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Deaths of Famous People
- Adolf Hitler: A War On Drugs
- Al Capone: Crime Does Not Pay
- Al Capp’s Li’l Abner
- Al Oerter: Weak Heart in a Strong Body
- Alan Thicke and Aortic Dissection
- Alan Turing, Code Breaker and Computer Genius
- Albert Finney’s Kidney Cancer Treatments
- Alice Coachman, First Olympic Gold to a Black Woman
- Alma Mahler, Muse to Many
- Amy Winehouse: Sudden Death from Alcohol Poisoning
- Ancel Keys and John Yudkin Were Both Right about Meat and Sugar
- Andre the Giant and Acromegaly
- Andy Warhol’s Young Death
- Antonin Scalia: Incredibly Bad Health Decisions
- Antonio Vivaldi’s Asthma
- Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
- Arnold Palmer, a Great Athlete who Died of Heart Failure
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Power of Observation
- Audrey Hepburn’s Rare Cancer
- B.B. King: A Long Life that Should Have Been Longer
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the Best Female Athlete
- Babe Ruth’s Young Death Might Have Been Prevented Today
- Barbara Walters: The Best and Brightest and Dementia
- Baron Larrey, Napoleon’s Surgeon General
- Barry Marshall, from Quack to Nobel Prize
- Barry Wood, a Great Scholar-Athlete
- Bart Starr, Legendary Quarterback
- Beethoven’s Deafness and Death: DNA Analysis of Hair Samples
- Bernie Madoff, Lowlife Ponzi Schemer
- Bess Myerson’s Highs and Lows
- Bicycling is the Most Dangerous Professional Sport
- Bill Russell, the Ultimate Team Player
- Blaze Starr’s Flaming Couch
- Bob Dole, Better than the Best
- Bob Hayes, World’s Fastest Human
- Bob Marley and Melanoma
- Bobbie Battista and Cervical Cancer
- Bobby Caldwell: Death from Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics
- Bobby Farrell of Boney M
- Bobby Hull, Hockey Star with a Dark Side
- Bobby Rydell and the Devastating Effects of Alcohol
- Bret Michaels and Juvenile Diabetes
- Brian Piccolo and Testicular Cancer
- Browning Ross, Distance Running’s Founding Father
- Bruce Lee and Hyponatremia
- Burt Reynolds’ Heart Attack
- C.W. Post, Entrepreneur and Huckster
- Can Hair Turn Grey Overnight?
- Can You Die from Fear? The Baskerville Effect
- Carol Purdie (Diana’s Mother) and The Fall of Singapore
- Carrie Fisher’s Inflammatory Lifestyle
- Cass Elliot: A Tragically Young Death from Morbid Obesity
- Chadwick Boseman, The Black Panther
- Charles Bradley and Stomach Cancer
- Charles Darwin and Panic Disorder
- Charley Pride, Country Music Superstar, Dies of COVID-19
- Charlie Daniels and Hemorrhagic Strokes
- Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer
- Charlotte Rae and Pancreatic Cancer
- Charmian Carr and Lewy Body Dementia
- Chris Klug, the Bravest Olympian
- Christopher Plummer, Oldest Oscar Winner
- Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss
- Chuck Vinci: Heart Damage in a Pre-Steroid Olympic Weightlifter
- Chyna Laurer’s Destructive Choices
- Clark Gable’s Heart Attacks
- Clyde Lovellette: Size Plus Skill
- Cole Porter’s Horrendous Accident
- Colin Powell: Vaccination to Protect the Immune-Compromised
- Comparing the COVID-19 Pandemic to the 1918-1920 Flu Pandemic
- D.L. Menard, the Cajun Hank Williams
- Dallas McCarver, Bodybuilder, Dead at Age 26
- Daryl Dragon of The Captain and Tennille
- David Bowie’s Liver Cancer
- David Cassidy, Teen Idol
- David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash
- David Koch and Prostate Cancer
- David Olney: CPR for a Heart Attack
- Denton Cooley, the Fastest Heart Surgeon
- Desmond Tutu Dies at 90 of Prostate Cancer
- Dick Buerkle and Multiple Systems Atrophy
- Dick Cheney: Sometimes Doctors Lie
- Dick Gregory, Comedian, Protester and Health Entrepreneur
- Did Brahms Have Sleep Apnea?
