by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 24, 2016 | Nutrition
Fish oil pills are the third most-bought food supplement, after vitamins and minerals, and are bought by 10 percent of North Americans at a cost of about $1.2 billion each year. Fish oil pills have not been shown to help prevent heart attacks, even though people who...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 17, 2016 | Nutrition
North Americans are killing themselves by eating too much of the wrong foods. Half of all U.S. adults suffer from chronic diseases caused by unhealthful diets and two-thirds are markedly overweight. To help correct this, the Dietary Guidelines issued in 2016 by the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2016 | Nutrition
The average North American takes in 150 to 200 pounds of sugar a year. Most of your sugar intake comes from added sugars in drinks and packaged, frozen and canned foods that you buy in grocery stores or eat in restaurants. More than 75 percent of the packaged foods in...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 22, 2015 | Nutrition
A review of 61 studies shows that feeding people one ounce of tree nuts per day for three to 26 weeks helped to lower total cholesterol, the harmful LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and Apo B, the main fat-protein in VLDL and LDL (American Journal of Clinical...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 8, 2015 | Nutrition
This month, a study of more than 15,000 Brazilians showed that people who eat and drink full-fat dairy products such as whole milk, butter and yogurt, are less likely to develop Metabolic Syndrome that often leads to diabetes, heart attacks, and premature death...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 11, 2015 | Nutrition
Two research reports, one reviewing 59 studies and the other reviewing 50 studies, found that neither calcium pills nor foods rich in calcium prevent bone fractures (British Medical Journal, September 29, 2015;351:h4183 ). An editorial in the same journal issue states...
