Bumps?
  on Dec 13, 2010
  The ingrown hairs of the beard in black men are called, technically, pseudofolliculitis barbae. Almost everyone knows what you mean, though, if you call them "razor bumps." This irritation and swelling around an ingrown hair occurs mostly in young bl...
• Sugar, Hydrogen, Bacteria and Maldigestion
  on Dec 13, 2010 in Cancer disease diet gluten
  There are several ways to cause a nutrient deficiency. The first is to eat too little of a nutrient. Another way is to burn through your body's nutrient stores at an accelerated rate, for example, what omega-6 vegetable oils do to vitamin E, and wh...
• Insulin, Leptin, Aging and Health
  on Dec 13, 2010 in disease diet leptin
  I recently read an article by Dr. Ron Rosedale that I found through commenter Stan's blog. Dr. Rosedale is one of those rare individuals who is capable of taking a truly big-picture view of health and aging, incorporating evolutionary biology, genet...
• Vitamin K2 and Cranial Development
  on Dec 13, 2010 in fat-soluble vitamins diet Dental Health
  One of the things Dr. Weston Price noticed about healthy traditional cultures worldwide is their characteristically broad faces, broad dental arches and wide nostrils. Due to the breadth of their dental arches, they invariably had straight teeth and...
• Cranial Development in Nepal, etc.
  on Dec 13, 2010 in fat-soluble vitamins Dental Health native diet real food fats
  I saw a great movie on Saturday called "The Sari Soldiers". It's a documentary about the bloody three-way struggle between the Nepalese monarchy, Maoists, and political parties that ended with the dissolution of the monarchy in 2008. It's shot from...
• Wow
  on Dec 13, 2010
  Last Thursday, the post "Reversing Tooth Decay" made it to the front page of Reddit, a news aggregator site. I ended up getting 46,429 hits that day, and another 8,646 the next day. I normally hover between 1,500 and 3,000.It was a wild ride. I'd...
• The Tokelau Island Migrant Study: The Final Word
  on Dec 13, 2010 in diet Tokelau native diet fats
  Over the course of the last month, I've outlined some of the major findings of the Tokelau Island Migrant study. It's one of the most comprehensive studies I've found of a traditional culture transitioning to a modern diet and lifestyle. It traces...
• Latest Study on Vitamin K and Coronary Heart Disease
  on Dec 13, 2010 in fat-soluble vitamins disease diet Cardiovascular disease fats
  A Dutch group led by Dr. Yvonne T. van der Schouw recently published a paper examining the link between vitamin K intake and heart attack (thanks Robert). They followed 16,057 women ages 49-70 years for an average of 8.1 years, collecting data on th...
• Statistics
  on Dec 13, 2010 in overweight exercise
  Ricardo just sent me a link to the British Heart Foundation statistics website. It's a goldmine. They have data on just about every aspect of health and lifestyle in the U.K. I find it very empowering to have access to this kind of information on...

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