- Did Chopin Have Cystic Fibrosis?
- Did Roy Orbison Work Himself to Death?
- Diego Maradona, Troubled Best Soccer Player
- Dina Merrill and Dementia
- Dmitri Mendeleev, Father of the Periodic Table
- Don Imus, Prostate Cancer and Emphysema
- Donald Ritchie, Ultramarathon Runner
- Doris Day and Pneumonia in Older People
- Dr. John’s Life of Music
- Dr. Michael DeBakey’s Famous Surgery
- Dr. Robert Atkins, King of Low-Carb Diets
- Dwight Eisenhower: The History of Bed Rest
- E.L. Doctorow: Tobacco Claims Another Victim
- Earl Thomas Conley and Cerebral Atrophy
- Eartha Kitt: Colon Cancer Even with Low Risk
- Ed Asner: “Lou Grant,” “Elf” and “Up”
- Eddie Van Halen and Mouth Cancer
- Edith Piaf, Old Too Young
- Eero Mantryanta’s High EPO Gene
- Einstein’s Brilliant Life and Needless Death
- Eleanor Roosevelt’s Doctors Vindicated 40 Years after Her Death
- Elie Wiesel, Messenger to Mankind
- Elvis Presley was Killed by Inflammation
- Emil Zatopek, the Best Distance Runner
- Emile Zola and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Emily Dickinson, SAD Poet
- Erich Segal: Parkinson’s Disease
- Ernest Duchesne, the Father of Antibiotics
- Eugene O’Neill’s Guilt and Death
- Eva Peron and Cervical Cancer
- Eva Szekely: Holocaust Survivor to Olympic Champion
- Famous Athletes with Asthma
- Famous Stents: Bill Clinton and George Bush
- Fanny Blankers-Koen, Olympian-The Flying Housewife
- Farrah Fawcett: The Price of Beauty
- Fausto Coppi’s Mysterious Death
- Florence Nightingale and Bipolar Disorder
- Franco Columbu, Mr. Olympia
- Franco Harris and the Immaculate Reception
- Frank Sinatra, Voice of the 20th Century
- Franz Kafka and Tuberculosis
- Franz Schubert, Syphilis and Mercury Poisoning
- Fred Kummerow, Hero of the Trans Fat Battle
- Freud and Dreams
- Fuller Albright and Parkinson’s Disease
- Gale Sayers, Dementia from Head Trauma
- Garry Shandling’s High Blood Calcium
- Gene Wilder: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Alzheimer’s
- George Gershwin, Incorrectly Diagnosed with Depression
- George H.W. Bush and Vascular Parkinsonism
- George Jones – Sad Life, Sad Songs
- George Michael: Fatty Liver and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Gerhard Hansen and Leprosy
- Gerty Cori’s Nobel Prize
- Giacomo Casanova, the Great Lover
- Gina Lollobrigida: In Seniors, a Broken Hip is Often Fatal
- Glen Campbell’s Dementia
- Glenn Frey: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Ulcerative Colitis
- Glenn Yarbrough – A Lifetime of Searching
- Gordie Howe, the Toughest Athlete
- Grace Kelly, Death of a Princess
- Gregg Allman and Liver Cancer
- Gustav Born: Choosing the Right Parents
- Gustav Mahler and the Strep Throat that Killed Him
- Gwen Ifill and Uterine Cancer
- Hal Connolly, from Disabled Child to Olympic Gold
- Hank Aaron Did Not Die from Vaccination
- Hank Williams and Spina Bifida
- Harold Reid of The Statler Brothers
- Harry Belafonte – Singer, Actor and Humanitarian
- Harry Truman Probably Had Diabetes
- Helen Reddy and Addison’s Disease
- Hemingway’s Suicide Caused by his Doctors
- Horace Fletcher, the Great Masticator
- Houdini’s Appendix
- Houston McTear, a Natural Runner
- How Did Stalin Die?
