A painful and threatening intestinal condition Eat more fiber each day to keep the doctor away Decades ago, I lived downstairs from an older couple. Both of them suffered from a painful intestinal condition called diverticulitis. In the evening, I often heard my friends moaning from the pain in their bellies. Believe me, you don’t…
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Monitor Your Cardiovascular Disease Risk
The ratio of total cholesterol to HDL-cholesterol is a good marker if you're low-risk The ratio of apoB to apoA-1 may be better if you're high-risk Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) kill more Americans than any other cause. Thus, it behooves us, especially those of us who are at higher risk for CVD, to monitor our risk…
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How to Read a Food Label
Read the fine print Words on a package may be misleading 1) Ingredients must be listed in decreasing order of abundance. For example, if you’re buying a loaf of whole wheat bread, the first ingredient should be “whole wheat flour” or some other whole grain flour. Remember that “wheat flour” and “organic unbleached wheat flour”…
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Are Americans Eating Better?
Yes, but … We have a long, long way to go Two recent studies suggest that we Americans eat better today than we did 20 years ago. Researchers at Harvard used data from a nationally representative sample of 43,996 American adult participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 to 2016. The…
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