by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 28, 2018 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Results from the huge EPIC study (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) confirm that eating a lot of junk food increases risk for many cancers. Researchers in Paris followed 471,495 adults in 10 European countries for an average of 15.3 years,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 28, 2018 | Nutrition
Several recent papers show that diets that restrict all carbohydrate-containing foods can cause diseases and shorten your life. People who eat the most vegetables, fruits, beans and whole grains, which are full of carbohydrates, have the lowest rates of heart attacks...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 23, 2018 | Fitness
The same training principles that improve athletic performance in competitive athletes also help to prevent heart attacks and prolong lives: • The SUN Study on 18,737 middle-aged people showed that those who exercise intensely have half the rate of heart attacks as...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 23, 2018 | Nutrition
A study in mice shows that a ketogenic diet, where you get most of your calories from fat, may cause diabetes (Journal of Physiology, August 8, 2018). A keto diet requires you to severely restrict carbohydrates and proteins, so your body uses fat as its main source of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 23, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
He was arguably the greatest baseball batter ever. He played 19 years for the Boston Red Sox and every one of those 19 years, he was an American League All-Star. In 1941, he had a batting average of 406, which remains the highest batting average in the...