- Humphrey Bogart’s Fatal Lifestyle
- Ian Cognito: When Every Minute Counts
- Ida Keeling, Setting Running Records at 100
- Ignaz Semmelweis, Antiseptic Pioneer
- Ilya Metchnikoff: Yogurt, Aging and Auto-Intoxication
- Incredible Senior Athletes
- Ingrid Bergman’s Breast Cancer
- Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction Giant
- Isabella Karle’s Nobel Prize Went to Her Husband
- Itzhak Perlman and Polio
- J. Michael Lane: Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Last as Long as Smallpox?
- Jack Lemmon, American Icon
- Jack Lovelock, the Wonder Miler
- Jackie Gleason’s Colon Cancer
- Jacques Servier and the Fenfluramine Scandal
- James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Conductor
- Jared Lorenzen and the Perils of Obesity
- Jean Harlow, the Blonde Bombshell
- Jean Shepard and Parkinson’s Disease
- Jerry Lee Lewis, “The Killer”
- Jerry Lewis: A Life of Comedy and Pain
- Jerry Quarry: Dementia from Head Injuries
- Jim Bouton and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
- Jim Fixx, Running Guru
- Jim Henson and Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Jimmy Buffett’s Merkel Cell Skin Cancer
- Joan Rivers: No Procedure is Risk-Free
- Joe Diffie and Many Other Musicians Have Died from COVID-19
- Joe DiMaggio’s Famous Last Words
- Joey Feek, the Love Story of 2016
- John Brinkley, Goat Testicle Entrepreneur
- John Enders, Vaccine Pioneer
- John Harvey Kellogg, Right and Wrong
- John Havlicek: Parkinson’s Disease in Athletes
- John Kerry: Hip Replacements and Fractures
- John Madden and Diabetes
- John Nash: A Beautiful Mind Dies
- John Singleton: High Blood Pressure and Strokes
- John Trojanowski, Dementia Research Pioneer
- John Urschel Quits Football
- John von Neumann, Father of the Computer Revolution
- John Wayne’s Cancers: Smoking or Radiation?
- Johnny Cash, the Man in Black
- Johnny Miles Was My Hero
- Joseph Melnick, Another Vaccine Pioneer
- Julian Schwinger and Pancreatic Cancer
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg’s Nobel Prize for Syphilis Treatment
- Kathleen Baker, Amazing Olympian with Crohn’s Disease
- Kelly Catlin: Concussion, Depression and Suicide
- Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
- Kim Kardashian’s Psoriasis
- King George III: Porphyria, Gout and Lead Poisoning
- Kirk Douglas: 23 Years of Rehabilitation After a Stroke
- Kirstie Alley and Colon Cancer
- Kurt Masur, Conductor and Hero
- Larry Flynt, Free Speech Advocate
- Larry King, a Life of 60,000 Interviews
- Leon Russell, A Song For You
- Leonard Bernstein’s Asthma and Heart Failure
- Leonard Nimoy and COPD
- Lili Marleen, the Peace Song of War
- Linus Pauling and Prostate Cancer
- Lisa Marie Presley’s Cause of Death
- Liz Taylor’s Eyelashes: Clue to Rare Genetic Disorder
- Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner’s Daughter
- Louisa Moritz: Death from “Natural Causes”
- Luke Perry: Young Strokes
- Lydia Pinkham and Black Cohosh
- Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Heart Attacks
- Lynn Anderson: Alcohol and Heart Attacks
- Major Taylor, First African-American World Champion
- Mal Whitfield, Olympian and Tuskegee Airman
- Mamo Wolde, Olympian
- Marian Anderson, a Voice that Made History
- Marie Curie, Brilliant Heroine
- Marion Barry, Washington’s ‘Mayor for Life’, Dead at 78
- Marit Bjorgen, Cross Country Skier
- Mark Shields and Kidney Failure
- Marty Robbins, Heart Attacks and Sleep Deprivation
- Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Middleweight Boxing Champion
- Mary Tyler Moore and Type I Diabetes
- Maurice White: Parkinson’s Disease and Mitochondria
- Meat Loaf: COVID-19 and Immune Defects
- Medical History of Cocaine
- Mel Tillis, Stuttering Country Singer
- Merle Haggard: Be Good to Your Lungs
- Michael E. DeBakey, Father of Modern Heart Surgery
- Michael Nesmith of “The Monkees”
- Micheline Ostermeyer, Olympian and Concert Pianist
- Mickey Gilley and The World’s Biggest Honky-Tonk
