Published October 6, 2010

4 powerful new uses for green tea

If you’re not drinking tea every day, I just found two new studies that give even more reasons to make it a priority. I’ve told you in the past how tea can help prevent colon cancer, reduce inflammation, improve your memory, and even lower your cholesterol. But these two studies show tea’s protection goes a lot further.

In the first study, researchers found that drinking green or black tea every day may prevent ischemic stroke. Three or more cups per day reduced the risk by 21% in a meta analysis. While this type of study is not as good as a randomized, prospective clinical study, it supports everything else we know about the flavonoids in tea.

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Published October 1, 2010

Miracle food raises HDL, lowers LDL and
triglycerides better than drugs

On Wednesday, I showed you how broccoli sprouts can fight H. pylori, stomach ulcers, and stomach inflammation better than drugs. Now there’s another food that works better than drugs for raising HDL cholesterol.

As you may know, HDL cholesterol is the good cholesterol. If your HDL cholesterol is high, then you can handle higher cholesterol levels without damage to your heart. So increasing HDL is very important.

However, if you ask your conventional doctor, he’ll tell you that it’s hard to increase HDL cholesterol. So they often insist on powerful drugs to artificially raise HDL. However, a new study says you can raise HDL with a simple fruit.

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Published September 30, 2010

Does flaxseed lower your cholesterol and triglycerides better than fish oil?

As you may know, I’m a huge fan of ground flaxseed. I showed you last week how eating ground flaxseed is far better than eating flax oil or whole flaxseed. The benefits of flaxseed are so strong, some are wondering whether you should take flaxseed instead of fish oil. A new study gives a very clear answer on whether this is a good idea or not.

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