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Reply: Which one is best Yoga OR Machine Exercise?

As a man I find yoga very difficult, maybe because I like weight training and I am not patient. But I do...

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Reply: Losing weight.

to help with the COPD it's essential to assure an adequate intake of protein cause it reduces the risk of...

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Reply: raspberry ketone

I was wondering what all the fuss is about with raspberry keytones since I have taken them on their own and...

Posted by An_266929

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Reply: Can Diabetic Retinopathy be reversed?

EG,I watch those videos all the time.They are excellent.

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Reply: Migraines and sugar

Hi An_260852, Many folks on www.drfuhrman.com (Dr. Fuhrman's diet, most recent is "The End of Dieting")...

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Diet tips &low-back pain.

Before you start diet,ask god first to make you thinner.Set your goals,by current weight to your idea...

Posted by carlo1

Take the Poll

Men/women:Do your body good/do nothing,get the pains.

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Reply: prostate cancer

that's a good question. It looks like the conclusion was the diet helped but not significantly. I also wonder...

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Reply: HERETIC WAS RIGHT !!

I was on the net trying to find some credible evidence about osteoporosis, diet, vitamins etc. I could not, in...

Posted by max9821

I was on the net trying to find some credible evidence about osteoporosis, diet, vitamins etc. I could not, in the short time I was looking, find anything that didn't have another article disagreeing with it.

I read that the elderly in nursing homes have less hip fracture with a combination of calcium and vitamin D. That in the elderly, more protein means less bone fracture. I also read that the eskimos and scandinavians have what might be the highest rate of osteoporosis.

The eskimo eat plenty of protein and also bones from the fish which means they are getting plenty of protein and calcium. Of course they do not get vitamin D from plenty of sunshine but they do consume fish and oils which have D.

Scandinavians consume lots of dairy.

Bantu women consume only about 350 mgs calcium per day, give birth to and nurse several children and do not get osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis and hip fracture has been increasing all over the world except in some places where it increased then leveled out.

One article said fruits and vegetables are known to help prevent osteoporosis.

If the rates of hip and spine fracture are increasing in the US then it has to be mostly among meat, fat and dairy eaters primarily because there are lots more of them and only a very few percent of the population are vegan. So go to any hospital or nursing home and count the number of hip fractures and determine what percentage of patients are vegan and what percent meat and dairy eaters. There should be a smaller number of vegan fracture patients simply because there are far fewer vegans. If there are lots of them compared to meat eaters, or lots of them percentage wise compared to all vegans then that says something too.

If protein is important in preventing osteoporosis and improving bone health does that mean that beans and other high protein plant foods will do the job as well? Or not?

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Reply: Dr Mann

He continued to eat a diet of meat and fat almost with total abandon.He lived here in Nashville,TN and taught...

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Reply: Dolores

I am still experimenting but I could swear that my bp is lower when I drink a third of a cup of pomegranate...

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Reply: rice? starch?

May not be very much but enough to make a difference in the study.Why do you say it does not tell us anything...

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Reply: new trial

OK. Human infants do need animal fat. They get it from an animal, their own mothers--- via the milk of their...

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Reply: fuhrman's products

cranberries, which I don't eat because I can't eat them without sugar, have lots of iodine if grown near the...

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Reply: potatoes,white

ATHENS, GREECE — There is no real "debate" over the dangers of dietary salt as a cause of cardiovascular...

Posted by jc3737

ATHENS, GREECE — There is no real "debate" over the dangers of dietary salt as a cause of cardiovascular disease, and physicians need to take a more active role educating the public, supporting high-quality science, and participating in initiatives to reduce salt intake at the population level.
Those were the key messages of a no-holds-barred session on dietary sodium and hypertension earlier this week at HYPERTENSION 2014 , the joint conference of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and theInternational Society of Hypertension (ISH).
Any "controversy" over whether dietary salt is a cause of heart disease and stroke is the result of weak research methodology or commercial interference, Dr Norm Campbell (Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary) and DrGraham MacGregor (Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, UK) argued here.
"One of the challenges," said Campbell, "is to recognize that most of the effort to reduce dietary salt is not based on 100% conclusive data from multiple randomized trials, with hard outcomes, as we might expect from the pharmaceutical industry. It's an incomplete database, and that allows fertile ground for controversy. . . . In addition, because there is so much salt in our environment, we don't have a lot of studies where people are consuming less than 2300 mg of sodium per day."
Related to that, he added, is the glut of low-quality studies that have relied on flawed measures of sodium consumption. Both Campbell and MacGregor roundly dismissed the use of spot urine analyses as a hopeless means of estimating sodium consumption, coupled with the difficulties of accurately measuring blood pressure in large population studies.
When a member of the audience pointed to the PURE analysis showing that most of the world eats much higher levels of sodium than those recommended by most international organizations, MacGregor and Campbell leaped on this as an example of a study that had radically failed to measure salt in an appropriate fashion, even devising a new "formula" to estimate salt intake because even spot urine testing had been inadequate. "Please let [PURE principal investigator Dr> Salim Yusuf [McMaster University, Hamilton, ON> know that he should stop using spot urine analysis," MacGregor said curtly.

Poor-Quality Studies Often Reflect Commercial Meddling
"It's also important that we recognize the extent of commercial interference," Campbell continued. "This is a growing area of research. There are some academics who have financial interests in the salt and food industries [who have published misleading papers>, and we have very prominent journals, I'll mention JAMA in particular, that publish studies that probably would have [never been printed> if a medical student had tried to publish them" and that appear to be hoping to increase citations and publicity by publishing contradictory papers.
But in fact, when international and national organizations have done rigorous reviews of the literature, omitting low-quality data, they've come up with recommendations that clearly support lowering salt intake to prevent stroke and cardiac diseases, Campbell said. Doctors have a responsibility to acquaint themselves with these recommendations, then educate their peers and patients, he added.View Thread

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Reply: triglycerides

I take a 150mcg supplement of potassium iodide daily.Thats not enough to cause problems but enough to correct...

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Reply: cure for high triglycerides

I stand corrected about Dr fFhrmans stance on oils.I reread some of what he says in Eat to Live and Super...

Posted by jc3737

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salt

Many studies that show low sodium to be a problem are flawed meta-analysis studies that are paid for by the salt...

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from the past

http://forums.webmd.com/3/diet-debate/forum/62/5

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Reply: 1 hr post prandial blood glucose

PSA does go down.If it bounces around that indicates a lower probability of cancer but when it goes steadily up...

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Reply: prostate cancer

Look at the title of the article.It mentions that its the flax seed that is responsible for inhibiting prostate...

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antioxidants harmful?

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Reply: olive oil healthy?

Do you have a link to that study?

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Reply: salt

I think I pointed out on another group that giving saline solutions is a medical treatment given for a specific...

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Reply: omega 3s and PC

Those with higher levels of omega 3 probably eat more fish.Fish is animal protein which Dr Campbell links to...

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fat and cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10325493

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Zeal for Life

I couldn't find my old post so I'm not sure what happened to it. I have back problems, panic issues and...

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Reply: walnut oil

I taking 3 tablespoons per day.

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Reply: low fat vegan diet

nope. still can't get it. really weird. dolores

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A Website For Oils

http://oilhealthbenefits.com

This website is a useful resource on the health benefits and uses of oils. One can find out how to use a...

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Reply: Austrian study - vegetarians less healthy

I also believe there were very few vegetarians in the study and they labelled as vegetarians those who were...

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