by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 12, 2020 | Nutrition
Seventy percent of North American adults will become diabetic or pre-diabetic because they eat too much fat, carbohydrates and protein. Of course, eating too much sugar and other refined carbohydrates increases diabetes risk, but so does eating too much meat (Am J of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 8, 2020 | Fitness
Researchers followed 3462 people, ages 35 to 75, for 5.3 years and found that those who nap once or twice a week had a much lower risk of heart disease, while those who napped more frequently than twice a week had the same risk for heart disease as those who did not...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 5, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Don Imus wore an old cowboy hat as the confrontational radio host of “Imus in the Morning,” who shouted tasteless, obscene, sexist, homophobic and even racist remarks about people in the news over more than 100 radio stations to become the “shock jock of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 5, 2020 | Fitness
Scientific American published a fascinating article that explains why you should exercise your brain while you exercise your body (January 2020;322(1):26-31). Almost 50 percent of North Americans over 85 and 13 percent of those over 65 suffer from some loss of brain...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 4, 2020 | Diabetes
Researchers at UCLA report that type II diabetes can be caused by repeatedly high levels of insulin from exposing the pancreas to too much fat (Diabetes, Nov 18, 2019). Similar results were also reported previously (Molecules, Jun 19, 2018;23(6):E1483; Diabetes, Aug...