Today is Memorial Day. And we should take a moment to commemorate all who have fallen in service of our country. Of course, Memorial Day originally commemorated those who died on both sides of [...]
Category: Daily Dispatch
The “short” answer about your heart disease risk
A new study published last month in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) found short men and women run a greater risk of developing heart disease. This interesting study caught [...]
Put eggs back on your plate
It amazes me how often I hear this question: “So–are eggs are okay to eat now?” The answer is YES. It’s always been yes. Eggs and many other foods high in cholesterol–such as dairy, [...]
“New” findings about stress and high blood pressure hid in plain sight for 40 years
Many heart experts claim 90 percent of high blood pressure cases are “essential,” meaning they’re somehow inherent, inborn, and unavoidable. But that’s absurd. Stress is the No.1 hidden cause of [...]
The other important mineral you need in your diet
Of all the minerals required by the human body, calcium garners the most attention. But magnesium is an equally important micronutrient. Studies show it helps with osteoporosis, pain, depression, [...]
Four simple activities to keep your brain young
As I often remind you, growing older has its perks. In fact, according to a new study, many key cognitive abilities don’t reach their peak until middle age or even later. For this study, [...]
Surprising silver-lining to your gout attacks
A surprising new study linked the painful inflammatory condition gout with a dramatically reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Now–I would never wish gout on a friend or [...]
Keep the olive oil flowing
Fortunately, throughout the government’s “smear” campaign against butter in the 1960s and 1970s, many Americans kept their faith in olive oil. In fact, in many Italian-American families I know, [...]
Chemotherapy hasn’t changed much since the 1960s
The remedy is worse than the disease. Scholars credit the 17th-century English philosopher and “Renaissance Man” Sir Francis Bacon with this keen observation. To the modern reader, Bacon’s words [...]
How to navigate the murky waters of healthy fish consumption
The 2015 government Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee–which recently admitted the government’s decades-long advice to cuts fats and cholesterol was complete bunk–also made a [...]