by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 7, 2024 | Nutrition
When you are trying to lose excess weight, eat lots of leafy green vegetables. Researchers at Imperial College in London found that high-fiber foods from plants help people lose weight by causing the intestines to release an appetite-suppressing gut hormone called PYY...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 7, 2024 | Nutrition
Recent interest in vitamin K2 has led advocates of grass-fed beef to focus on its vitamin K2 content (J of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, 2006;25;54(2):463-7) . Sellers of cow’s meat either let their cows eat grass, or they can make the cows fatter and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 22, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
On July 12, 2023, ‘Doctor Ruth” died at age 96 of complications from a stroke that she first suffered a year before. She was a sex therapist and talk show host who at age 52 in 1980 started her radio show, “Sexually Speaking”, on WYNY-FM in New York City. The show...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 19, 2024 | Diabetes
Up to 70 percent of North American adults will develop diabetes or pre-diabetes, usually from insulin resistance caused by excess fat in the liver and muscles. Exercise helps to empty fat from the liver and muscles, so exercise helps both to prevent and to treat...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 19, 2024 | Nutrition
Doctors used 24-hour dietary recalls on 12,716 US adults, of whom 1290 suffered from constipation and 1067 had diarrhea. Those who ate the most ultra-processed foods had more than double the incidence of constipation as those who ate the least, and minimally-processed...
