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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens | Mother Jones | November 1, 2012

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? Read More »

Butter And Cheese Better Than Trans-Fat Margarines, Says Heart Specialist

Sarah Boseley | The Guardian | October 22, 2013

Aseem Malhotra says saturated fat is not a problem, low-fat products are often full of sugar and statins are over-prescribed Read More »

Butter Is Bad – A Myth We've Been Fed By The 'Healthy Eating' Industry

Joanna Blythman | The Guardian | October 23, 2013

Medics are saying saturated fat may not be the devil incarnate. Just don't expect an apology from low-fat food purveyors Read More »

Changes In The Health Care System Driven By Self-Service And DIY Health

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | O'Reilly Data | April 22, 2014

Health care is migrating from the bricks-and-mortar doctor’s office or care clinic to the person him or herself at home and on-the-go–where people live, work, play, and pray. As people take on more do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to everyday life–investing money on financial services websites, booking airline tickets and hotel rooms online, and securing dinner reservations via OpenTable–many also ask why they can’t have more convenient access to health care, like emailing doctors and looking into lab test results in digital personal health records.

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Chronic Health Conditions Plague Half Of All American Adults, CDC Reports

Thomas Carannante | HNGN | July 2, 2014

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of all American adults - approximately 117 million people - suffer from one or more chronic health conditions...

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Does Gum Disease Have a Link to Cancer, Dementia, Stroke?

Suzanne Allard Levingston | The Washington Post | October 1, 2016

Open wide. There’s a host of researchers peering inside your mouth, and you may be surprised at what they hope to find. They’re looking for a connection between gum disease and illnesses such as breast cancer and even dementia. What they’re seeing in there is intriguing: possible relationships between gum or periodontal disease and diabetes, heart disease, stroke and at-risk pregnancies. Some studies have been pursuing an association between bleeding gums and pancreatic cancer. Others are looking at whether there’s a connection between mouth bacteria and Alzheimer’s...

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Don’t Give More Patients Statins

John D. Abramson and Rita F. Redberg | New York Times | November 13, 2013

ON Tuesday, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology issued new cholesterol guidelines that essentially declared, in one fell swoop, that millions of healthy Americans should immediately start taking pills — namely statins — for undefined health “benefits.” Read More »

Getting Enough Vitamin D: More Than Milk And Sunshine

Celeste Headlee | NPR | April 14, 2014

New research finds that people with low levels of vitamin D are more likely to die from cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. Nutrition professor and author Marion Nestle explains. Read More »

Government Attacked Over Deals With Fast-Food Industry: ‘Pure Illusion’ To Think This Approach Can Cut Obesity

Charlie Cooper | The Independent | February 3, 2014

Scathing World Health Organisation report warns UK cannot tackle epidemic unless Government changes policy Read More »

Hospitals Shifting Away From Sugar Drinks, Report Finds

Staff Writer | Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) | April 4, 2014

Are sugary drinks in America's hospitals finally getting their discharge papers? That's the case for at least 11 hospitals highlighted in a new paper from the nonprofit groups Center for Science in the Public Interest and Health Care Without Harm. [...] Read More »

How Americans Got Red Meat Wrong

Nina Teicholz | The Atlantic | June 2, 2014

Early diets in the country weren't as plant-based as you might think...

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IBM To Help Doctors Fight Heart Disease With Smarter Use Of Data

Andy Patrizio | CITE World | October 11, 2013

IBM Research, Sutter Health, and Geisinger Health System have been granted $2 million for a joint research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new type of analytics and application methods that could help doctors detect heart failure years earlier than they do now. Read More »

Is Paying for Un-Healthiness the Core Problem with the US Healthcare System?

Health care needs a better business model. HHS reports that U.S. health care spending will surpass $10,000 per person this year, will grow almost 6% annually for the foreseeable future, and will consume over 20% of GDP by 2025.  About half of our spending goes for labor costs, with health care employment remaining one of the "bright spots" in our economy.  Indeed, health care jobs continued to soar even when the economy tanked in our most recent recession. Despite that steady growth, we continue to talk about a physician shortage, especially for primary care.  Medical school enrollment is at new highs, yet it is not projected to dent the demand...

 

Latest “Red Meat Study” Doubly Flawed

Staff Writer | Designs For Health | April 17, 2013

No, meat is not unsafe—nor is L-carnitine.A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine associates the amino acid L-carnitine, found in red meat, supplements, and sports supplements, with the risk of heart disease. Read More »

New Evidence That Sugar Is Harming Our Hearts

Alice G. Walton | Forbes | February 3, 2014

If the torrent of studies suggesting that sugar is bad for our health wasn’t quite enough, new research again suggests that added dietary sugar increases the risk of death from heart disease. Read More »