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The American Journal of Medicine has an article entitled “Diets to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease 1957- 2013: What Have We Learned?” The authors conclude:
The Mediterranean-style diet, with a focus on vegetables, fruit, fish, whole grains and olive oil, has proven to reduce cardiovascular events to a degree greater than low fat diets, and equal to or greater than the benefit observed in statin trials.
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Posted in Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Disease
I’ll drink to that!
It’s an old study from 2000 that I should have known about. It’s an observational study, not interventional. So it’s suggestive but not proof of hearing protection by alcohol.
h/t Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit)
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Tagged alcohol, hearing loss, hearing preservation
For the argument, click through for an article at The Heritage Foundation. A quote:
The United States does not have a private-sector health insurance system, let alone a functioning competitive market for insurance or health services. In fact, the federal government has been the dominant force in American health care for decades, long before the recent massive expansion of the government’s role in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [Obamacare]. Through overly restrictive policies, Medicare, Medicaid, and tax subsidies, the federal government has dominated the operation of the U.S. health care system for the past half-century. It is primarily federal policies that are responsible for driving up costs and making health insurance unaffordable for so many Americans.
You’ll read how Democrats helped deregulate the airline and trucking industries, leading to lower consumer costs.
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Larry Huston, a long-time writer on things cardiologic, notes that:
It was a good year for the Mediterranean Diet. The PREDIMED study provided the best supporting evidence yet, though it seems unlikely if anyone will ever be able to sort out the specific role of the individual components of the Mediterranean diet, which include wine, olive oil, nuts, fish, and, of course, less tangible things like sunshine and lifestyle. The nuts component received a separate boost from the publication of an influential paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Actually, Harvard and U. of Athens researchers have an idea which components of the Mediterranean diet prolong life.
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Posted in Heart Disease, Longevity
Tagged Mediterranean diet
…to prevent future events—like heart attacks and strokes—and to prolong life. Details are at the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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What if…?
I had a prior post on deathbed regrets. In that same vein, Mike Spohr at Buzzfeed has an article on “37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old.” No. 21, neglecting your teeth, resonated with me. I’d never heard anyone else say that. I neglected mine in childhood and exposed them to too many refined carbohydrates. One of my other regrets is quitting Boy Scouts at Life rank instead of forging ahead to Eagle.
Read it unless you’re old and it’s too late. It’s almost time for New Years’ Resolutions.
Dr. Harriet Hall writes about it:
Dr. Oz has promoted a series of weight loss supplements on his show. Raspberry ketones were presented as a fat-busting miracle, thengreen coffee bean extract was touted as “magic,” “staggering,” and “unprecedented.” And now both of those miracles have apparently been superseded by an even greater miracle: Garcinia cambogia extract.
Dr. Oz calls it “The newest, fastest fat buster.” A way to lose weight without “spending every waking moment exercising and dieting.” “Triples your weight loss.” “The most exciting breakthrough in natural weight loss to date.” “The Holy Grail.” Oz claims that “Revolutionary new research says it could be the magic ingredient that lets you lose weight without diet or exercise.”
But does it work? Click for details at Science-Based Medicine.
Posted in Overweight & Obesity, Supplements
This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.
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