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Are fat people just lazy Or is it in their genes Let's look at an unlikely place for the answer an AA meeting. If you get up and say "My name is Jane, and I'm not really an alcoholic, I don't drink that much..." they throw you out. They welcome you back, once you say "My name is Jane ...
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The non-sense of vitamin supplementationAlmost one in two American adults is a regular user of vitamin and mineral supplements, either in the form of single- or multivitaminmineral formulations MVMS. It all adds up to a market of US 9 Billion annually, or one third of the total US supplements market...
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Does red meat kill you Only in a vegetarian's dream Red meat is the favorite enemy of nutritionists nowadays. Their studies and publications are often ab-used by those evangelical vegetarian types who would love to impose their no-meat religion on the rest of us. Don't buy it. Now let me show you ho...
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When risk scores really suck.If you are a man aged 55 or younger, or a woman aged 65 or younger and have had your risk for heart attack and stroke profiled recently, chances are your doctor told you that you have a low risk. So you probably walked out of her clinic, seeing no reason to change your l...
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Into the age of chronic health.My yesterday's post was all about what's holding us back from achieving chronic health for everybody. Today I want to look at the three important steps we can do right now to enter the age of chronic health and longevity. Incentivize health Earlier this year Standard &...
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