Would you eat a banana to lower your blood pressure?
High blood pressure, once thought to be influenced only by body weight, physical activity, and sodium, now has to watch out for potassium. A new study published last month in The Archives of Internal Medicine showed that sodium and potassium influence blood pressure, and therefore heart [...]
Welcome back to the third installment of Fresh Brewed Nutrition.
In case you are joining us for the first time, please check out Part 1 and Part II.
This time around, we will be looking at how coffee may be able to help prevent one of the most rapidly increasing chronic diseases in the world: Type II [...]
Earlier, (http://www.metabolism.com/2009/01/21/dear-dr-repas/) I wrote a letter to Dr. Thomas Repas, explaining why I disagreed with his publication which opposes combination treatment for hypothyroidism (using t3 in addition to the traditional t4 therapy). I never received a reply to my letter. Somehow I wasn’t surprised.
His latest article appearing in the February 10, 2009 edition [...]
In the first part of this series, we discussed coffee, the amazing beverage that might even be good for you.
See Part I Here
In Fresh Brewed Nutrition Part II, we will discuss what’s in coffee that makes it so potentially healthy.
More Than Meets The Eye
Most people see coffee as a combination of two things: coffee beans [...]
Talk is building about the excesses of the health insurance industry in the U.S. In the last year, while the rest of the economy is faltering, the brains behind the private health insurance industry in the U.S. have found a way to make their profits grow. Under the cover of the government’s newly instituted [...]
We make it, we smell it, we savor it, we drink it. We may even be addicted to it.
But is it doing a great deal of harm (or good)?
Coffee, one of the most popular beverages in the world, has been studied more than any other food.
What has been the result of millions of dollars of [...]
