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Author Blog PostsHealthy Versions of Thanksgiving Favorites
You can have your Thanksgiving feast without spiking your blood sugar and sparking inflammation by substituting these easy, semi-traditional and above all healthy variations on old standards. All recipes tested and measured for glycemic index, calories, etc. <br>
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Carb-Friendly -- and Healthy! -- Thanksgiving Menu and Recipes
I’ve created a special holiday recipe collection called Jim Healthy’s Good Goodies – and I’d love to send you a complimentary copy.
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Is the Low-Fat Fad Causing the Alzheimer's Disease Epidemic?
Mounting evidence suggests the Alzheimer’s epidemic is due to low cholesterol in the brain caused by the widespread use of statin drugs and the popularity of low-fat diets.
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Can Eating Sugar and Starch Give You Alzheimer's Disease?
Diabetes and Alzheimer’s have origins in the same problem: the overconsumption of sugar, sweets, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), refined carbohydrates, starches and processed foods.
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Six Natural Remedies for Seasonal Allergies
Fortunately, Mother Nature provides us with a number of natural substances that are pretty effective at countering the body’s “allergic response.”
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Should You Have Surgery to Prevent Diabetes?
What these studies fail to mention is that post-surgical patients must follow a strict low-carb diet. That means no sugar, sodas, bread, chips, cookies, refined-grains products, white potatoes, or pasta.
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10 Healthy Reasons to Eat Eggs
In a stroke of marketing “genius,” Big Pharma managed to convince us all that high cholesterol is a kind of disease for which we need drug therapy and a strict, low-cholesterol diet. Doctors have swallowed the cholesterol theory hook, line, and sinker.
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Vitamins Making a Comeback
New studies confirm what early studies had claimed: extra vitamins are good for you!
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Belly Fat Linked to Alzheimer's Disease
Please don't buy into the common belief that its "natural" for brain function to decline with age. Brain decline is less about aging and more about poor health habits.
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Who Knew? Black Pepper Fights Obesity by Working on Your DNA
Your diet influences your digestion profoundly, all the way down to your DNA.
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Low-Fat, Low-Carb, Low-Glycemic Diets: Studies Are Leaning One Way
the low-GI diet was superior in four important categories: • It lowered blood sugar levels • It reduced oxidative stress and inflammation • It succeeded in suppressing hunger • It enhanced “well-being, mental and physical performance”
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Why Are Doctors so Slow to Change (And One Who Isn't)
Is your social network pressuring you towards health -- or towards illness?
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Belly Fat Linked to Alzheimer's
Brain scans of overweight people are shockingly similar to the those of Alzheimer’s patients … pro football players & boxers … soldiers exposed to bomb blasts … alcoholics … people with diabetes … and those eating the “SAD” diet (Standard American Diet).
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Cure Your Diabetes, Go to Jail
Type 2 diabetes: “The first corporate-sponsored disease.” How can we stop it? I can think of three ways.
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The Medical Establishment and HBO Are Misplacing the Blame for Nation's Obesity Crisis -- Again
New HBO documentary blames the wrong things for nation's obesity.
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What Really Killed Dick Clark
I never knew that Dick Clark had Type diabetes for almost 20 years. He certainly didn't fit our usual picture of diabetes because he was so slim. But this is a popular misconception. Being fat doesn’t cause diabetes.
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Red Meat: Even Harvard Scientists Can Miss the Obvious
While the study may have shown an association between meat consumption and higher mortality, it fails to demonstrate causality. There’s a big difference between finding a bunch of fire-fighters at a blazing house and assuming they started the fire.
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How to Conquer Sugar Addiction -- and Why You'll Want To
Sugar and refined carbs are every bit as addictive and toxic as tobacco. And, as consumers, we must treat them as such.
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Doctor Helps Husband with Alzheimer's Recover...With This Superfood
Once the scourge of mainstream nutritionists and cardiologists (because of its saturated fat content), coconut oil is proving itself to be a healing food that belongs in everyone’s kitchen.