by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 16, 2016 | Nutrition
North Americans consume an average of 50 gallons of soda per year, making them the largest consumers of sugared drinks in the world. The Centers for Disease Control says that two-thirds of the added sugar consumed in the U.S. comes from processed foods (breakfast...
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,...
