How Excess Salt Affects You

How Excess Salt Affects You

Two excellent studies from Germany and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee tell us that us excess salt:• causes hunger, rather than thirst• breaks down muscle and fat• may be a primary dietary factor in the high rates of obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and strokes in...
How Excess Salt Affects You

Energy Drinks

Energy drinks can raise blood pressure and may cause irregular heartbeats, according to a study conducted at Travis Air Force Base in California (Journal of the American Heart Association, April 26, 2017;6(5)). This extremely well-planned, performed and controlled...
How Excess Salt Affects You

Artificial Sweeteners, Dementia and Strokes

People who take one diet soda a day are nearly three times more likely than non-diet soda drinkers to suffer a stroke or to become demented, according to a study published in Stroke (April 20, 2017). Both sugar drinkers and artificial-sweetener drinkers were at...
How Excess Salt Affects You

Vitamin D Recommendations

Nearly 20 percent of North American adults take vitamin D pills. It is true that it is difficult to get adequate levels of vitamin D from sunshine during the winter months, but vitamin D is not a miracle vitamin that treats and prevents all sorts of diseases. A recent...
How Excess Salt Affects You

No Amount of Overweight is Healthful

Researchers at Boston University and Harvard reviewed three studies following more than 225,000 adults over age 50, for eight to twenty years, and showed that being even slightly overweight can increase your risk of dying by six percent, and in those who are obese, by...