by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 23, 2018 | Nutrition
A study in mice shows that a ketogenic diet, where you get most of your calories from fat, may cause diabetes (Journal of Physiology, August 8, 2018). A keto diet requires you to severely restrict carbohydrates and proteins, so your body uses fat as its main source of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 9, 2018 | Nutrition
The PURE (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology) Study, reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich on August 28, 2018, concludes that increasing intake of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, fish, dairy and non-processed red meat is linked to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 4, 2018 | Nutrition
This year, researchers have identified the CMAH gene in meat, dairy, and even caviar from some fish that produces a sugar-protein called Neu5Gc, which may explain the association between eating red meat and increased risk for certain cancers (Genome Biol Evol, Jan 1,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 2, 2018 | Nutrition
A recent news headline proclaimed, "An Egg a Day May Keep Heart Disease Away" (Time, May 21, 2018), based on a study of 512,891 adults in urban and rural areas of China. Those who ate one egg a day were reported to have an 18 percent reduced incidence of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 12, 2018 | Nutrition
Researchers followed 38,981 adults for 16 years (1999-2014) and found that those who ate the most vegetables and the widest variety of vegetables, particularly dark green vegetables, had the lowest rate of heart attacks and heart disease (Nutrition Journal, July 10,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 29, 2018 | Nutrition
A review of 79 randomized and controlled studies of more than 110,000 men and women, with or without heart disease, showed that omega-3 fats in fish oil or in cod liver oil pills, taken for one to six years, do not prevent heart attacks, strokes or deaths in general...
