The Diet-Heart Hypothesis: Subdividing Lipoproteins
Two posts ago, we made the rounds of the commonly measured blood lipids (total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides) and how they associate ...

All About Diabetes and Health
In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat intake and type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, and it is strongly linked to lifestyle factors.N...
Two posts ago, we made the rounds of the commonly measured blood lipids (total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides) and how they associate ...
The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention trial was a very large controlled diet trial conducted in the 1980s. It involved an initial phase in ...
Now that we've discussed the first half of the diet-heart hypothesis, that saturated fat elevated total and LDL cholesterol, let's t...
The diet-heart hypothesis is the idea that (1) dietary saturated fat, and in some versions, dietary cholesterol, raise blood cholesterol in ...
Today, July 15th, is St Swithun's Day. When I first started learning about diabetes on misc.health.diabetes I discovered that most of th...
This diet trial was conducted between 1959 and 1971 in two psychiatric hospitals near Helsinki, Finland. One hospital served typical fare,...
There's a definite association between the consumption of refined carbohydrates and dental cavities. Dr. Weston Price pointed this out ...
Blood lipids such as LDL and HDL cholesterol are markers of the biological processes that impact cardiovascular disease, and they are commonly measured to assess cardiovascular risk. When we think ab...
Although the concept of food addiction remains controversial, there's no doubt that specific foods can provoke addiction-like behaviors in susceptible people. Yet not all foods have this effect, ...
I would like to thank Steve Cooksey forpointing this out, but I cannot totally agree with him. Yes, theAmerican Society of Nutrition (ASN) has some serious conflicts ofinterest, but they are not tryi...