Diet Articles

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Is Obesity a Social Disease?

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that if a friend is overweight your chance of gaining weight goes up 57%, if it’s a sibling your chance goes up 40%, if it’s a spouse your chance goes up 37%. The researchers concluded that obesity appears to spread through social ties. What now? Never hang out with someone who is overweight?

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Do You Eat to Live or Eat to Die?

Science is now very clear that eating too much food causes leptin resistance and insulin resistance in the subconscious brain, especially as one ages. Unfortunately, these malfunctioning brain signals also cause a person to eat more than is needed in order to feel full, setting up a vicious catch 22 that sends a person on the path to serious health problems.

Read More: diet, health problems, insulin, Leptin Diet, overeating

Leptin-Weight Problems and Heart Attack: Bad Combination

Researchers measured the leptin levels in heart attack patients and found that those with the highest levels of leptin were the most non-responsive to therapies designed to thin the blood...

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Veggies Cut Diabetes Risk 24%

Eating 1 cup of veggies per day as part of a healthy diet is now proven to reduce the risk of diabetes by 24%. Vegetables contain fiber as well as numerous plant nutrients that are protective to health and help maintain a healthy digestive tract. Australian researchers tracked 2000 people for 10 years and found that vegetables, legumes in particular (beans, lentils, chickpeas), were superior to fruit or whole grains in terms of reducing diabetes risk.

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Vytorin Fraud Places all Statin Therapy in Question

Excessively lowering cholesterol has been the mantra of Big Pharma gone wild. Congressional investigation into a fraudulent cover-up of Vytorin study results led Merck and Schering-Plough to reveal what everyone had been suspecting, the main ingredient in their 5-billion-a-year scam failed miserably to do anything useful.

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More Science Supporting the Leptin Diet

Quoting the new press release covering the study, “Eat less, exercise more. Now there is new evidence to support adding another “must” to the weight-loss mantra: eat at the right time of day.” How flattering, I’ve been saying those exact words since publishing Mastering Leptin in 2002.

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