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Breasts: two great reasons to avoid trans fats. Trans-fats may hike breast cancer risk (Abstract)- “Writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Veronique Chajes from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) reports that high blood levels of trans fatty acids, but not cis fatty acids, was associated with a [...]
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But we swear it’s not because they are ineffective! Mumps shots didn’t fully protect in 2006 - ‘Most of the college students who got the mumps in a big outbreak in 2006 had received the recommended two vaccine shots, according to a study that raises questions about whether a new vaccine or another [...]
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So I talk a good deal about the evolutionary diet and how it’s the proper diet for optimal health and longevity, but I’ve never really discussed how to adopt such a diet. It’s absurd to think that one following the typical Western diet of grains, sugar, grains, sugar, grains, no fat, grains, and processed [...]
I’m sure everyone saw this news release a few days ago titled Mediterranean diet cuts mortality rates, says study. Here comes the media darling again!
Eating plenty of fruit, vegetables and fish instead of meat, not to mention olive oil rather than saturated fats, is generally accepted to be good for you, but only a [...]
Here is a Men’s Health article that I came across on the Performance Menu forum. It’s a brief skim-of-the-surface regarding why saturated fat won’t kill you as common wisdom tells us.
This was my favorite paragraph:
Now here’s the saturated-fat connection: Dr. Krauss found that when people replace the carbohydrates in their diet with fat–saturated or [...]
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