by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 2, 2016 | Nutrition
• A review of 14 studies shows that people who ate nuts five times a week had a significantly lower rate of heart disease than those who ate less or none (Coron Artery Dis, 2016 May;27(3):227-32). The rate of heart disease decreased by 10 percent for every...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 18, 2016 | Nutrition
My faith in several of my Harvard mentors during the 1950s and 1960s has been shattered by an article that appeared this week in JAMA Internal Medicine (September 12, 2016). Cristin E. Kearns, a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, discovered letters in the archives at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 11, 2016 | Nutrition
This month two strong studies show that 1) giving people with heart disease a diet that is high in fruits and vegetables and low in red meat is more effective than taking statin drugs in preventing heart attack deaths, and 2) eating red meat regularly increases risk...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 4, 2016 | Nutrition
A report from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study of more than 126,000 men and women who have been followed for 32 years shows that increasing total fat intake is associated with decreasing risk of death (JAMA Intern Med, August...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 28, 2016 | Nutrition
Obese people who have taken aspartame or saccharin in the last 24 hours had higher blood sugar rises after taking sugar than those who had not used artificial sweeteners (Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, May 24, 2016). Lead author Dr. Jennifer Kuk says,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 14, 2016 | Nutrition
Three large studies provide more support for a primarily plant-based diet. Two of the studies compared dietary protein from plants and animals and the third one compared dietary fats from plant or animal sources. Comparing Protein Sources: Researchers at Harvard...
