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“Men who watch more than 20 hours of television a week risk halving their sperm count, researchers warn.

From the World Health Organization:

“Low potassium intake has been associated with a number of non-communicable diseases, including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney stone formation and low bone-mineral density. An increased potassium intake may reduce blood pressure, decrease risk of cardiovascular disease, have beneficial effects on bone-mineral density, and mitigate the negative consequences of high sodium consumption.”

The Linus Pauling Institute says fruits and vegetables are the best sources of potassium.  Beans are also good.  WHO recommends similar natural sources, and against simple supplementation.

Men taking calcium supplements may be at risk for premature cardiac death, according to an article in MedPageToday.  But what if those men have lower cancer and infection rates and end up living longer than non-supplementers?  The article doesn’t address that.

A study a couple years ago looked at women taking calcium supplements.  As long as they also took a vitamin D supplement, they had no adverse mortality or cardiac effects.  

He does it almost every week.  It’s brief and funny.  All aspects of healthcare are fair game.

…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.

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

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.

Problem is, there’s no consensus on what it means.