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 | Jan 13, 2024 | Heart Health
Having blood triglyceride levels above 150 mg/dL puts you at increased risk for a heart attack, stroke, or heart valve disease, even if your blood cholesterol levels are normal. Triglyceride levels can be measured with routine blood tests. Safe triglyceride level are...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 21, 2023 | Nutrition
Many scientific studies show that eating sugar-rich whole fruit is healthful, even for people who are diabetic (Annals of Int Med, June 16, 2020;172(12):826-827). However, I tried eating an extremely large amount of fruit (15-20 clementines or 10 regular oranges per...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 23, 2023 | Nutrition
An analysis of 18 studies from Denmark found that vegetable, but not potato, intake is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (Diabetes Care, 2023;46(2):286–296). Studies of 54,793 people, aged 50 to 64, found that 7,695 (14 percent) were diabetic. Those who...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 29, 2022 | Nutrition
Researchers followed more than 934,000 cancer-free people for 34 years, during which more than 135,000 died from cancer. Those who drank more than two sugar-sweetened beverages per day were at increased risk for death from 20 different cancers (Cancer, Epidemiology,...
