by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2021 | Nutrition
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) found that daily consumption of starchy snacks made from flour was associated with a 50 percent increased risk of death from all causes and a 44-57 percent increased risk of death from a heart attack (J of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 5, 2021 | Nutrition
With the ever-increasing epidemic of obesity in North America, more than 70 percent of adults and almost 20 percent of children are overweight, which increases risk for heart attacks, diabetes, strokes, arthritis, and some types of cancers. A recent review of the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 1, 2021 | Nutrition
Two studies show that the more processed foods you eat, the more likely you are to suffer a heart attack or colon cancer: • Researchers followed 3,000 middle-aged people, average age 53, for 18 years and found out that the more ultra-processed foods they ate, the more...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 14, 2021 | Nutrition
Eating more fruits and vegetables, and restricting meat, egg yolks and non-fermented dairy products, can help to reduce your chances of suffering a heart attack (J Amer Coll of Cardiol, 2020;75(7):763–72) and certain cancers (BMC Genomics, June 11, 2016;16(Suppl...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 12, 2021 | Nutrition
Organic fresh produce sales in 2020 were $8.54 billion, an increase of over $1 billion from 2019. A very sobering study of 55 rice types found that organic rice contained significantly more arsenic than non-organic rice. More than half of the rice samples were...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 29, 2021 | Nutrition
A review of 17 different studies involving more than 560,000 people who suffered 37,000 heart attacks and strokes, followed for 10 years, found that compared to those who ate the lowest amount of fried food per week, those who ate the most suffered: • a 28 percent...
