Omega-3 Cuisine, my new cookbook, has a subtitle I don't want anyone to miss: Recipes for health and pleasure. It's become an ongoing goal of mine to bring these two together, because in my mind they are inseparable. I've always maintained that in...
It is important to recognize that even though cholesterol gets a lot of attention, it is not necessarily the most important (or even an especially significant) factor in preventing heart disease. Other factors, such as nutritional support and...
Every doctor envisages himself as engaged in an unholy war against the tyrannical, all-engulfing enemy, the Sauron of modern disease.
ALCOHOL: It's good for you (except in those cases where it's bad for
Just six months of homocysteine-lowering therapy with vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid can substantially reduce the risk of cardiac events, say Swiss researchers.
A modest amount of wine a day might well reduce heart problems, many research studies have concluded. Now Spanish researchers have also found that it can stop you catching a cold. Men and women who drank more than two glasses of wine every week had...
A new study has found that lycopene - found in tomatoes - protects against cancer only when the entire fruit is eaten rather than when taken as a dietary supplement. One study found that rats fed on tomato powder developed fewer cancers
The standard line tells you to stop smoking, reduce high blood pressure and lower your cholesterol levels if you want to avoid heart disease. While this may be good advice, half of all heart patients are non-smokers with normal levels of cholesterol...
Even alternative practitioners can emphasise the importance of nutrition and still overlook another vital aspect that also has a part to play in maintaining a healthy heart. Someone who follows all the right nutritional guidelines can still suffer...
The risk of heart disease steadily decreases as the intensity of exercise increases.
Alan Roettinger
Dr Jacob Teitelbaum MD
What Doctors Don't Tell You