- Mickey Mantle and Liver Cancer
- Mickey Rooney, Ninety Years Onstage
- Mike Pyle: Head Injuries and Dementia
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Former Soviet President Who Advocated Peace
- Milt Campbell, Olympic Decathlon Champion
- Mitch Petrus Dies of Heat Stroke at 32
- Moses Malone and Darryl Dawkins, NBA Giants
- Mozart and Sore Throats
- Muhammed Ali: Parkinson’s Breakthroughs are Coming
- Munchausen’s Syndrome
- My Favorite Poet, Edgar Allan Poe
- Naim Suleymanoglu, the Pocket Hercules
- Nancy Reagan, First Lady with Many Causes
- Naomi Judd: Hepatitis C, Depression and Anxiety
- Natalie Cole and Hepatitis C
- Natasha Richardson’s Needless Death
- Neal Boyd, AGT Winner, Dead at 42
- Neil Armstrong’s Bypass Surgery
- Neil Fingleton, Game of Thrones Giant
- Neil Simon’s Kidney Disease
- Nelson Rockefeller’s Heart Attack
- Nick Buoniconti and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
- Nico’s Senseless Death
- Oliver Sacks and Melanoma of the Eye
- Olivia Newton-John and Breast Cancer
- Otto Warburg, Cancer Pioneer
- Otzi the Iceman and 5,300 Years of the Diseases of Inflammation
- Patrick Henry’s Wife
- Patty Duke: A Bipolar Life
- Paul Allen and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Paul English: Why Pneumonia is Such a Common Cause of Death in Seniors
- Paul Hornung: Another Football Great Felled by Dementia
- Paul Prudhomme: The Perils of Morbid Obesity
- Paul Robeson, Voice of the Downtrodden
- Peggy Lipton and Colon Cancer
- Pelé, the Greatest Soccer Player Ever
- Penny Marshall, Death by Diabetes
- Peter Huttenlocher, World-Famous Neurologist
- Peter Sellers’s Many Heart Attacks
- Peter Snell, Olympian: Can Extreme Exercise Damage the Heart?
- Peter Tork of The Monkees
- Philip Roth and Heart Failure
- Phyllis George and Polycythemia Rubra Vera
- Phyllis McGuire, Last of the McGuire Sisters
- President Eisenhower Changed the Way Doctors Treat Heart Attacks
- President Harrison Didn’t Die from Not Wearing a Hat
- President John F. Kennedy: Should Health Records Be Released?
- President Van Buren and Late Onset Asthma
- Rachel Carson: Is Breast Cancer an Environmental Disease?
- Rafer Johnson, Olympic Decathlete, Dies from Stroke
- Raoul Dufy’s Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Rapper DMX, Destroyed by His Childhood
- Raquel Welch: Heart Failure and Dementia
- Ray Charles, The Genius
- Regis Philbin’s Lifestyle Changes
- Rene Laennec, Founder of Modern Pulmonology
- Reverend Billy Graham, a Long and Fruitful Life
- Rich Piana: Why Do So Many Bodybuilders Die Young?
- Richard Feynman, Physicist and Humorist
- Richard Nixon’s Paranoia
- Robbie Coltrane, Rubeus Hagrid
- Robbie Robertson and Prostate Cancer
- Robert Durst, Pathological Killer
- Robert Oppenheimer, Remorse for Being Father of the Atomic Bomb
- Robin Leach: Risk Factors for Strokes
- Robin Williams and Lewy Body Dementia
- Roger Ailes and Hemophilia
- Roger Bannister, First Sub-4-Minute Miler
- Roger Ebert and Thyroid Cancer
- Roger Moore’s Many Medical Problems
- Ron Clarke and High Altitude
- Ron Lester and Morbid Obesity
- Ronald Reagan’s Medical History
- Rosalind Franklin, Cheated Out of a Nobel Prize
- Rose Knox: Profit from Brittle Nails
- Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio Legend
- Sam Shepard and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Samuel L. Katz: Measles Vaccines Saved Thousands of Lives
- Scott Hall, Wrestler Known as Razor Ramon, Dies at 63
- Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime
- Sean Connery, Dementia and Death from “Natural Causes”
- Senator Orrin Hatch and Strokes
- Sidney Poitier: Heart Failure, Dementia and Prostate Cancer
- Simon Ramo Did Everything Right
- Sinead O’Connor and Mental Illness
- Sinead O’Connor’s Fibromyalgia
- Srinivasa Ramanujan, Math Prodigy
- Stella Walsh, Helen Stephens and Lia Thomas: Should Transgenders Compete in Women’s Sports?
