Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #29: Fructose, Formerly Known as Fruit Sugar

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What is fructose? Fruit sugar, right? Well, yes and no. It is found in copious amounts in fruit, of course, but so are other sugars. Free fr...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #28: Sugar in the Diet: What does it mean?

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I ran into a friend at the supermarket the other day and asked her how she was. She replied, “Fine,” but “tired a lot.” Not wanting to miss ...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #27: “…the strongest predictor of a heart attack”

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The contemporary medical literature is replete with macro and other large studies that attempt to extrapolate a correlation between heart at...
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Monday, September 5, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #26: The Cause and Treatment of Heart Disease

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Just in case the publisher is on vacation this week, let me be the one to state here and again, unequivocally, that I am not a doctor. In fa...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #25: Understanding Your Lipid Panel

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As has been pointed out with each column, I am not a doctor or a health care professional, and I do not offer dietary or health-related advi...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #24: What About Cholesterol?

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And what about dietary cholesterol? Again, quoting from Mary Enig, PhD, and Sally Fallon, authors of “The Skinny on Fats, “Here, too, the pu...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #23: The Benefits of Saturated Fats

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The benefits of saturated fat? To admit to such a belief is surely heretical, so I do not expect my reader(s) to commit such apostasy “on fa...