Posts Tagged ‘health’

The groundbreaking cholesterol-lowering program . . . now even more effective! Robert Kowalski’s personal story is legendary. By the age of forty-one, he had suffered a heart attack and had undergone two coronary bypass surgeries. A traditional dietary approach to lowering his cholesterol failed dismally, and faced with the unpleasant alternative of a lifetime on…

Fear of carbs has taken over the diet industry for the past few decades–the mere mention of a starch-heavy food is enough to trigger an avalanche of shame and longing. Here, diet doctor and board-certified internist John A. McDougall, MD, and his kitchen-savvy wife, Mary, show that a starch-rich diet can actually help you lose…

Although you haven’t had leeches applied to your arms and legs to bleed you, you have had to endure something only a little bit better. But those days are over. Just as smart phones have transformed communication, the information and tools of undoctored, self-directed health will change the way you think about yourself, how you…

A comprehensive resource for readers with diabetes or pre-diabetes focuses on carb counting in a real-world context that provides explanations and advice on common foods and eating habits, in a guide that includes coverage of how to adjust carb counts for fiber and sugar substitutes, a discussion of the glycemic index, and self-efficacy tests. Original.

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Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as Andr� Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard’s most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada’s right-to-die law, the true risks of the Zika…

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