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The ketogenic diet has been around for 80 years, and it works. It has been used to get kids with epilepsy off of drugs through diet alone. But because it is so restrictive and because people have been misled into thinking saturated fat is bad, medicine is considered a better […]
By Cassandra Forsythe-Pribanic, PhD, RD
ProGrade
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When people today think of bacon, they think of clogged arteries, love handles and sin. They also think of Homer Simpson…
That’s right: eating bacon means that you’re destined for heart disease, a fat belly and a lifetime in Satan’s dungeon-Doh!
But, thinking this way is a terrible misconception. In truth, […]
eurekalert.org
WASHINGTON – Approximately one million Americans suffer a heart attack each year of which some 400,000 attacks are fatal. A key cause of heart attacks is atherosclerosis, a process in which cholesterol builds up in the arteries and impedes the ability of the blood to flow to our most vital organ. Atherosclerosis is […]
Dr. John Briffa
for the Cholesterol Truth
Two weeks ago my post focused on the lack of evidence for a link between saturated fat and heart disease risk. One of the reviews I quoted was published in 2009, which came out of an ‘expert consultation’ held jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and […]
Dr. Alok Kalia speaking at the event
by Ritu Raju
Indo American News
HOUSTON: The Indian American Cancer Network (IACAN) presented a talk by eminent physician, author, and speaker Dr. Alok Kalia titled “The South Asian Diet, the Grandmother, and the Scientist- A Cautionary Tale.” The event, held on March 13th at India House, attracted a full […]
by Kristin Wartman
Civil Eats
The low-fat trend finally appears to be on its way out. The notion that saturated fats are detrimental to our health is deeply embedded in our Zeitgeist—but shockingly, the opposite just might be true. For over 50 years the medical establishment, public health officials, nutritionists, and dieticians have been telling the American […]
by Margie King
Nutrition Examiner
Recently the Harvard School of Public Health issued its criticism of the new USDA 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, complaining that among other things, the new guidelines were too soft on red meat. It points out that a porterhouse steak has 44 grams of fat, 16 of which are […]
by Peter Ballerstedt, PhD
Nature Votes Last
Temperature, humidity, soil, sunlight, electricity, vital force, express themselves primarily in vegetable existence that furnishes the basis of that animal life which yields sustenance to the human race. What a man, a community, a nation can do, think, suffer, imagine or achieve depends upon what […]
by Jack Challem
Psychology Today
I’ve been writing about nutrition for 30-some years. As I listen to people, I often hear less science and more of what could best be described as a variety of belief systems.
There are the vegetarian, vegan, and macrobiotic sects. There’s the church of low-fat eating. And there’s the pervasive belief that […]
Population studies in tropical cultures that consume coconuts seldom see diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Note: The updated story is published here:
Coconut Oil and Alzheimer’s Disease: The News is Spreading
