Replace Processed Foods with Whole Foods. Processed foods are ubiquitous. Most prepackaged baked goods such as cakes, cookies, cupcakes, brownies are highly processed. Processed meats like hot dogs, cold cuts, sausages and bacon are also problematic. Frozen preprepared dinners contain a lot of preservatives as well. Foods...
Congestive Heart Failure patients often have limited exercise capacity even making movements for everyday living a struggle. Medications may help but often the effects are limited. In a study published in the January 5, 2016 edition of JAMA, a study found that weight loss of 7-10%...
Recently a study of over 138,000 participants looked to see if high stress jobs increase our risk for strokes. The study followed these middle-aged adults for approximately 10 years. Job Strain was categorized into 4 groups as follows: High Strain (High demand, low control) - include jobs...
Management of Testosterone Deficiency remains extremely controversial. A recent Canadian task force reviewed all the literature available on the topic from 1/09 - 4/14. This is the best review of testosterone supplementation that I have found. A summary of their findings is listed below. Symptoms that...
Waist-to-Hip ratio appears to be a better predictor of Cardiovascular risk than BMI. Men with waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) ≥0.90 and women with WHR ≥0.85 were considered to be centrally obese. A person with a normal BMI and central obesity had a higher mortality risk than did...
One of the leading causes of erectile dysfunction is vascular disease. This same disease process that causes heart attacks can also lead to ED. An interesting study presented to the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2014 and published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine March...
This study compared people drinking the energy drink Rockstar vs a Placebo. 30 minutes after drinking the energy drink, patient's blood pressure increased twice as much as the placebo group. Norepinephrine, one of our stress hormones, also increased by twice as much. Wether this has...
"Regular consumption of coffee was inversely associated with risk of total mortality, and mortality due to cardiovascular disease and neurological disease." What does that mean? Coffee drinking, at least in this study, showed a protective affect against dying from heart attacks and Neurologic disorders such...