Published April 8, 2015

Why some people have big muscles and others don't

I've told you in the past that I'm far more concerned about your muscle mass than I am about your overall weight. People with a solid muscle mass tend to stay healthy longer and have fewer health problems than those who don't have as much muscle. But some of us, including me, have trouble maintaining muscle mass.

 

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Published April 6, 2015

How long does it take a bad diet to cause problems?

Let's say you radically changed your diet to one that was deficient in various vitamins or minerals. How long do you think it would take before your body started showing the signs of a nutritional deficiency? One month? One year? Longer? It may surprise you to learn that poor diets often create damage to your body long before the final signs show up. Here is a case of a woman whose poor diet did not start to damage her eyes until three or four years later.

 

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Published April 3, 2015

Why you might need more than 5,000 IU of vitamin D

Why is it that so many people need to take a vitamin D supplement in order to have optimal levels? We're supposed to be able to make vitamin D after we go into the sunlight. But I have reported to you in the past that for most people, sunlight is just not enough. And here's another question. Why do some of us need to take such high vitamin D doses in order to have optimal levels? I need to take 15,000 units a da

 

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