- Stephen Furst, Flounder, Diabetic at 17
- Stephen Hawking, Genius with ALS
- Stephen Sondheim and Sudden Death in Older People
- Steve Harwell: Brain Damage from Alcohol
- Steve Jobs and Pancreatic Cancer
- Sumner Redstone’s Dementia
- Sylvester Graham: White Flour is a Sin
- Tab Hunter, 1950s Heart Throb
- Tammy Wynette and the Pain of Gall Bladder Disease
- Tchaikovsky’s Death: Cholera, Suicide or Murder?
- Ted Corbitt, the Father of Long Distance Running
- Ted Kennedy’s Brain Cancer
- Ted Williams, the Greatest Hitter
- The Death of Benjamin Franklin
- The Despicable Dr. Julius Reiter
- The Heat Stroke Death of Korey Stringer
- The On-and-Off Partnership of Tammy Wynette and George Jones
- The Sad Story of Karen Carpenter
- The Scandalous Life and Death of President Harding
- Thomas Edison: “Sleep is a Waste of Time”
- Tim Conway and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Tim McCarver: Heart Failure in a Great Athlete
- Tina Turner: High Blood Pressure and Kidney Failure
- Tom Fleming, Marathoner Who Out-Trained Everyone Else
- Tom Hanks, Diabetes and YoYo Dieting
- Tom Hayden’s Life of Protest
- Tom Magliozzi, Host of “Car Talk”
- Tom Petty’s Heart Attack
- Tom Simpson, Death from Heat Stroke
- Tom Sizemore: Brain Aneurysm
- Tommy Heinsohn, Beloved Boston Celtic
- Tommy Kono, Greatest Weightlifter in US History
- Tony Gwynn, Mr. Padre, Dead at 54
- Tony Siragusa, Genetic Obesity and Heart Attacks
- Topol: 3500 Performances as Tevya in Fiddler On The Roof
- Tori Bowie, Signals for Help
- Toshiko D’Elia, Marathon Champion, Dies at 84
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Inbreeding, Alcohol and Syphilis – a Bad Mix
- Ty Cobb: Anger in Athletes
- Tyler Amburgey, Hockey and COVID-19
- Typhoid Mary’s Gall Bladder
- Van Cliburn, Cold War Hero
- Van Gogh’s Yellow Coronas
- Vera Caslavska, the Most Courageous Olympian
- Vera Caslavska: Marriage of Two Great Olympic Athletes
- Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart
- Was Hans Asperger a Nazi?
- Waylon Jennings’ Years of Pain
- What Killed Alexander the Great?
- What Killed Mario Lanza at Age 38?
- What Killed President Andrew Jackson?
- Who Killed George Washington?
- Who Killed President Garfield?
- Why Did Ultimate Warrior Die at 54?
- Wilhelm Weichardt’s Treatment for Chronic Fatigue
- William Coley, Quack or Prophet?
- William Hurt and Prostate Cancer
- Wilma Rudolph: Olympian and Polio Survivor
- Wilt Chamberlain’s Myocarditis
- Winston Churchill, the Most Influential Man of the 20th Century
- Zachary Taylor’s Salmonella
- Zsa Zsa Gabor Dies at 99
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Fitness
- Achilles Tendinitis
- All Exercise is Good, and Vigorous Exercise is Better
- All Exercisers Can Benefit from Elite Training Methods
- All Exercisers Can Gain Health Benefits from Elite Training Methods
- Anabolic Steroids
- Ankle Weights Won’t Help You to Run Faster
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tears
- Arm Exercises: Conductors Often Have Long Lives
- Basic Resistance Band Training
- Being Active Can Help to Prevent Cancer
- Being Physically Active Helps to Prevent Heart Attacks and Some Cancers
- Belly Cramps During Exercise
- Benefit from a Few Minutes of Vigorous Activity Each Day
- Benefits of Exercise from a Pill?
