Should we try to eliminate saturated fat from our diets?
There has been a huge push to reduce the amount of saturated fat in our diets. The mantra “saturated fats – bad, unsaturated fats – good” is everywhere.
However, is consuming some saturated fat bad for us? Probably not. Could it even [...]
Category Archives: Opinion
Can you consume too little saturated fat?
November 4, 2009 – 3:06 pm
How Old Is Old?
June 30, 2009 – 10:06 pm
This is from the New York Times. Made me think, plus I am tiling my kitchen and way behind schedule so it is quoted verbatim.
How old do you feel? And how old will you be when you reach old age?
The public’s views on age and aging are explored in a new national survey on [...]
Dirty Marketing, Prevention Magazine, Wrinkle Creams
April 24, 2009 – 11:35 am
Do you know what forced continuation is? It is a marketing ploy that is used to catch the unwary and extract their money. It is easy to fall prey to this type of “dirty” marketing.
It happened to me, and I know how it works and usually read the small print. In doing [...]
Staying slim will reduce global warming
April 20, 2009 – 9:30 pm
What are the advantages of staying slim? Lower risk of heart disease? Diabetes? How about reducing global warming?
A new research paper lays out the arguments for why staying slim will reduce global warming. They point out the following;
Eating less means less food production is required. This means less fertilizer, less [...]
Health And Aging Quizzes Can Invade Your Privacy
April 1, 2009 – 11:57 am
Did you know that some online health/fitness/aging quizzes may be invading your privacy? Further that for some of the questions may be geared to getting information for sponsors, rather than being relevant to the quiz.
How much weight (pun intended) do you put in these tests? Have you ever thought about why some sites may [...]
Should You Consume Less Fish And Fish Oil?
March 25, 2009 – 4:27 pm
Many nutritional guidelines suggest eating fatty fish several times a week or taking fish oil capsules. Do we really need to eat this much fish, and if so, how long before the world is fished out? This is discussed in an article in an upcoming article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal [...]
Fashion Magazines And False Perfection
March 12, 2009 – 4:24 pm
How is your body image? How many people are really even remotely comfortable with their bodies? I was shocked yesterday to find out how much photographs in fashion magazines are manipulated. We are chasing such a false perfection.
The video I saw on changes the faces and bodies of models in fashion [...]
Get A Female Cardiologist?
January 26, 2009 – 2:00 pm
A new study that looked at heart failure found that your gender affects your treatment. Besides the gender of the patient, the gender of the treating physician also affected treatment. The latter finding is quite surprising, at least to me.
It is probably no big surprise to anyone, that generally, men get more [...]
How Helpful Is Exercise?
September 29, 2008 – 2:35 pm
Sometimes it sounds that if you exercise enough that you won’t get any diseases and will be skinny. How helpful is exercise really?
There was an interesting
Does Lipitor (Atorvastatin) Help Women?
September 19, 2008 – 12:25 pm
This was a surprise. It is being suggested that Lipitor may not be of benefit to women. Lipitor (atorvastatin) has been, and may still be, the best selling drug in the world.
Lipitor is one of a class of drugs called statins. These drugs are cholesterol lowering drugs. The inhibition of a [...]