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At the beginning of the year, I wrote a post called “On Turning Pro” where I laid out my plan to make some changes in my mindset — this after the roughest six months of my life, when anxiety issues came (seemingly) out of nowhere to render me pretty darn useless. Central to my plan: reading Read more »
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19 Jun 2013 at 10:05am
It’s triathlon season! Shout it with me, people: IT’S TRIATHLON SEASON! I haven’t always been such an overeager pain in the ass about this sport. I used to be scared — really scared — before triathlon races. I knew what I was doing as a runner, but triathlon was just so … complicated. With running Read more »
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15 Jun 2013 at 4:00am
Well, I’ve officially cleared the biggest hurdle on my path toward running a 100-miler (until race day, that is): a 50-mile training run. Actually, 52.7 miles. Last Saturday I ran the Black Mountain Monster, a 12-hour race around a 5K loop that comprises single-track trails, roads, and a few fields. I had hoped to cover Read more »
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6 Jun 2013 at 6:51am
I make no secret of the fact that I'm a huge fan of author and blogger Tim Ferriss. His personality and approach are (apparently) polarizing, but his experimentalist attitude of questioning long-accepted (but untested) assumptions, testing them, and valuing the results over theory makes total sense to me. Tim’s work is fascinating. The 4-Hour
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5 Jun 2013 at 8:59am
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Thanks to discovering Forks Over Knives and The Engine 2 Diet, I have dropped 12 pounds in ten weeks, and my cholesterol level has decreased significantly. I have never lost weight this quickly, and I …
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18 Jun 2013 at 2:53pm
This Mexican inspired burger is a delicious and healthy alternative to greasy beef burgers. Use your favorite salsa or you could also replace salsa with ketchup. If you enjoy the hotness, feel free to add …
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14 Jun 2013 at 11:57am
Should cholesterol-lowering statins be added to our drinking water in order to prevent atherosclerosis, like fluoride is added to prevent tooth decay? Some medical doctors and scientists have recommended this public health measure because heart …
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10 Jun 2013 at 4:00am
Spring rolls are a popular appetizer in several Asian cuisines: Taiwanese, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese, just to name a few. The fillings often vary with the seasons, which is why you might see them …
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6 Jun 2013 at 5:00am
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The importance of vitamin D for bone health is now well-recognized, and the epidemic of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency is thought to contribute to a wide range of medical conditions including cancers, mood disorders, autoimmune conditions, cardiovascular disease and more.1 As such, vitamin D sufficiency (25(OH)D greater than 30 ng/ml)
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18 Jun 2013 at 1:55pm
Six years ago Anthony lost 163 lbs and eradicated food addiction and resulting nutritional diseases from his life. [Click here to read his life changing story]. I thought it would be inspiring to interview Anthony again for this Father’s Day weekend to see how Dr. Fuhrman’s nutritarian approach has perhaps made him a better
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13 Jun 2013 at 9:26pm
I met Ronna a year ago last month at Dr. Fuhrman’s Health Immersion for Whole Foods Market team members. She wasn’t significantly overweight at the time but knew she was not in the zone of where she could be health-wise. Thinking she was eating ‘clean’ and ‘in moderation’, lingering cravings for processed foods,
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11 Jun 2013 at 6:30am
Stroke is a leading cause of disability and death in the United States. About 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year. A stroke occurs when blood flow to a portion of the brain is interrupted, preventing oxygen and nutrients from reaching brain tissue; ischemic strokes, the most common type, are usually caused by a blood clot obstructing
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7 Jun 2013 at 6:53am
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The Black Women's Health Study I profiled in my last blog Prevent Breast Cancer by Any Greens Necessary was out of Boston University. Across the Charles River, the Harvard Nurse's Health Study also tried to determine which plants may be particularly protective in reducing breast cancer risk. They looked at intake of fiber and nuts during…
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18 Jun 2013 at 5:00am
Recently a study of 50,000 African-American women was published, a sadly neglected demographic when it comes to nutritional science and, in fact, medical research generally. Certain African populations were among the healthiest on earth, inspiring one of America's lifestyle medicine pioneers Nathan Pritikin (see my 2-min. video Engineering a Cure).