- Benefits of Exercising for Both Endurance and Strength
- Bicycles Are Most Energy Efficient
- Blisters
- Both Lifting Weights and Exercising Intensely Help to Prolong Lives
- Brain Benefits from Exercise
- Build Muscle and Improve Balance with T’ai Chi
- Caffeine Boosts Endurance and Strength
- Calculate Your Fitness Age
- Can Intense Exercise Increase Your Risk for a Heart Attack?
- Cancer Patients Benefit From Exercise
- Carbohydrate Loading DOES NOT Work
- Challenging Your Brain During Exercise May Help to Prevent Dementia
- Cold Weather Can Kill
- Cold Weather Exercise in 2021
- Cold Weather May Help You Lose Weight
- Competitive Athletes and Doping
- Cooling Down After Intense Exercise
- Creatine
- Cupping for Faster Recovery
- Cycling Cadence
- Cyclists Age Better
- Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)
- Dizziness in Athletes
- Does Ultra-Endurance Exercise Harm the Heart?
- Don’t Just Sit at Any Age
- Don’t Straighten Your Knees While Running or Cycling
- Don’t Use Aspirin or NSAIDs for Muscle Pain from Exercise
- Drink Sugar and Caffeine Only During Vigorous Exercise
- Eat and Sleep to Recover from Intense Exercise
- Eat Carbohydrates During Competition, Not Fat
- Eat to Compete
- Eating Carbohydrates Before Lifting Weights Can Help You Lift Heavier Weights
- Eating During and After Intense Workouts Makes You a Better Athlete
- Elastic Resistance Bands Can Make You As Strong As Lifting Weights
- Electric-Assist Bikes and Trikes
- Electronic Ab Machines
- Even a 100-Year-Old Can Improve with Training
- Everyone Should Exercise After Meals
- Exercise and the Gut Microbiome
- Exercise Choices for the Out-of-Shape
- Exercise Every Day or Every Other Day?
- Exercise for Both Endurance AND Intensity
- Exercise Helps to Prevent Dementia
- Exercise Improves Gut Bacteria
- Exercise May Change Gut Bacteria for More Endurance
- Exercise May Help to Prevent Dementia
- Exercise Preserves Brain Function
- Exercise Promotes Good Gut Bacteria
- Exercise Really Does Help You
- Exercise to Boost Your Immune System
- Exercise to Help Prevent a Heart Attack
- Exercise to Help Prevent Infections
- Exercise to Reduce Muscle Loss and Inflammation
- Exercise to Reduce Risk for High Blood Pressure
- Exercise Treats Insulin Resistance
- Exercise with Flu or a Cold
- Exercise-Induced Asthma (EIA)
- Exercisers – Know the Side Effects of Your Medications
- Exercisers Should Follow a Heart-Healthy Diet
- Exercising in Air Pollution
- Exercising in Cold Weather
- Extra Protein Does Not Enlarge Muscles
- Families with Diabetes Produce Strong Athletes
- Flat Feet, Pigeon Toes and Bow Legs
- Fruit Beats Sports Drinks for Exercisers
- Get Stronger in 30 Minutes a Week
- Good News for Male Cyclists
- Heat Stroke
- Helmets Save Lives
- High Blood Sugar Limits Benefits from Exercise
- High Fitness Level Linked to Reduced Risk for Cancers
- High-Intensity Interval Training Can Increase Injuries
- How Exercise Affects Your Immunity
- How Exercise Helps to Prevent Diabetes and Heart Attacks
- How Exercise Prolongs Your Life
- How Exercise Reduces Risk for Dementia
- How Fast Do You Lose Fitness When You Stop Exercising?
- How Inactivity Can Cause Heart Failure
- How Many Miles Cycling Equal Miles Running?
- How Much Should You Exercise?
- How Often Should You Lift Weights?
