by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 3, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
In the 1950s, Ancel Keys had a theory that dietary saturated fats and cholesterol in animal products raise blood cholesterol and blood pressure to increase risk for heart attacks, a leading killer of North Americans. Also in the 1950s, John Yudkin was the leading...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 25, 2023 | Nutrition
About 65 percent of North American adults drink sugar-sweetened beverages every day (NCHS Data Brief, No 270, 2017). Two recent studies show how sugared drinks are associated with liver damage and kidney stones: • A study of nearly 100,000 postmenopausal women...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2023 | Nutrition
Chronic inflammation damages healthy tissues in the body to cause many diseases and chronic health problems. Foods that can cause a high rise in blood sugar are one source of inflammation (” pro-inflammatory foods “). Pro-inflammatory foods turn on your...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 16, 2023 | Nutrition
The largest and most thorough review to date of research on sweetened drinks found that “fruit” drinks and other sweetened drinks are strongly associated with overweight and obesity (The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Jan 2023;117(1):160-174). The...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 23, 2023 | Heart Health
Researchers followed more than 110,000 people for nine years and found that the more free sugar a person takes in, the greater the risk for heart disease (BMC Medicine, Feb 14, 2023;21(34)). Each five percent increase in free sugar intake in a participant’s...