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13 Jun 2013 at 5:00am
Though breast cancer is the most common cancer among women around the world, the rate in some areas of the world, such as Asia, is up to six-fold lower than in North America. Maybe it's the green tea and soy? As I show in my 3-min. video Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer?, if…
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11 Jun 2013 at 5:00am
Breast cancer can take decades to develop, so “early” detection via mammogram may be too late. The breast cancer you may feel one day as a lump in the shower, may have started 20 years ago. We now suspect that all the epithelial cancers: breast, colon, lung, pancreas, prostate, ovarian—the ones that cause the vast…
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6 Jun 2013 at 5:00am
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In January, I made a post saying that there was scant evidence that branched chain amino acids (BCAA) are important for sports nutrition (Branched Chain Amino Acids and Exercise). In response, a reader, who is a bodybuilder, told me that while BCAAs might not be important, leucine (one of the three BCAA) is likely important [...]
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17 Jun 2013 at 7:37pm
Just got around to reading this 2012 article from the Vegetarian Resource Group about a vegan with type 1 diabetes. It includes a link to a meal plan for vegetarians with type 1 diabetes: The “Vegabetic”: Successful Veganism as a Type 1 Diabetic Click here for other posts about vegans with type 1 diabetes.
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17 Jun 2013 at 5:24pm
A reader (thanks, Dan!) pointed out a follow-up study to one I had included in VeganHealth’s article Iron, about iron supplementation in women with unexplained fatigue who have low iron stores but do not technically have anemia. I updated the article: “Two studies from Switzerland have shown that iron supplementation can reduce fatigue in
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15 Jun 2013 at 12:50pm
I’ve received this question twice in the past week, so thought I’d turn it into a post in case other people are wondering the same thing: “Do you have any view on whether calcium and Vitamin D supplements should be taken at the same time to ensure they are absorbed properly? This seems to be [...]
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14 Jun 2013 at 4:50pm
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Our preparation for the Naturally Fit Supershow in Austin TX is coming right along and we’re getting ready to enter the home stretch! As you can see from Marcella’s last post, we’ve been making excellent progress on a high carb […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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10 Jun 2013 at 1:06pm
I first posted on my progress here and Derek posted a brief update here. I began this journey, 8 months after the birth of my son, at 29.1% body fat and significantly weaker than I had been pre-pregnancy with serious […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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6 Jun 2013 at 2:19pm
Actually this recipe has more components than listed – I just didn’t want the title to get out of hand. This meal, which Derek and I just enjoyed for the first time, is filling and really flavorful in spite of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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24 May 2013 at 8:00pm
This lunch, of basic things like lentils and sweet potatoes, does great things. It makes our lives easier by being simple to make in advance, satisfies sweet cravings on a daily basis, makes our one-year-old happy, and wins bodybuilding competitions. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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30 Apr 2013 at 3:07pm
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For a project I'm working on for next year, I'm hoping to chat with people who are vegan (or transitioning to veganism) and are over the age of 50. I'd especially like to hear from you if you started your transition to veganism after the age of 50. Please tell me why you went vegan, [...]
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8 Jun 2013 at 5:11pm
My new food guide The Plant Plate made its debut on VeganForHer.com today. This is a colorized version of the guide that will be in the book Vegan for Her (which will provide a little more detail on using the plate.) The information is almost identical to the food guide that Jack and I created [...]
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5 Jun 2013 at 10:28am
If you are subscribed to the Vegan for Her website, then you already know that it went live this morning. Our very first email should be sitting in your mailbox. If you haven't subscribed, please head on over to check out the welcome message, a short article on calcium supplements, and a quick, fun recipe [...]
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30 May 2013 at 6:57am
Vida Vegan Con (VVC) has to be the most fun event on earth. I've been to lots of veggie fests, and they are all wonderful (every last one of them). VVC is a little bit different though; it's a more intimate gathering that nurtures vegans to help us become more effective, joyful and confident advocates [...]
