Published September 23, 2009

Sweeten your heart-healthy diet —
and lower your cholesterol even more

As you may know, I talk a lot about diet as the best fix for most health problems, especially heart disease. However, one of the complaints I get from people is that they’re tired of their “bland” diet. Well, how would you like to sweeten your heart-healthy diet and lower your cholesterol at the same time?

You really can do it. All you have to do is add more berries to your diet — strawberries in particular.

Researchers conducted a one-month study on 28 subjects with high lipids. For an average of two-and-a-half years, all of the participants ate a “low cholesterol diet” (soy, viscous fiber, plant sterols, and nuts). Then, for one month, the researchers had them eat either strawberries (one pound per day) or oat bran bread.

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Published September 18, 2009

Sweeten your heart-healthy diet — and lower your cholesterol even more

As you may know, I talk a lot about diet as the best fix for most health problems, especially heart disease. However, one of the complaints I get from people is that they’re tired of their “bland” diet. Well, how would you like to sweeten your heart-healthy diet and lower your cholesterol at the same time?

Sweeten your heart-healthy diet — and lower your cholesterol even more

As you may know, I talk a lot about diet as the best fix for most health problems, especially heart disease. However, one of the complaints I get from people is that they’re tired of their “bland” diet. Well, how would you like to sweeten your heart-healthy diet and lower your cholesterol at the same time?

You really can do it. All you have to do is add more berries to your diet — strawberries in particular.

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Published September 17, 2009

Swine flu vaccine — it may be deadly

I guess I’ve been around too long. I remember the swine flu “epidemic” of 1976. I had been practicing medicine for three years then. According to some of the infectious disease experts of the time, the swine virus was so dangerous that they were able to convince the United States Congress to pay for vaccines for every citizen to prevent the “deadly” disease. About 25% of all Americans bought the idea. The results?

Twenty five people died because of the vaccine. One person died because of the virus.

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