Published August 13, 2014

Nutrient turned into cholesterol drug is just as dangerous as other drugs

If your doctor still has you worked up about the allegation that cholesterol kills, I hope the following study actually conducted by the National Institutes of Health will convince you chemically treating cholesterol is worthless.

 

 

 

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Published August 8, 2014

Why people living at high altitude have better blood flow

Have you ever wondered how villagers living high in the mountains at dizzying heights can do it? After all, if oxygen is the stuff of life, and some live at oxygen levels that would make a flatlander hypoxic, how do they do it?

 

 

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Published August 7, 2014

Do all breads make you gain weight?

Everybody likes bread — the "staff of life." But not all breads are created equal. Terry Graham is a professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. According to Professor Graham, "There's an urban myth that if you want to lose weight, you shouldn't eat bread." So the professor set out to find out the truth about bread. And what he discovered is a bit surprising.

 

 

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