by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2013 | Heart Health
It takes only two weeks for a diet to lower cholesterol as much as it is going to do. You lower cholesterol by replacing saturated fats from animals with polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats from plants, and by restricting refined carbohydrates found in bakery...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2013 | Heart Health
Changes in diet should be the first strategy for anyone with high blood pressure, but most people will need to make drastic changes in their eating habits to succeed. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have shown why the DASH diet lowers high blood...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2013 | Heart Health
Your leg muscles function like a second heart to pump fluid from your legs to your heart. When your leg muscles relax, the veins near them fill up with blood. When your leg muscles contract, they compress the veins and squeeze blood up toward your heart. When you...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2013 | Heart Health
A regular exercise program helps to lower high blood levels of homocysteine, according to a study from multiple medical centers (European Journal of Applied Physiology, November 2006). High blood levels of homocysteine increase your risk for heart attacks, but at this...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2013 | Diabetes
In April 2000, a study from the Air Force was widely reported in newspapers to have shown that agent orange causes diabetes. Only Gina Kolata, a science and health writer for the New York Times, got the story right (NYT, April 20, 2000). The study authors found that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2013 | Diabetes
A study from Italy shows that more than 56 percent of diabetic men suffer from impotence, and almost all complain bitterly that it has destroyed something that is very important to them. The study also shows that most men who are impotent from diabetes are depressed....
