Jan 2, Gut health
Importance of healthy gut and good digestion for overall health. Causes of leaky gut, health consequences, diagnosing and treatment.
View ArticleJan 29, Glycemic index and glycemic load
Glycemic index and glycemic load are the measure of food's potential to rise body's blood glucose level. They are a handy tool for making sure that your diet avoids both, chronic excess and unhealthy...
View ArticleJan 30, Conventional Hodgkin's treatment: long-term mortality
Specific information on long-term morbidity and mortality of highly toxic conventional treatments for Hodgkin's lymphoma is - for some reason - hard to come by where it should be given to you: doctor's...
View ArticleFeb 10, Asthma risk and waist size in women
Does enlarged waist makes women more vulnerable to succumb to asthma? Some previous studies did find positive statistical link between overweight/obesity and asthma risk. A recent study indicates that...
View ArticleFeb 10, Autism epidemic worsening
Is the incidence of autism among U.S. children so high to justify calling it autism epidemic? If one looks at the percentage number, it appears to be rather low; even if it keeps increasing -...
View ArticleFeb 10, C. difficile warning
These days, anyone using medical services on a regular basis should be concerned about Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), tiny intestinal bug that can cause anything from severe diarrhea, colitis,...
View ArticleFeb 10, Folic acid studies
For a while, we thought of folic acid - the most common synthetic form of vitamin B9, or folate - as a good friend of our health. Then, just as we stepped into this new century, a string of folic acid...
View ArticleFeb 10, Healthier life
What is a year of life worth? Or years of a healthier life, not bothered by poor health? Their value seems to be low for those relatively young and healthy, skyrocketing the closer we get to life's...
View ArticleFeb 10, High-protein diet effects: study results
If you are living in the U.S. - or most any Western country - your protein intake is likely to be between elevated and high. Health wise, any dietary excess is undesirable, and proteins are no...
View ArticleFeb 10, Sweet, short life on high-sugar diet
Imagine you are a tiny little worm, happily feeding on bacteria, and also got lucky to have some steady sugar added to your diet. Everything looks - or should we say tastes - great ... until it's time...
View ArticleFeb 10, Rosuvastatin indication broadened
It shouldn't come as a surprise to see this news: on December 15th, FDA's advisory committee voted overwhelmingly (12 to 4) in favor of broadening indication for rosuvastatin - AstraZeneca's...
View ArticleFeb 10, Smoking health hazards: no dose-response
Some things we just know: for instance, a few cigarettes a day hardly can do any harm. Nothing to worry about. But a recent study on cardiovascular mortality and cigarette smoke begs to differ. Its...
View ArticleFeb 10, Health news 2010
Health news, commentaries on health-related articles, studies, research papaers, trials and events.
View ArticleFeb 10, Cellular metabolism
It matters a lot how good is the food you eat, and how efficient is your digestion. But it still isn't enough to guarantee health. It is the smallest piece of the puzzle - your cellular metabolism -...
View ArticleFeb 17, Antibiotic children
That sounds odd, doesn't it: antibiotic children? Even more so if you think of the inherent meaning of "antibiotic", which is pretty much the same as "anti-life". How could possibly children be...
View ArticleFeb 17, Physical activity benefits
Most anyone knows that physical activity benefits health. This view is supported by both, medical research and statistical data. Besides being in better overall shape, physically active individuals are...
View ArticleFeb 17, The MMR vaccine war: Wakefield vs ?
The rant against Dr. Andrew Wakefield, started in 2004 by Brian Deer's media feeds, escalated to a full-blown campaign, not only very unusual in the circles of high-level medical professionals, but...
View ArticleFeb 17, Wakefield autism study
Wakefield's autism study, implying causative link between "environmental triggers", including vaccination, and "developmental regression", mainly autism, has been fully retracted by Lancet at the...
View ArticleFeb 17, Wakefield proceedings: an exception?
Formal proceedings against a medical study author, such as the fiery controversy that has spun around Dr. Andrew Wakefield 1998 autism study, are extremely rare. Is the general absence of professional...
View ArticleFeb 17, Folic acid cancer risk
Are you confused? After over a decade of having our foods fortified with folic acid, studies are coming in with worrisome, consistent indications that the elevated intake of this form of vitamin B9 -...
View ArticleApr 18, Carbohydrate intake and body function
Types of carbohydrates, nutritional and caloric values, body function and health effects.
View ArticleApr 18, Dietary fat: good fats and bad fats
Not all fats are created equal: good fats we must have to maintain health, and bad fats rob us of it. A few of them are in between, or nearly neutral health-wise. Some of the good fats your body...
View ArticleApr 18, Optimum protein intake
Dietary protein intake and health consequences. Optimum daily protein intake and nutritionally good protein foods.
