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REAL-News --September-20181Oct 10

October 10, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 2: Diet, Disease and Controversy

This is the second part of a previous blog post (“Life Changes: Diet for Living”) for which I will be offering more and more controversial information pertaining to diet and heart disease. There are many alternative diets out there; and in the more recent years, keto, carnivore, and animal-based diets have been on the rise.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Cholesterol, diet, HDL, high protein diet, keto, ketogenesis, LDL

Feb 15, 2016

February 15, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Eggs – or at Least One Egg – Won’t Kill You

It came out last year or so that eating cholesterol-rich foods ain’t as bad as they once thought. Now this says an egg a day won’t kill you…but the bacon, well, they just don’t know yet: http://www.healthcanal.com/blood-heart-circulation/heart-disease/70334-high-cholesterol-diet-eating-eggs-do-not-increase-risk-of-heart-attack-not-even-in-persons-genetically-predisposed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+healthnewshc%2FOxfp+%28Health+News+from+HealthCanal.com%29 

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diet, dieting, Heart Health, LDL

Feb 09, 2016

February 9, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Eat Nuts, Reduce Cholesterol, and Prevent Diabetes

How is it possible for one food item – in particular, nut oils – to virtually do what so many drugs portend to do? How can nuts do so much for so little without so much as a side effect other than, oh, say, a little more healthfulness without pharmaceuticals.  It would be great ifRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, dieting, HDL, Heart Health, LDL, lose weight

Jan 16

January 16, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Cholesterol, Heart Health, and (of course) Exercise

It would be foolish of me to expound on something so scientifically-complex as molecular biology, so I won’t. But a research finding by a team at my alma mater, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), is worth noting because it speaks to the complexity of the biological sciences as it pertains to how we, as real humansRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Cholesterol, HDL, Heart Health, LDL, throwing a clot

Are All Fats Risky?Nov 11

November 11, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

Dr Oz and the ‘truth’ about cholesterol

A client suggested I watch a segment of Dr. Oz’s show from December 2012 with two guests, a cardiologist, steven sinatra, and a ph.d. in nutrition whose name escapes me. They’d just written a controversial book on “Everything you know about cholesterol is wrong.” it’s worth watching even if it’s a bit of a salesRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: calorie burn, coronary artery disease, HDL, high blood sugar, LDL

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