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Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Will The Polypill Prevent Your Heart Attack?

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Giving the polypill to everybody above the age of 55 kills two birds with one stone: cardiovascular risk and preventive medicine. That'...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Why Risk Screening For Heart Disease Is As Good As Crystal Ball Gazing

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If weather forecasts were as reliable as cardiovascular risk prediction tools, meteorologists would miss two thirds of all hurricanes, e...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Are You A Unique Medical Case?

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Research says yes, public health doesn't listen, and you suffer the consequences: too little benefits from generic interventions. And ...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Individualized Medicine, Ignorant Medics And An Invitation To Lose Weight.

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In my previous post I promised to talk about your individualized way to achieving optimal health. If that made you think about p...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

The one way to make you slim, fit and healthy?

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That your fattening lifestyle drives health insurance costs up is nothing but a fat lie. That much I have told you in the previo...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

Who says being fat is bad?

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Would you have guessed that, one fine day, health insurers will regret the demise of big tobacco and its contribution to health ...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Guess who is hiding the magic pill to longevity?

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Imagine a medicine which protects you against cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes, depression and dementia. A medicine whi...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

To hell with exercise

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Who says that exercise is medicine? For one, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) of which I'm a professional memb...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Screw Your Health?!

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So, what's your excuse for not exercising enough, for smoking, for not watching your diet, for getting fatter every year, and ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Am I shittin' you? Learn to be a skeptic!

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Learn to be a skeptic! Why you cannot believe what you read about medical studies. In my last blog post I promised to tell yo...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Do vitamin supplements make you healthier?

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The (non-)sense of vitamin supplementation? Almost one in two American adults is a regular user of vitamin and miner...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

When risk scores for heart attack really suck!

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When risk scores really suck. If you are a man aged 55 or younger, or a woman aged 65 or younger and have had your risk for hea...
Friday, April 6, 2012

How to get to chronic health. With three steps into the age of chronic health and longevity.

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Into the age of chronic health. My yesterday's post was all about what's holding us back from achieving chron...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

The three hidden barriers to chronic health, weight loss and weight maintenance.

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Into The Age of Chronic Health The most amazing thing about modern health care systems is that they let most of us di...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The daily super stimulus to prevent diabetes, or maybe not?

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The daily super stimulus to prevent diabetes , or maybe not? Today a newly released case report in the British Medical Journal ...