Diabetes and heart disease
Customer Review: Well-written overview of the role of homocysteine in CVD
McCully is a pioneer in understanding the causes of heart disease and for pinpointing the importance of keeping homocysteine levels low, not only for avoiding heart disease, but in general to reduce free radical damage. He advocates a healthy diet as a basis and supplements when needed, arguing that a paleolithic fare would be the ideal. Two points do not seem logical: He does play down the importance of healthy fat in the etiology of heart disease, the unhealthy fats being trans fatty acids and peroxidized fats. In spite of this he recommends keeping the fat intake below 35% of energy, in my mind not warrented by the fact that CVD-free Inuits may ingest as much as 80% of their energy as fats. His preference for paleo diets does not prevent him from recommending whole grains, known to contain lectins which may damage our health, even if he mentiones the fact that Homo sapiens cannot have adapted to grains since the beginning of agriculture only 10.000 years ago. This much said, the book is highly recommended for its clarity of thought and for letting us in on the sad state of affairs in scientific circles, preventing truth to prevail over dogma.
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, PhD
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Hopping for a cure
Beacon News - There’s no known cure or treatment, despite the fact that 250,000 Americans suffer from some form of muscular DMD slowly deteriorates the body as muscles waste away, and those with the disease typically die of heart or lung failure.
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Moving beyond ‘more is better’
Minneapolis Star Tribune - has created a medical system that succeeds brilliantly at paying doctors and hospitals to do myriad procedures to cure Cardiologists for heart disease. Nephrologists for kidneys. Oncologists for cancer.
Source: www.startribune.com
Student raises awareness of African issues
Des Moines Register - Africa is filled with poverty and disease, Moses tells his classmates. Some 14 It hurts my heart,” said Leah Thiessen, a junior. “It’s so easy. People don’t even supporting the boarding school his father started in Kenya - Moses wants to cure
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com
Give to others, get fit
Orlando Sentinel - vowed not to stop raising money for breast cancer education and research until the disease is eliminated. Several years later, the “Race for the Cure We all know someone with cancer, heart disease, leukemia or one of many conditions medicine is
Source: www.orlandosentinel.com
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