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#4 of THE TOP 10 MOST IMPORTANT NUTRITION AND LIFESTYLE RESEARCH ARTICLES OF 2014

THE  TOP 10  MOST IMPORTANT NUTRITION AND LIFESTYLE RESEARCH ARTICLES OF 20014 Over the past year I’ve shared with you over seventy  postings containing the most important research findings reported in the areas of nutrition, natural treatments, and lifestyle factors that we in Integrative Medicine believe are the best treatments now and for the future. […]

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NEWS BULLETIN: Added Sugar Has A Greater Role Than Salt in High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease Risk

NEWS BULLETIN: Added Sugar Has A Greater Role Than Salt in High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease Risk

The online British Medical Journal Open Heart has just reported that an analysis of all current  available evidence shows  that we need to  drastically change the dietary advice that Americans  and Europeans are given regarding how to prevent heart disease.  There is more and more accumulating evidence that eating fat and salt, are  not the […]

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New Study Proves that Eating Saturated Fat Does Not Increase Fats in the Blood

New Study Proves that Eating Saturated Fat Does Not Increase Fats in the Blood

Going against the standard dietary advice that has been advocated for years,  a new controlled scientific study has shown that increasing levels of carbohydrate in the diet increases fats in the blood but increasing saturated fat does not.  Lead researcher J. Voleck of Ohio State University says that this new study “challenges the conventional wisdom […]

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Vitamin D Deficiency Associated with Poorer Outcomes after Cardic Arrest

Vitamin D Deficiency Associated with Poorer Outcomes after Cardic Arrest

Research presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the  European Society of Cardiology  in Geneva, Switzerland,  showed that patients who were Vitamin D deficient were much more likely to have a bad neurological outcome after sudden cardiac arrest than those who were not deficient. Vitamin D deficiency also led to a higher chance of dying […]

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Mindfulness Associated with Improved Cardiovascular Health

Mindfulness Associated with Improved Cardiovascular Health

The term “mindfulness “, an awareness of one’s own thoughts and feelings has generally been associated with meditation, and achieving stress relief and better mental health. Best selling author-psychologist Jon-Kabat Zinn ph.D., has written extensively on this including his best selling books Mindfulness Meditation, and Full Catastrophy Living. Now, researchers from Brown University have published […]

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Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Good for Your Mental Health, Research Says

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Good for Your Mental Health, Research Says

Eating fruits and vegetable could very good for you mentally, as well as physically. There are many benefits of eating fruits and vegetables that have been cleary shown in research, such as lowering cardiovascular disease risk and lowering the risk of many cancers. Now, newly published research that investigated “mental well being”, found that high […]

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“Healthy Lifestyle Choices May DRAMATICALLY REDUCE THE RISK OF HEART ATTACK IN MEN”

According to newly published research from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the big news is that fully 80% or more of the heart attacks occurring in men are preventable by a healthy lifestyle. And importantly, even if healthier lifestyle changes are made after someone is already on medication for medical problems, they […]

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Treatment of Insomnia Shown to Lower Inflammation Marker CRP

Treatment of Insomnia Shown to Lower Inflammation Marker CRP

Insomnia causes the elevation of CRP (C-reactive protein) an inflammatory marker that has been associated with the development of many chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, and heart disease. A study just published in the journal Sleep, from the UCLA Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, has shown that successfully treating insomnia with Cognitive […]

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