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Life-Changes:-Diet-for- LivingAug 24

August 24, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

Life Changes: Diet for Living

The link between nutrition and heart disease has been up for debate since the 1960s. We can attribute the beginnings of the major research behind this topic to Dr. Ancel Keys, a physiologist. He determined that arterial plaques contain cholesterol, cholesterol tends to be related to saturated fat, and that heart disease is related to saturatedRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, heart disease, metabolic disease, metabolism, nutrition, weight loss

Part-1:-The-Diet-Obesity-Debates-Continue1Jan 16

January 16, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Soda Safety…Again

Not long ago, I wrote about the ongoing controversy with artificial sweeteners in the American diet and culture. An article from September 2019 in the Washington Post brings more to bear on this topic, not for the findings but for the conversation around them. First, the article addresses the results of a European study inRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: artificial sweeteners, coronary heart disease, diet, heart disease, soda, sugar, weight management

Fit-Happens --Winter-2024Mar 14

March 14, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Obesity and Heart Disease: Fraternal but Not Identical Twins

The weight-related health crises that developed and now lesser-developed nations are facing cannot be ignored but also cannot be solved readily. Despite the available science – of nutrition and of activity – does not impact human behavior as rational economists would have assumed until 2008. That was when the world took notice that (1) humansRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: behavioral economics, healthy lifestyle, heart disease, obesity, obesity paradox, rational economics

Feet:-From-the-Ground-Up1Feb 06

February 6, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News February 2017

February 2017 A 30-Minute Substitution May Save Years of Life So much has been written lately, in the research journals and here in STEPS newsletters and blogs, on the hazards of sedentary living. It is now considered to be the primary reason for so many of the lifestyle-related diseases that haunt modern society – diabetes,Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: cancer, diabetes, heart disease, metabolic disease

Dec 05, 2014

December 5, 2014 By Irv Rubenstein

Calories, Disease, Exercise…and Longevity

This blog has every intention to summarize the health care crisis faced by modern and third world people resulting from the ready availability of cheap calories and sedentary living. One simple article in HealthNewsCanal (http://www.healthcanal.com/metabolic-problems/obesity/58073-obesity-may-…) used mathematical modeling to determine the effect of being overweight or obese on longevity and, uniquely, “healthy-life years”. By wayRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diabetes, heart disease, overweight, sedentary lifestyle

May 28, 2010

May 28, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Clarification and Addition

In an earlier post this evening, I referred to a study mentioned in the Tufts Nutrition Letter re calcium supplements not being beneficial to prevent heart disease. However, a Swedish study did show that calcium intake did correlate with reduced risk of heart disease in men. It was a very large epidemiological study which givesRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: heart disease, nutrition, suppliments, vitamins

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