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LATEST ARTICLES ( 49 )

• 10 Good Reasons Not To Exercise?

  

  Exercise may actually be bad for you! A professor says he stumbled upon this "potentially explosive" insight. The New York Times has been quick to peddle it. An... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Why You Should Arm Your Bullshit Alarm Before Reading Diet News.

  

  In the fight over best diet for health and weight loss, it's protein lovers vs. vegetarian zealots. So far, a clear winner has not emerged. Only one loser:... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2012 DIET & WEIGHT, HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Can Chocolate Save You From Heart Attack?

  

  The media says yes. Science says maybe. In the end, you decide. Here are the facts: A truffle treatment for heart disease is imminent. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Can A Genetic Test Say Why You Are Fat?

  

  With the decoding of the human genome came the hope of getting a lever on the chronic diseases, which kill most of us today: heart disease, stroke, diabetes... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• No Time To Exercise? You Are Not Alone

  

  Lack of time is the most often cited excuse for not exercising. I deliberately chose the word "excuse" over its less judgmental alternative "obstacle". Simply... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• How to Live Longer And Exercise Shorter?

  

  Let's face it, if exercise was really that much fun, everybody would do it and we wouldn't be fat, diabetic or die of heart disease. So when your doctor tells... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• 3 Ways to Spot Their Lies About Healthy Recipes

  

  Briefly: If I had to name the one word, that is most often used to label something as what it is not, my vote would go to "healthy". Whether it's the issue of... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• The Death Of Good Cholesterol

  

  Briefly There were always two types of cholesterol, the good and the bad. Until now. A large new study tells us that good cholesterol might have been an... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Individualized Medicine, Ignorant Medics and an Invitation to Lose Weight.

  In my previous post I promised to talk about your individualized way to achieving optimal health. If that made you think about personalized medicine, you were... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Your Shortcut to Longevity.

  If you don't die from an accident, a serious infection or a cancer, you'll live as long as your arteries let you. And how long they let you is all in your hands. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Guess Who is Hiding the Magic Pill to Longevity?

  Imagine a medicine which protects you against cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes, depression and dementia. A medicine which works best when taken... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• How to Survive the Health Care System

  

  You have heard about good and bad cholesterol. You have heard that increasing the former and reducing the latter will cut your risk of heart disease. You will... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Why Your Heart Attack May Just Be Collateral Damage in Big Pharma's Turf Wars.

  When a pharmaceutical company tells you that its drug is safer than it really is, it probably plays with your health. And possibly with your life. That's not a... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• The One Way to Make You Slim, Fit and Healthy?

  That your fattening lifestyle drives health insurance costs up is nothing but a fat lie. That much I have told you in the previous post. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Who Says Being Fat is Bad?

  Would you have guessed that, one fine day, health insurers will regret the demise of big tobacco and its contribution to health care costs? Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Pass Me the Salt. And Shut up About Stroke Risk.

  They say, statistics lie. That's a bad rep for a science, which has no other aspiration than that of making sense from data, of discovering an association... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• It's Not Your Genes, Stupid.

  Imagine traveling back in time and meeting your caveman ancestor of 10,000 years ago. Imagine telling him about what life is like today: that, with the tap of... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Screw Your Health?!

  So, what's your excuse for not exercising enough, for smoking, for not watching your diet, for getting fatter every year, and therefore having high blood... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• To Hell with Exercise

  Who says that exercise is medicine? For one, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) of which I'm a professional member. Then, how can I say it isn't? Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE

• Am I Shittin' You? Learn to Be a Skeptic!

  

  Learn to be a skeptic! Why you cannot believe what you read about medical studies. In my last blog post I promised to tell you why you shouldn't trust any... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2012 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, MEDICINE