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28 May 2013 at 6:31pm
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How Vinegar Could Save 73,000 Women A Year From Cancer Did Backlash Prompt Komen's Cancellations? I don’t wear pink and nor am I one to travel abroad in order to have some think-their-saving-people’s-lives professional dribble some vinegar onto my cervix. Mostly this has to do with how manly I am. Too manly to wear pink. And way too
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6 Jun 2013 at 10:19am
Maryland boy suspended for gun-shaped pastry is now lifetime NRA member Finally—an NRA sponsored and or condoned assault on innocent school children and those pesky adults that make them math all day and read about the terrible red people who tried to taketh the land. If I’m rubbing my memories correctly, I believe one of my friends was suspended
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31 May 2013 at 9:00am
Toxic waste from Greek yogurt poses danger to waterways I can’t help but chuckle and twist when I think about how this Western world will throw punches, whether verbal, metallic, or straight-up passive aggressive, in order to defend their right to throw punches in the first place. With Memorial Day behind one corner and rounding around for another
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30 May 2013 at 9:00am
How to spot a racist. Did a group of your friends recently unhinge their swagger and climb back into the belief that hand-me-downs sold at a thrift store are now totally non-heterosexual because Macklemore did more than shit on a culture obsessed with the epidermis of life? Did a co-worker surprise you with the fact that marriage is meant only for those
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29 May 2013 at 9:00am
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Recently two meta-analysis papers were published addressing the findings from population studies of the association between egg intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease.1 2 Unfortunately the authors of these two review papers reached contradictory conclusions regarding the dangers of egg intake which is likely to lead to unnecessary public
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7 Apr 2013 at 7:50am
Since the breakthrough led by Nikolai Anichkov a century ago, the feeding of cholesterol, and to an extent, dietary fat have been recognized as the sine qua nons for the dietary modification of experimental atherosclerosis, and have been used in thousands of experiments to successfully accelerate the development of atherosclerosis in mammalian, avian
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7 Apr 2013 at 7:44am
A recent publication from the EPIC-Oxford cohort with 15,000 vegetarians and 30,000 non-vegetarians found that the vegetarians had a 32% lower risk of hospitalization or death from coronary heart disease.1 These findings are consistent with a previous meta-analysis of 5 cohort studies with 48,000 non-vegetarians and 28,000 vegetarians which found that
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19 Feb 2013 at 7:12am
Several hundred metabolic ward experiments have established beyond plausible doubt that isocaloric substitution of saturated fat for carbohydrate, polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat raises serum (blood) LDL and total cholesterol (Fig. 1).1 Many of these experiments were carried out in locked facilities where the participants mode of life, energy
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31 Jan 2013 at 7:59am
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Look, there's Science!TM to back up my month of cannibalism: Homo habilis used stone tools to de-flesh one another's skulls. So did archaic Homo sapiens. And there's lots more right here. There are some pretty good, if imprecise, recipes available with a quick Google search, too. Though I'd appreciate some reader recipes,
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16 Mar 2013 at 5:12pm
In honor of Alex Jamieson's recent conversion, I have decided to listen to my body, too. Starting tomorrow, I will be cannibal for a month. I mean, I appreciate the compassionate motives of all those wonderful people in the world who just can't bring themselves to eat other people. But I can't live a lie anymore. I've craved this for years.
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9 Mar 2013 at 2:48pm
In an attempt to cut down on the number of Anonymi posting here, I have changed the comments settings to require a registered Google or OpenID avatar. I know it's not foolproof, but I want to hold people to a modicum of accountability for their comments.
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3 Mar 2013 at 3:54pm
It's been nearly a year now, so I'm no longer sure whether it was Plant Positive or me who first brought to light the connection between parasitic infection and low lipid profiles in primitive human populations (I mentioned it briefly in my post about grain blamers). But if there was ever a contest between us, he won it last week by posting an excellent
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1 Jan 2013 at 5:35pm
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A friend contacted me this week to report that Mehmet Oz used his show to promote dangerous claims about cholesterol and heart disease. His guests were two long-time low-carb promoters, Johnny Bowden and Stephen Sinatra.
Both of them make a living by selling questionable supplements and deceptive
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26 Jan 2013 at 7:32am
A new study powerfully validates important points I repeatedly asserted in my cholesterol videos - heart disease risk is strongly mediated by lifetime cholesterol levels (rather than end-of-life levels) and LDL in particular is a key causal factor in heart disease. This elegant research by Dr Brian Ference of Wayne State University also further damages
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11 Apr 2012 at 6:42am
If you have watched my video addressing the relationship between cholesterol and cancer, you know that I have attributed any observations of low cholesterol among cancer patients to reverse causation. In apparent contradiction of this view are the recently announced results of a study lead by Dr Paul Lavigne which calls into doubt the reverse
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1 Apr 2012 at 7:20am
Running a Cholesterol Confusionist Gauntlet, Part 10 – Drug-Fueled Delusions
Cholesterol confusionists comb the literature on the effects of drugs looking for anomalies that they can take out of context and blow out of proportion. Here’s an example of how this works.
On the left, you see an excerpt from Colpo’s
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27 Mar 2012 at 6:54am
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