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The Truth About Saturated Fat

Paul Rogers — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:01:43 +0000

Traditional dietary advice for prevention of heart disease says we should keep our intake of saturated fat low and eat more unsaturated fats like vegetable seed and nut oils and olive oil, which have some saturated fat but are much higher in the polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. Although some vegetable oils like coconut and palm oils are high [...]

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The Truth About Saturated Fat

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Are the Framingham Heart Risk Tests Useless?

Paul Rogers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:07:03 +0000

I trust everyone who had a holiday break over December is refreshed and ready for another long, hot and sweaty year — either from climate change or your exceedingly vigorous exercise regimen. The Framingham Heart Study and Risk Factors Commencing in 1948, the Framingham Heart Study is the largest and longest running study of cardiovascular [...]

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Are the Framingham Heart Risk Tests Useless?

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Survival of the Fittest

Paul Rogers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:27:47 +0000

We all know that exercise and physical activity is good for us: authorities have been belting out the message for decades. Even so, it all gets a little confusing trying to decide how much, what type of exercise, and how to know if you’re doing enough by any measurable parameter. Now it seems we have [...]

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Survival of the Fittest

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Red Meat and Chronic Disease

Paul Rogers — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:57:53 +0000

Red meat is a dietary staple in developed nations of the west — North America, Europe, Australia and much of South America in the more affluent countries and regions. In fact, eating read meat is almost a badge of affluence. In Asia, red meat is not usually the protein of choice, or availability, although consumption [...]

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Red Meat and Chronic Disease

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Increasing HDL Cholesterol is the New Focus

Paul Rogers — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:33:21 +0000

Cholesterol from your diet or that produced internally by the body is carried in the bloodstream bundled into complexes called ‘lipoproteins’, which means fat-proteins, ‘lipo’ meaning fat. There are diffent types of lipoproteins classified by how dense they are, that is, how much protein they include. These include high density (HDL), low density (LDL), intermediate [...]

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Increasing HDL Cholesterol is the New Focus

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The Diet Wars Really Are Over

Paul Rogers — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:41:48 +0000

John Tierney over at TierneyLab recently had a bit to say about the New England Journal of Medicine study that compared an American Heart Association low-fat diet with Atkins and Mediterranean diets. I’ve discussed the details and the implications in a longer page post called Diet Wars, but the upshot of this and many other [...]

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The Diet Wars Really Are Over

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When Aerobic Fitness is Not Aerobic Conditioning

Paul Rogers — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:08:39 +0000

Aerobic fitness is measured by the volume of oxygen you can process in any given time. This is called your VO2 maximum or VO2max. It’s mostly measured in millilitres of oxygen used per kilogram of bodyweight per minute. An elite marathon runner might have a VO2 of 80 and an obese, sedentary and very unfit [...]

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When Aerobic Fitness is Not Aerobic Conditioning

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How the Cholesterol Skeptics Can Harm You

Paul Rogers — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:04:58 +0000

Do a search for ‘cholesterol and heart disease’ in Google and you will see that many of the results in the first few pages are from sites that dispute the current medical view that cholesterol is a major factor in causing heart disease. Some of the advocates of this position are well known ‘alternative’, or [...]

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How the Cholesterol Skeptics Can Harm You

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Tim Russert’s Heart Attack – What Went Wrong?

Paul Rogers — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:36:52 +0000

According to a New York Times article, Tim Russert, the well-known NBC news and current affairs television journalist who suffered a fatal heart attack, did not have any prior warning even though he did have some ominous signs in his cardiovascular risk profile. The essence of many articles about Tim Russert since his death have [...]

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Tim Russert’s Heart Attack – What Went Wrong?

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Does Coffee Kill or Cure?

Paul Rogers — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:09:51 +0000

Coffee, Java, Joe, Mud, Beans, Cafe — whatever you call it — coffee is the most popular drink on the planet, in international terms. Even so, in “natural health” circles it was, and perhaps still is, regarded as just about as evil as alcohol. Natural health people don’t like substances that either stimulate or depress [...]

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Does Coffee Kill or Cure?

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