The number of Americans dying from diabetes is skyrocketing. Diabetes deaths in the U.S. have increased 71% since 1990.[1]
You might be surprised to learn that high blood sugar is not what typically kills diabetics.
Heart attacks take the lives of about 60% of people with diabetes. Strokes kill another 25%.[2]
That’s why a new study is so important.… Read More
Health websites are full of information about “superfoods.”
Often they come from strange plants grown in exotic places. Goji berries from China, maca root from the Andes Mountains, and spirulina from Mexico are three examples.
But the most powerful superfood is one that you are familiar with.
You probably eat it regularly. But recent studies show that more is better.
Researchers have found that it prevents heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and extends lifespan. … Read More
He couldn’t stand most kinds of meat. He never ate fruit. And vegetables? Forget about it.
The teenager ate nothing but French fries, Pringles potato chips, white bread, and processed ham and sausage. He took the Western diet to its extreme.
The result? He suffered a severe deficiency that caused him to go blind.
The tragic case is the subject of a case study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.… Read More
It was a familiar sight around Princeton University… The man with the world’s most powerful brain was walking on the side of the road.
People in cars would often stop and ask if he wanted a ride.
But Albert Einstein always refused. He insisted that the daily mile-and-a-half walk from his home to his university office was crucial to his thinking skills.… Read More
Just about every health-conscious person knows that soda is bad for you.
But what is surprising is just how bad.
In recent years, studies have found that sweetened, carbonated drinks drive obesity, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and even lung disease.
But an exhaustive new analysis shows that the dangers may be far worse than anybody suspected.
Scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer looked at 451,000 people.… Read More
For years, we were told that BPA (bisphenol A) was the harmful ingredient in plastic bottles.
BPA and its chemical cousins, BPS (bisphenol S) and BPF (bisphenol F), are linked to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hormone problems, and migraines.[1]
Get rid of BPA, and plastic food and beverage containers would be perfectly safe, the plastics industry and the FDA said.… Read More