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What is DNA? A molecule that allows us to travel very far back into the past – this history book we carry around like a gift from a long line of ancestors. A continuous sequence of code with four building blocks, contained in nearly every cell in your body. So much information is contained in our DNA inside one cell that if stretched end to end, if would be nearly six feet long. DNA stands for Deoxyribo ...

Well, I’ve started a new book! (Actually I read a very good novel last week by a local author. B.K. Nault. The book is titled Kelidescope. WARNING, once you start this book, you won’t want to put it down!)

The new book I will be posting about is titled, “Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genograpic Project” Written by, Spencer Wells. Published by, National Geographic 2007.
As described on the back cover,
….an accessible introduction into genetic anthropology, the study ...

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 ...

Lets Talk Supplements

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 ...

We are winding down our synopsis of the book, “The Great Cholesterol Myth,” only a few posts remain.

Let’s take a look at the class of drugs used to lower our blood cholesterol levels, called Statin Drugs.

What you should know:

• The benefit of Statin Drugs have been widely exaggerated.
• Statin Drugs deplete the co-enzyme Q10, an important nutrient for the heart.
• Depletion of Co-Q10 can cause muscle pain, weakness and fatigue.
• The brain depends on cholesterol to function optimally and help stimulate thinking and memory.
• Statin ...

The case against Canola Oil:
The success of canola oil and its reputation as the healthiest of oils is a triumph of marketing over science. Canola Oil is typically extracted and refined using very high heat and petroleum solvents (such as Hexane). Then it undergoes a process of refining, degumming, bleaching and because it stinks, deodorization using even more chemicals. The only kind of canola oil that could be ok is organic, cold pressed, unrefined, which hardly anyone ...

Chapter 5: The Truth About Fat: It’s not what you think

You can’t talk about cholesterol without also talking about fat. Lets clear up some misconceptions about fat- What is it? What it does? What it doesn’t Do? and Why it matters in the first place?

What exactly is fat anyway?
Fat is the collective shorthand name given to any big collection of smaller units called fatty acids. You can think of “Fat” and “Fatty Acids” as analogous to paper ...

Hello All! Sorry for the gap in postings, my office manager was on vacation for the last three weeks, and she is the one who actually types up my posts.

We are continuing our investigation of the harmful effects of sugar in our diet.

The way in which sugar damages the heart can be directly related to insulin resistance. Ordinary table sugar, known technically as sucrose, is actually composed of equal parts glucose and fructose, two sugars that are anything ...