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Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift
Concern has arisen that this weight focus is not only ineffective at producing thinner, healthier bodies, but may also have unintended consequences, contributing to food and body preoccupation, repeated cycles of weight loss and regain, distraction from other personal health goals and wider health determinants, reduced self-esteem, eating disorders, other health decrement, and weight stigmatization and discrimination.
Cancer As a Metabolic Disease
Emerging evidence indicates that impaired cellular energy metabolism is the defining characteristic of nearly all cancers regardless of cellular or tissue origin.
Vitamin B3 Reduces Alzheimer's Symptoms, Lesions
An over-the-counter vitamin in high doses prevented memory loss in
mice with Alzheimer's disease.
Low Potassium Linked to High Blood Pressure
As a risk factor for high blood pressure, low levels of potassium in
the diet may be as important as high levels of sodium—especially among
African Americans.
Preventing Cancer: Learn How to Lower Your Risks
Do you know people who’ve smoked their whole lives and thrived well
into old age without any sign of lung cancer? Or someone who never
seemed to go near fruits and veggies but lived a long, full life? When
you think of them, you might decide that cancer will come when it comes
and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s where you’d be wrong.
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