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Nuts!
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoHere’s a question for you: can you eat more fat, but less protein and carbohydrates, and still lower your bad cholesterol levels? You may be thinking that this has to be about the carnivore diet, but you would be wrong. It’s about nuts, specifically, pecans. Researchers recruited overweight subjects with cholesterol levels that were higher […]
Knowledge Isn’t Enough
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoIn the study on colon cancer and exercise, there was one more difference: those who were in the structured exercise study had fewer deaths over the follow-up period than those who were given the same materials on exercise and nutrition but no supervision or regular contact with experts. The difference between the two groups was […]
Exercise and Colon Cancer
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoMost research points to exercise being beneficial to prevent most types of cancer, including colon cancer. Does exercise help reduce the mortality of people who have had severe cases of colon cancer after surgery and chemotherapy? That was the question researchers in Canada asked, and they conducted the Colon Health and Lifelong Exercise Change (CHALLENGE) […]
Caffeine and Your Health
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoThe health reports on coffee and caffeine seem to change on a regular basis. First caffeine is good, then it’s bad. To bring you up to date, I’m providing the latest information based on a recent scientific statement on caffeine and cardiovascular disease by the American Heart Association. Caffeine and Heart Disease Overall, caffeine — […]
Caffeine’s Effects
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoI love coffee. I had my first coffee when still using a bottle; my mother would put coffee with milk and sugar in it, and that’s what I drank instead of water. I don’t know why, especially after having been around an infant for the first time — the last thing baby Riley needed was […]
Manteniendo Tu Melón
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoTuesday, we talked about Maintaining Your Melon — or manteniendo tu melón in Spanish. The U.S. POINTER study demonstrated that cognitive decline could be reduced using two different approaches in over 2,000 subjects with an average age of 68. Based on the U.S. POINTER design, the Latin American Initiative for Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Cognitive […]
Maintaining Your Melon
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoChanging one’s lifestyle is difficult to do, and I think it’s especially challenging if the benefits could be years in the future — specifically doing those things that need to be done now to reduce the decline in cognition that happens as we get older. Two recently published studies have demonstrated how that’s possible. The […]
Is Xylitol Dangerous?
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoOver the past few years, research papers have suggested that sugar alcohols, specifically erythritol, may increase blood clotting and potentially lead to a major adverse coronary event or MACE for short. It gave me pause — to the extent that I stopped using sugar-free gum when I work out. The same research group recently presented […]
The Memo: AI-Free Zone
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoI’m still bugged about the topic I wrote about last week, polyphenols in fruit. It’s not that I don’t think it was an interesting topic. It was. Why did it show up in press release now when it was published in 2023? My sense is that AI was involved, based on what I’ve read and […]
Fruit: Variety is the Key
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoI didn’t want to hold you in suspense, so I already revealed that you can put the banana in your smoothie if you like. I’ll tell you why, but first a little more about the study. The biggest issue, which the researchers acknowledge, is the limited number of subjects. Eight subjects just aren’t enough, nor […]