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SAFETY & EFFICACY OF CARB RESTRICTION
The low carb, calorie unrestricted diets often produce the most weight loss, larger increases in HDL, and larger decreases triglycerides when compared to a low fat, calorie-restricted diet. More > |
DIETARY CHOLESTEROL & HEALTH EFFECTS
Contrary to popular belief, since the early 1950s it has been consistently demonstrated that dietary cholesterol has a minimal and often non-existent effect on blood cholesterol. More > |
SATURATED FATS AND HEART DISEASE
Eating polyunsaturated fats in place of saturated fats does lower blood cholesterol levels. However, the evidence that this phenomenon results in less heart disease is not clear. Review the clinical trials here. More > |
OBSERVATIONAL HEART DISEASE STUDIES
The majority of observational studies looking at saturated fat's effect on heart disease have found no association. It is very difficult to study this relationship, and the resulting data is subject to bias. More > |
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Short and sweet, nine minute video of Dr. Dayspring and Gary Taubes describing adipose tissue physiology and regulation as eloquently as only they can.
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Dr. David Newman, MD is an Emergency Physician and Director of Clinical Research at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Here he talks about the NNT.com, an amazing resource to assess the safety and effectiveness of medicines and treatments that patients can easily understand.
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CONSUMER DRIVEN HEALTHCARE
After the needless death of his father, David Goldhill, CEO of the Game Show Network, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form. And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix it. Here’s a radical solution to an agonizing problem. You can also read his famous Atlantic article here.
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Dr. Keith Smith, co-founder and managing partner of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, took an initiative that would only be considered radical in the health care industry: He posted online a list of prices for 112 common surgical procedures. What resulted was a massive influx from Canadians, and Americans all over the country to pay out of pocket a reasonable price for surgeries that local hospitals charge $50,000 for.
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Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH is a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist with a masters in public health from Johns Hopkins. He's been called "The Doctor of the Future" and one of the "Top Ten Most Creative People in Healthcare" by Fast Company. Esquire Magazine included him in 2009′s "Best and Brightest: Radicals and Rebels Who Are Changing the World" issue.
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