…by Johns Hopkins researchers.
Six thousand Americans were followed over the course of almost eight years, with attention to heart disease and death. Significantly lower death rates were seen in nonsmokers, and those maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, and eating the Mediterranean diet. The more adherence to those healthy factors, the lower the risk of death
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I don’t post many pictures of myself here. It’s right for you to wonder what a “diet doctor” looks like. Well, I’m not fat. At a shade under 6 feet tall (183 cm), I weigh 170 lb (77.3 kg).
Steve Parker and son Paul hiking at Horton’s Creek in Arizona on the Mogollon Rim
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A treadmill is one of many ways to do high-intensity training. Tabata’s classic interval study used a stationary bicycle.
…if you’re an overweight out of shape man. The lede touts three 4-minute workouts a week. The fine print adds a 10-minute warm-up and 5-minute cool-down. So now we’re up to 19 minutes x 3 = 57 minutes a week.
Medical Daily has the details, or you can go straight to the research report. These guys walked, jogged, and ran on an inclined treadmill. The 4-minute “exercise” is intense.
Study participants increased their oxygen consumption, a common measure of fitness. The also dropped their fasting blood sugars by 5%.
I don’t see why you couldn’t replicate these results with other types of exercise, such as bicycling, burpees, or running outdoors.
We’ve already established that most of us will never exercise for two or three hours a week. How about an hour? If you’re sedentary now, what are you waiting for?
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Details are at MedPageToday. Patients taking 100 mg three times a day had better outcomes compared to placebo. A separate study suggested that CoQ10 improves pumping action of the main heart chamber, the left ventricle.
BTW, the Mediterranean diet helps prevent heart failure in the first place.
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National surveys suggest that more than a third of girls in the U.S. experience some degree of physical or sexual abuse before they reach adulthood, the researchers noted. Studies also have linked childhood abuse with an increased risk for adult obesity and anorexia nervosa and bulimia, but the new analysis is the first to explore an association between child sexual and physical abuse and a wider range of binge eating and food obsession issues now grouped together under the umbrella term ‘food addiction’.
“Our findings suggest that women with a history of childhood abuse are more likely to report engaging in these uncontrolled, addiction-like eating behaviors, and we also found that the harsher the abuse they experienced, the stronger the association,” the investigators wrote.
The article also helps you figure out if you have food addiction.
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Medicare provider information in two separate databases was inaccurate most of the time and generally inconsistent between the two, compromising the program’s ability to detect fraud and abuse, a government watchdog found.
Data in at least one field were inaccurate in 48% of inspected records in the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) and in 58% of inspected records in the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS), according to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
Moreover, provider data were inconsistent between NPPES and PECOS 97% of the time, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) didn’t verify most provider information, the watchdog agency said in a report released Thursday.
Having to deal with these agencies is one of the many reasons doctors don’t own and run their own practices.
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Does this model fast to stay this skinny?
I just finished my second-ever 24-hour fast. It went well, although not quite as easy as my first one in February. The novelty has worn off. I had more thoughts of food and eating this time.
Dietriffic dietitian Mel Thomassian spurred me to finally try fasting by summarizing what we know and don’t know about intermittent fasting and effects on health.
I had a brief pang of guilt about half way through this last fast when I realized I had just drunk 7.5 oz of Diet Coke. Then I remembered it had no calories, so I was OK as far as I’m concerned. I drink black coffee, too.
Here’s the mind game that get’s me through the fast. I eat my last meal, then sleep for seven hours. Next, I get up and putter around the house for a few hours, then head to the hospital for my 12-hour shift. So I’m not tempted by food at home, nor bombarded by food ads on TV for most of the 24 hours. It helps to be busy. Soon enough, the 24 hours is up and I break my fast.
I’m tempted to extend the fast longer, or try a physical work-out after a prolonged fast. It’s self-experimentation, not an obsession or eating disorder. A longer fast might be easier if my wife joined in. At this point she doesn’t even know I’ve done these two fasts.
The Fast Diet is pretty popular right now. Check out Dr. Yoni Freedhoff’s review.
It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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…with a 1-star review at Amazon. For example:
I do NOT recommend this book. If you buy it anyway, talk it over with more than one well qualified physician before using the advice it contains.
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…according to a preliminary report at MedPageToday. The drug is lisdexamfetamine dimesylate, sold in the U.S. as Vyvanse. From the article:
Binge eating disorder is now officially recognized in psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, with its inclusion in the newly released fifth edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5. But patients experiencing periodic urges to eat large quantities of food even when not particularly hungry, and who suffer guilt and self-loathing afterward, have been coming to psychiatrists for many years.
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