Lose It For Ever – Dave Elger

If you eat meat or drink milk, watch this!  Turning cancer on and off by diet. 

Health Risks, Research dariy, prostate cancer, protein

The researchers found that on average, all women lost around 19 pounds, but those who ate the higher-protein, meat-containing diet also lost bone mineral density by about 1.4 percent.  -nutraingredients.com

MY COMMENT:    Have the Atkins people looked at this?   I find it interesting that weight loss was identical in the study groups- one high protein and one meat free.   Which diet do you suppose has the potential for additional health problems?

Health Risks, Weight Loss News, Weight Loss Science bone loss, high protein diet

 

“Muscle loss is a serious issue that can lead to severe health and lifestyle consequences, yet building and maintaining muscle isn’t top of mind for most adults,”    -Evelyn Granieri, M.D., M.P.H., MSEd, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (Despite Risks, Americans Are Not Taking Action To Protect Themselves Against Muscle Loss As They Age)

Forget fat loss for just a minute- how many adults actually spend time working their muscles?  “…starting at age 40, the body can lose eight percent of muscle per decade”. 

This is easily preventable by spending just a few minutes per day with bands, dumbbells, and body weight exercises like push-ups.   How many can you do?

Exercise, Health Risks aging, health, muscle loss

Health Risks, Weight Loss News, Weight Loss Science sodium, weight gain

Next time you have an extra hour on your hands, watch The Effects of Animal Fats on the Human Body by Dr. Michael Klaper.  This lecture was recorded in 1993, however don’t let that fool you.  Dr. Klaper could change the way you eat forever!

Diets, Health Risks animal fat, diet, heart disease, Michael Klaper

“They’re taking people who have been inactive and are not in good shape and boom, automatically subjecting them to this stress,” Carol Wolin-Riklin, the bariatric nutrition coordinator for the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, told LiveScience. “Things are going to happen.”  -Biggest Loser’ has big health problems

MY COMMENT:  I don’t watch the show but let me guess that the exercise gets a wee bit over dramatized?   I’ll assume these people are  medically cleared?

Health Risks Biggest Loser

You brat eating Wisconsin Cheeseheads should have your cholesterol checked anyway.

   We’ve spent billions of our tax dollars trying to prove the diet-heart hypothesis. Yet study after study has failed to provide definitive evidence that saturated-fat intake leads to heart disease - from the article  What if Bad Fat Isn’t So Bad?

Cut your saturated fat and reduce your heart attack risk.  This is the advice we’ve been following for a couple of decades.  Now some researchers are giving the saturated fat-heart disease link another look.

This article by Nina Teicholz on msnbc.com is a well-written summary of the questions surrounding evidence that a diet high in saturated fat alone contributes to heart disease.   

If it’s not saturated fat causing all of this heart disease, then what is it?  You have to read the very last paragraph of Nina’s article to find a proposed answer to that question. 

If you consistently consume more calories than you burn, and you gain weight, your risk of heart disease will increase — whether you favor eating saturated fats, carbs, or both.

Finally, check out this latest study published in the respected American J of Clinical Nutrition in Jan of this year.   Researchers pooled the results from 21 studies involving more than 347,000 subjects and found  “that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat.

^{Holy cow!}

 

Health Risks heart disease, saturated fat

 

Does eating eggs contribute to heart disease?  Not according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health that “looked at a population of 117,000 nurses who had been followed for eight to 14 years and found no difference in heart disease risk between those who ate one egg a week and those who ate more than one egg a day.”  -medicine.net

The Berkley Wellness Newsletter summarizes the benefits of eggs as part of a healthy diet: 

One large egg contains 6 grams of high-quality protein (in both the yolk and the white). The yolk is also a source of zinc, B vitamins (including riboflavin and folate), vitamin A, iron, and other nutrients.

In addition to lutein and zeaxanthin, egg yolks provide choline, an essential nutrient, which is especially important for fetal brain development. Researchers have also identified other compounds in eggs that may have anti-cancer, anti-hypertensive, immune-boosting, and antioxidant properties.

While one egg does contain more than 200 mg of cholesterol, according to the Harvard Health Letter, “For most people, only a small amount of the cholesterol in food passes into the blood.”

It’s highly unlikely that one egg per day is not going to increase your cholesterol or risk for CV disease.   The sausage is another story!

 

Health Risks, Nutrition cholesterol, egg, health

A new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found low-carb, high-protein diets damage arteries  (from diseaseproof.com)

DiseaseProof is Dr. Joel Furman’s very enlightening  blog- Furman is author of Eat to Live.   

Dr. Fuhrman maintains that heart attacks, strokes and dementia are not the natural effects of aging but are the consequences of “an insane toxic food supply.

Diets, Health Risks Eat to Live, Joel Fuhrman

While none of the ice samples exceeded U.S. drinking water standards, coliform bacteria was detected in 48% of the beverages and 20% had a heterotrophic plate count greater than 500 cfu/ml.

More than 11% of the beverages analyzed contained Escherichia coli and over 17% contained Chryseobacterium meningosepticum. Other opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms isolated from the beverages included species of Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia. Most of the identified bacteria showed resistance to one or more of the 11 antibiotics tested. These findings suggest that soda fountain machines may harbor persistent communities of potentially pathogenic microorganisms which may contribute to episodic gastric distress in the general population and could pose a more significant health risk to immunocompromised individuals  -sciencedirect.com

MY COMMENT: I’d stay away from drinking soda out of dispensers typically found in fast food joints!  Get a bottled water instead.

Health Risks contamination, e-coli, soda