Best Diet to Prevent and Treat Diabetes

Best Diet to Prevent and Treat Diabetes

More than 30 million adults in North America suffer from diabetes and another 85 million have pre-diabetes that is likely to become full-blown diabetes within five years. Research papers published this month suggest that people who are diabetic or likely to become...
Stable Plaques: Why Exercisers Have Fewer Heart Attacks?

Daily Aspirin May Not Save Lives

See Daily Aspirin is Beneficial Primarily for People at High Risk for a Heart Attack Just about everyone agrees that aspirin helps to prevent heart attacks by keeping clots from forming, but a major side effect of daily aspirin is increased risk for bleeding.  Almost...
Sunlight: More than Vitamin D

Sunlight: More than Vitamin D

For many years I have offered my opinion that sunlight provides benefits that are not gained just from taking vitamin D pills. Recent research is confirming that opinion, and many scientists now believe that low vitamin D blood levels are only a marker for not getting...
Knee Pain: Treat with Lifestyle Changes

Knee Pain: Treat with Lifestyle Changes

A review of 47 studies on 22,037 patients with knee osteoarthritis treated for at least 12 months showed no clear difference in controlling long-term pain between medications and placebos (JAMA, 2018;320(24):2564-2579). There was a slight time-limited pain control...