Dear Reader, In the Middle Ages, “old age” came much quicker. In fact, the average life expectancy was only about 31 years of age! But there was one group of men who routinely defied the odds and [...]
Tag: Mediterranean Diet
6 surprising ways to reduce autoimmune disease risk
Stress is a killer…quite literally. In fact, a brand-new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found conclusive evidence linking stress with 41 autoimmune [...]
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, [...]
Olive oil improves heart disease markers in just hours
Researchers consistently link the Mediterranean diet with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. And olive oil, which is a major component of the diet, receives much of the credit. In fact, [...]
Improve blood sugar control with tree nuts
The science on nuts keeps getting better and better. Yesterday, I told you about men and women who reversed atherosclerosis by following the Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts. In just [...]
Eat more of these two high-fat foods to combat cardiovascular disease
For decades, doctors thought atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) was irreversible. And they believed it always led to heart disease. These assumptions were (and still are) used to justify [...]