View ArticleApr 18, Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score - PDCAAS
Critical comments on the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score ( PDCAAS), the official FAO/WHO protein "quality" criterion.
View ArticleApr 18, Protein requirements
Requirements for dietary protein and essential amino acids, minimum and maximum safe intake and recommended daily intake.
View ArticleApr 20, Saturated fats and unsaturated fats
Characteristics, types and health significance of saturated and unsaturated dietary fats.
View ArticleJul 22, Hypertension and salt war
It is silent, but deadly: often without warning signs, high blood pressure (hypertension) kills well over 50,000 Americans each year. Moreover, it is among causative factors in another 300,000 deaths,...
View ArticleJul 22, Salt, hypertension, pride and careers
What is the factual basis, and the sequence of events, that made the view that dietary salt intake tends to raise blood pressure - so called salt hypothesis - become so deeply rooted in the field of...
View ArticleJul 22, Salt studies: the latest score
Why is it that after thousands of studies on the subject of salt and hypertension we don't seem to be anywhere close to consensus on whether the present salt consumption makes people sick, or not?
View ArticleJul 23, Do bone drugs work?
This month, many causal readers could caught headlines reporting of a recent study "adding more evidence that bone drugs work". Articles do not elaborate on what the old evidence is, but they are quick...
View ArticleJul 23, Diabetes vs. drugs, 3:0
If there were any doubts about the final score of the government's decade long "landmark study" aspiring to defeat diabetes by throwing best of drugs - and lots of them - at it, there's none left. Last...
View ArticleJul 23, From Dahl to INTERSALT
Dahl's study from 1960 was groundbreaking in that it turned to human populations to look for the evidence of salt-hypertension link. Dahl's data was scarce, and of uncertain quality, but the dramatic...
View ArticleJul 23, Hypertension risk: time to move beyond salt?
Is our present salt consumption unhealthful excess? The answer to that question is. like an open book, lying in front of our eyes. Wide range of salt intake levels in different countries and regions...
View ArticleJul 23, Is sodium bad for you?
Sodium is bio-electrolyte essential not only for maintaining optimum health, but for the very survival. No one disputes that fact. Without it, the subtle flow of electrical currents supporting life -...
View ArticleJul 24, Hypertension risk: time to move beyond salt?
The purpose of the entire recent move to reduce salt intake at the level of population is hopeful - but unsupported by the facts - expectation of significantly reduced rate of hypertension, and related...
View ArticleJan 22, Indoor air pollution and health
Sources of indoor air pollution, its effects on health and methods for minimizing the level of indoor air contaminants.
View ArticleJan 22, More irradiated foods from the FDA
Before the end of this month, irradiated spinach and iceberg lettuce will join the list of irradiated foods allowed by the FDA to be marketed to the general population. Is it good or bad?
View ArticleJan 22, JUPITER statin study
In case you were wondering why is this medical study named JUPITER (Justification for the Use of Statins in the Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin), the reason is probably that...
View ArticleJan 22, Symptoms diagnosis - or a medical label?
There is a basic misconception of what diagnosing a symptom is in conventional medicine. Medical diagnosis - or identifying illness or disorder - should tell you everything about your health problem,...
View ArticleJan 22, Protein quality
Are we mislead with the use of a term protein quality? A perfect protein food would contain just the right amount of protein, which itself would contain just the right proportion of non-essential and...
View ArticleJan 24, Kaylee Dixon - between forced surgery and cannabis oils
The story of Kaylee Dixon, a 13-year old from Oregon, who was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer, and is going through an ordeal between stste-inforced treatment and her mothers' alternative...
View ArticleJan 24, Accessory food nutrients
Main accessory food nutrients in human diet: nutritional importance and health benefits of phytochemicals, non-essential minerals and vitamins, lipoic acid, coenzyme Q10, choline, inositol...
View ArticleMar 24, Healing emotions for health
There is more to staying healthy than just physical health: you also need healthy emotions. And many people are lacking in this department. Most often it is not due to physiological disorder: it stems...
View ArticleApr 4, Help your mitochondria slow down aging
Role of mitochondria in aging; how to slow down aging by helping mitochondrial function.
View ArticleApr 4, Alzheimer's disease on the rise
Should we be worried about the 10% rise in Alzheimer's disease incidence in the U.S. in as little as 5 years (Alzheimer's Association), as reported in a recent Times Magazine article? Not only that it...
View ArticleApr 9, Kaylee Dixon - between forced surgery and cannabis oils
The story of Kaylee Dixon, a 13-year old from Oregon, who was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer, and is going through an ordeal between stste-inforced treatment and her mothers' alternative...
View ArticleMay 20, HealthKnot pages
Explores the link between health problems and nutrition, toxic exposures, genetic malfunction and emotions. Includes overview of medical diagnostic tests, health blog, and more.
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