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The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100

The Okinawa Diet Living to 100, The dietary guidelines recommend that we try to choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients, but lower in calories to reduce the risk of chronic disease By this measure. The healthiest foods on the planet, the most nutrient-dense, are vegetables containing the most nutrient bang for our…

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How Much Exercise to Sustain Weight Loss?

  “How many exercises to Sustain Weight Loss” Right now, almost 2/3 of Americans are overweight. And by 2030, more than 1/2 our population may be clinically obese. Childhood obesity has tripled and most of them will grow up to be overweight as well. The United States may be raising the first generation since our…

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How Much Exercise to Sustain Weight Loss?

  “How many exercises to Sustain Weight Loss” Right now, almost 2/3 of Americans are overweight. And by 2030, more than 1/2 our population may be clinically obese. Childhood obesity has tripled and most of them will grow up to be overweight as well. The United States may be raising the first generation since our…

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Flashback Friday: Do Vitamin D Supplements Help with Diabetes, Weight Loss, and Blood Pressure?

Do Vitamin D Supplements Help with Diabetes, Weight Loss, and Blood Pressure? My last in-depth, video series on vitamin D was done more than 4 years ago, as in 15 950 papers ago, I had a lot of catching up to do. Review articles like this continue to be published touting vitamin D as a…

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Flashback Friday: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death

“Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death” In past years, I’ve addressed the most pressing dietary issues of our time, like what’s the healthiest variety of apple, or what’s the most nutritious nut or dried fruit, or what’s the best bean, what’s the best berry? What’s the best bowel movement? We had fun. People got to…

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How Not to Die: An Animated Summary

“How Not to Die: An Animated Summary” It all started with my grandma. I was just a kid when the doctors sent my grandma home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she had already had so many bypass operations that the surgeons essentially ran out of plumbing. Confined to a wheelchair.…

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