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MUFAs save lives! … SFAs not so much The European Prospective Investigating into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is one of the largest cohort studies in the world, with more than half a million (521,000) participants recruited across 10 European countries and followed for almost 15 years. In order to determine how substitution of dietary carbohydrates with different fats was related to all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) –specific mortality, Campmans-Kuijpers et al crunched the numbers on the entire EPIC sub-cohort of individuals with diabetes (n=6192). Substituting 5% of calories from carbohydrates with total and saturated fat led to an 8 and 29 % greater risk of all-cause mortality, respectively, but had no effect on CVD-specific mortality. On the other hand, substituting for polyunsaturated fats increased the risk of CVD-specific mortality by 37% and tended to increase all-cause mortality risk by 20%! Keep in mind that no differentiation between types of polyunsaturated fats...

One of the amazing gut-heathy benefits of bone broth is bestowed by the content of glycine. Bone broth contains around 20% glycine by weight. Awareness about getting more glycine in the diet is becoming a growing trend. Many people feel angst about using artificial sweeteners to replace sugar in their diet confused about their safety. Even the natural non-nutritive sweetener Stevia has been called into question recently. Glycine is also a very sweet amino acid. So much so that I used it in the sweetener blend in Thrīv Protein. Glycine is a great sweetener. It also counts as non-nutritive since it contains zero carbohydrates, sugars, fats or protein. And it’s an important amino acid to get more of in your diet. As a sweetener it’s very comparable to table sugar in taste, not s sweet, but similar. It also measures similar to toable sugar. 1 teaspoon in a cup of coffee...

To me a superfood is one that supplies you with every needed nutrient required to sustain life and not suffer a nutrient deficiency that shortens one’s life or causes debilitating physical condition. A superfood is one that as its name implies, of all foods, it is the highest in all the macronutrients and micronutrients required to actually thrive. A food source that if it were the ONLY food available to you, you would not suffer for, but instead rejoice in your good fortune for having such a food readily available. If you search the internet for superfoods you’ll find a virtual cornucopia of foods whose authors’ claim as superfoods. Most are fruits, veggies and grains. A few mention quietly dairy which in my humble opinion is in fact a superfood. But most stay clear of dairy because as of late dairy has become a “bad actor” in the “what’s healthy now”...

Despite a rapidly increasing world population and ever more hyper-connected, globalized world where people, technologies, and ideas move more fluidly than ever before, nearly 20 million children under five years of age are severely malnourished. Standard treatment of these individuals includes the use of calorie-dense ready-to-use therapeutic foods to ensure rapid weight gain. These foods have been so successful in their goal, that ready-to-use supplementary foods (RUSFs) have been developed for use in moderately malnourished children as well. For safety, shelf-life, and financial reasons, RUSFs are based upon a vitamin and mineral fortified peanut butter paste combined with soy protein. However, preliminary evidence in severely malnourished children suggests that a whey-based RUSF is more effective than one using soy. Yet evidence for the use of whey protein in moderately malnourished children is conflicting, with one of the largest barriers to inclusion being the additional cost. As such, Stobaugh et al conducted...

I lost my sister Valerie to PD several years ago. I still maintain that she was misdiagnosed and thus mistreated. I do acknowledge that she had a neuro-muscular disorder, but being treated with dopamine agonists burned out her brain. She did not have any tremor at the onset of the disease. Only symptoms she had was weakness in her right leg and depression. Yet she was diagnosed with PD and drugs to treat PD were prescribed. Over the next 4 years she developed tremor as a result of the drugs. Self-fulfilling diagnosis. This study links changes in the gut and links it to the vegus nerve. The vegus nerve is the main wiring harness of the human body. It connects and innervates every organ system. It also runs along the outer wall of the stomach. It effects digestion directly. It’s also susceptible to the contents of the gut that may leak...