Monthly Archives: February 2013

Endangered SilverLobster Needs Your Help

My 14-year-old son is a budding artist.  His work is viewable and for sale at DeviantArt.  You can order prints of various sizes and quality, along with his art on cups and refrigerator magnets.  Thanks for taking a look.  Paul will get a kick out of the bump in page views whether you buy or not!

Some samples:

Wink!

Deadmau5 copy

Soaring eagle

Impressionist snake

REEEAOGH

Low Glycemic Index Diets Reduce Total and LDL Cholesterol

…according to a recent report in Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease. LDL cholesterol is the type we think contributes to coronary artery disease and other forms of atherosclerosis.

Learn about glycemic index at NutritionData.

My Low-Carb Mediterranean and Ketogenic Mediterranean Diets are undoubtedly “low glycemic index.”  The Advanced Mediterranean Diet would also be significantly lower GI than the standard American diet.

Coenzyme Q10 May Help Those With Heart Failure

…according to an article in AJCN.  The study looked only at left ventricle pumping action, not death rates, hospitalization rates, or quality of life.

Infected with HIV? Quit Smoking

I remember back in the early 1980s when AIDS was a death sentence.  The virus that causes it is called HIV: human immunodeficiency virus.  With the great drugs we have now, HIV-infected smokers lose more life-years to smoking than to HIV, according to a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.