Published May 27, 2015

The tasty way to keep your muscle and bone mass

Sometimes it's the simple things that make the biggest difference. For example, one of the most significant problems people face as they get older is losing muscle and bone. You know the score. This leads to weakness, loss of balance, and the increased likelihood of falling and breaking a bone. And these problems lead to less vigorous forms of activity, which serve only to make the former problems even worse. It's a vicious cycle that ends in weakness and frailty. No one wants that. So what's a really simple thing people can do that will help to break that cycle? A brand new article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition says eating the right breakfast can make a big difference.

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Published May 25, 2015

The supplement combination that can increase your risk of kidney stones by 17%

There is no doubt that taking a vitamin D3 supplement will prevent and even correct osteoporosis. That's been proven. However, this is not true for calcium. Taking a calcium supplement is useless in this regard. But despite the overwhelming evidence that calcium supplements do not help make your bones stronger, many doctors continue to recommend that their patients take a combination of calcium and vitamin D3. Now a new study is showing yet another reason why adding that calcium in is not a good idea.

 

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Published May 22, 2015

Using these conventional heart treatments could cause a heart attack

Wow! A blockbuster review article just came out last month about one of my least favorite — and Big Pharma's most loved drugs. I'm talking about statin drugs. These drugs came out about 20 years ago and I don't even want to guess how much money the drug companies have made. I'm thinking it comes real close to our national debt! The drug companies initially pushed statins as a preventive for atherosclerosis and heart disease. And now, they push them as the best thing ever for just about anything that ails you. But the authors of a new paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal are possibly blowing the lid off these dangerous drugs. According to their report, the indiscriminate use of these drugs might actually be responsible for more cardiovascular deaths than they supposedly prevent.

 

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