Published August 19, 2010

Are you drinking “dead” water?

Sometimes I receive a letter from a subscriber that’s so important, it deserves a longer response than I can publish in the letters section of my newsletter. I recently received such a letter. In his letter, Jacques asks a very important question about water.

“It is my understanding that reverse osmosis or distilled water are ‘dead’ waters. At least that’s what many in the alternative medical field say. They think these waters pose ‘mineral leaching’ risks to the user. Do you agree? What's the best water to drink?"

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Published August 18, 2010

Is high fructose corn syrup really harmless?

You may have seen a lot of ads on TV lately about high fructose corn syrup. Its makers are doing all they can to make you believe their swill is harmless. But don’t listen to the commercials. High fructose corn syrup really is a poison.

“Poison?” you ask. Yes. Anything that damages your body’s normal physiology is a poison. And a new study proves that high fructose corn syrup does indeed damage your body’s physiology. Worse, it makes you fat.

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Published August 13, 2010

Four-food combination lowers cholesterol better than statins

You won’t hear this from Big Pharma. A study on 34 subjects with high cholesterol found that all you need to do is eat four particular foods to bring your numbers down. These four foods will give you the same LDL-lowering ability as a statin. But they go one step further than the drugs.

The study found that just one gram of plant sterols, 21.4 grams of soy protein, 9.8 grams of soluble fibers, and 14 grams of almonds per 800 calories did the job. The authors conceded that this intervention could be a viable alternative to statin treatment, particularly the important small dense LDL particles, which carry the LDL risk.

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