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Men in Owsley County are the fattest in the United States, and women in Perry County have the lowest life expectancy, 72, according to an NB...

Labels: county health, health rankings, hypertension, obesity, physical activity

Posted by Admin | 1:07 PM

Take no solace from  The Economist , which proclaims in its yearly analysis-and-prognostication issue that this is the year world leaders wi...

Labels: diabetes, health journalism, hypertension, nutrition, obesity, taxes

Posted by Admin | 6:41 PM

The death rate from heart disease is nearly twice as high in Perry County (Wikipedia map) as in Kentucky as a whole, so there's no bett...

Labels: Appalachia, heart disease, hypertension, nutrition, obesity, restaurants

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

Recently, Chris Kresser published a series on dietary salt (sodium chloride) and health ( 1 ).  One of the issues he covered is the effect ...

Labels: diet, hypertension

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

Buckle your seat belts, ladies and gentlemen-- we're going on a long ride through the scientific literature on sugar and body fatness.  ...

Labels: diet, Food reward, Hadza, hyperphagia, hypertension, Kitava, liver, metabolic syndrome, overweight, San

Posted by Admin | 5:00 AM

John was overweight, out of shape, and experiencing fatigue. What did he do? He removed foods rich in refined carbohydrates and sugars from ...

Labels: HCE, health management software, hypertension, research, sodium, statistics, white coat hypertension

Posted by Admin | 9:00 AM

What are Polyphenols? Polyphenols are a diverse class of molecules containing multiple phenol rings. They are synthesized in large amounts ...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, diet, hypertension

Posted by Admin | 5:00 PM

A Fatal Case of Nutritionism The concept of 'nutritionism' was developed by Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis and popularized by the food writer Mi...

Labels: cancer, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet, disease, fat-soluble vitamins, fats, hypertension

Posted by Admin | 7:00 PM

Cancer Link and Food Sources Nitrate (NO3) is a molecule that has received a lot of bad press over the years. It is thought to promote dige...

Labels: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diet, disease, hypertension

Posted by Admin | 8:00 PM

In 1942, Dr. H. W. Bennetts dissected 21 cattle known to have died of "falling disease". This was the name given to the sudden, ...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, diet, disease, hypertension, minerals

Posted by Admin | 9:48 PM

Let's get right to the meat of this study. It's relevant to the hypothesis that saturated fat is a cause of cardiovascular disease....

Labels: cardiovascular disease, diet, disease, fats, hypertension, native diet, Tokelau

Posted by Admin | 1:00 PM

Thanks to commenter Brock for pointing me to this very interesting paper , "Effects of fish oil on hypertension, plasma lipids, and tu...

Labels: diet, disease, fats, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, overweight

Posted by Admin | 5:03 PM

I've been digging deeper into the health of the Masai lately. A commenter on Chris's blog pointed me to a 1972 paper showing that...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, fats, genetics, hypertension, low-carb, Masai, native diet