Archive for August, 2015

This week’s post was taken from one of the periodicals I enjoy reading, the Nutrition Action Health Letter, June/July 2015.  The cover story, titled, “Walk this Way, Please: 7 Reasons to Lace Up Your Sneakers.”

1. Build a Bigger, Sharper Brain.
Walking effects the brains of adults, especially adults in their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.  Studies consistently show older adults who walk more, 2 mile a day, have a significantly lower rate of developing Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementia.

2. Live Longer.
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We are at the last chapter of our book: The Great Cholesterol Myth
Chapter 9: Putting it All Together – A Simple and Easy Blue Print for a Healthy Heart and Life.

1. Ask your doctor for the following test. which are more important than the standard test for cholesterol:

• LDL particle size
• Hs-CRP
• Fibrogen
• Serum Ferritin (Iron)
• Lp (A)
• Homocysteine
• Interlevilin – 6
• Coroary Calcium Scan

Question & Answer

Is cholesterol a good predictor of heart disease?

Researchers in Japan examined all of the studies that claimed a relationship of cholesterol to life expectancy. They excluded all studies done before 1995 and any that had fewer than 500 subjects. Nine studies met the criteria, but four had incomplete data. They analyzed the remaining five studies, which together involved more than 150,000 people followed for about five years. The researchers placed everyone in one of ...

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Co Enzyme Q10 is a vitamin-like substance found throughout the body and made in every cell.  Among the many important things it does, CoQ10, helps create energy from fuel (food), just as a spark plug creates energy from fuel (gasoline).  The heart is one of the two organs where the most CoQ10 is concentrated (the other being the liver).  The heart never sleeps. It beats more than one hundred thousand times a day, and is one if the ...