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Lower Carb Diet: Does Quality Count?
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoThe Framingham Study began in 1948 and focused on monitoring nutrition and cardiovascular disease among other conditions. The purpose was to monitor the dietary and health habits as well as the health outcomes of a large group of people over time. Much of what we know about diet and cardiovascular disease comes from the longitudinal […]
Walking for Fitness
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoThe message from Tuesday’s Memo was that walking over 4,000 steps per day can bring health benefits from several diseases and conditions, and the benefits increase the more steps you take—up to about 12,000 steps, the highest that were recorded in the studies. What I didn’t say was that those were not all workout steps. […]
Research Update on Walking
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoQuestioning prevailing thought and dogma are always a good idea in my opinion. Last week’s look at eggs put the issue of dietary cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol in perspective. This week we’re going to look at the concept of 10,000 steps per day as the number required to get health benefits. This first came up in […]
Eggs: A Practical Solution
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoBased on Tuesday’s Memo, do we have a “hard-boiled” answer to the question of whether the dietary cholesterol in egg yolks positively impacts LDL-cholesterol levels? Or total cholesterol levels? We can’t “eggsactly” get a complete answer from this study, and here’s why. (Okay, no more puns or “yolking” around.) Study Issues These two issues alone […]
To Egg or Not to Egg?
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoThat’s today’s question. This Memo was driven by another provocative headline from a university press release: “Groundbreaking study finds eggs don’t harm heart health” published in SciTech Daily. I think most informed healthcare professionals have known for a while that there’s little to no relationship between cardiovascular disease and dietary cholesterol from eggs and other […]
Finding New Ways
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoThanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday by replying to Paula’s Memo or on social media. I appreciate the sentiments and the kind words; it’s great to have you along for the ride as we all try to be healthier. After a long, drawn-out process, my email has been whitelisted again by the […]
Happy Birthday, Dr. Chet!
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoHi, Gang—Paula here. Today is Chet’s birthday, and he’s letting me take over; that photo above is a few years old, but it’s one of my faves. I’ve done a lot of thinking about what to get him for his birthday, and I decided the best gift would be something you can help me give […]
Artificial Intelligence? Focus on Artificial
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoRecently, I researched a topic on PubMed, the government database of published scientific research. There was a posting on the home page that the National Center for Biotechnological Information would be down for usual maintenance. That’s something we’ve come to expect from just about any database-based website. But it made me pause for a few […]
Lift Five Kilos to Live Better
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoAnybody up for knocking out 25 pushups? How about 10? How about just one? Let’s make it more practical: pick up your largest cast iron frypan or Dutch oven. Or pick up a 10-pound sack of flour or sugar and lift it over your head. Can you do it? Who cares? Maybe you should, and […]
Walking and Lower Back Pain
/in Memos/by Chet ZelaskoAt some point, most of us experience lower back pain. Many people use walking as their mode of exercise—could walking contribute to the development of lower back pain? A recent study examined the rate of lower back pain and walking. Researchers tracked over 11,000 participants in the Norwegian HUNT study. To qualify, the subjects could […]