- How Protein Builds Muscles
- How to Avoid Overtraining
- How to Become Strong
- How to Become Stronger: Weight Training for Middle-Aged and Older People
- How to Do Interval Training
- How to Get Your Second Wind
- How to Jump Higher
- How to Keep Running as You Age
- How to Keep Your Maximum Heart Rate Up as You Age
- How to Pedal a Bicycle
- How to Prepare for Skiing When There’s No Snow
- How to Prevent Wear-and-Tear Injuries
- How To Run Faster
- How to Start a Running Program
- How to Start an Exercise Program
- How to Strengthen Your Immunity
- How to Walk Faster
- How We Learned That Lactic Acid Is Good For You
- Hyponatremia – Low Sodium Caused by Too Much Water
- Hypothermia
- Inactivity Causes Muscle Loss
- Interval Training for Sports
- Interval Training Helps Your Heart
- Intervals for Everyone
- Intervals: The Best Way to Increase Intensity
- Is Napping Healthful?
- Isometric Exercise
- Jump Higher
- Just a Little Exercise Every Day Could Prevent 110,000 Deaths Per Year
- Keep Moving for a Longer and Better Life
- Keep On Moving to Prolong Your Life
- Keep Your Muscles Strong As You Age
- Knee Injury Rehabilitation
- Knee Pain in Bicycle Riders
- Lack of Exercise is Worse Than Prolonged Sitting
- Lack of Fitness, Not Too Much Sitting, Shortens Lives
- Lack of Vitamin D May Harm Exercisers
- Lactic Acid is Good for You: Why Everyone with a Healthy Heart Should Do Interval Exercise
- Late Afternoon Exercise Helps to Control Blood Sugar, Cholesterol and Triglycerides
- Lifestyle Can Override Genes
- Lifting Weights Helps to Lower High Blood Pressure
- Lifting Weights Won’t Make You Musclebound
- Listen to Your Body
- Low Vitamin D Increases Risk for Sports Injuries
- Low-Carbohydrate Diets Harm Athletic Performance
- Low-Carbohydrate, High-Fat Diets for Endurance?
- Making Muscles Stronger
- Mamo Wolde, Olympian
- Mary Cain and Forced Weight Loss for Sports
- Maximum Heart Rate Formula
- Mild Dehydration Does Not Impair Exercise
- Mitochondria and Gut Bacteria Work Together for More Endurance
- More Mitochondria for Better Athletes?
- More Reasons to Exercise as You Grow Older
- Motor-Assist Bicycles: Benefits of Passive Exercise
- Muscle Cramps: Prevention and Treatment
- Muscle Loss from Inactivity: 34 Percent in Just Two Weeks
- Muscle Stimulating Machines
- Muscles and Diet
- Muscles Weaken with Aging Even If You Exercise
- No More Junk Miles
- No Need to Measure Maximum Heart Rate
- NSAIDs Can Interfere with Exercise or Training
- NSAIDs May Block Gains in Endurance and Strength
- Orthotics
- Our New Tandem Ti-Trike
- Over-Training, or Too Much Exercise
- Overnight Fasting to Increase Speed and Endurance
- Oxygenated Water: Good for Fish, Worthless for Humans
- Physical Activity and Longevity
- Physical Activity to Help Prevent Diseases and Dementia
- Physically Active Jobs vs Leisure-Time Exercise
- Piriformis Syndrome
- Placebos to Race Faster
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Prepare for a Marathon
- Preparing for Baseball
- Prevent Running Injuries with Shorter Strides and Orthotics
- Principles of Training
- Protein Shakes for Muscle Building May Not Be Safe
- Protein Supplements Don’t Make You Stronger
- Push-Ups: Train to Do the Most
- Recovery: the Key to Improvement in Your Sport
- Recreational Exercise Better Than Physically Active Jobs
- Recreational Runners and Cyclists Should Lift Weights
- Repairing Damaged Knee Cartilage
- Research on Intense Exercise
- Resistance Exercise Becomes Even More Important As You Age
- Resistance Exercise You Can Do at Home
- Resistance Training for Endurance Sports
- Restricting Carbohydrates Slows You Down
- Retaining Strength with Aging
- Robert Marchand Sets Amazing World Record at 105
- Rotator Cuff Injuries
- Runner’s Heart: The Consequences of Competitive Exercise
- Runner’s Knee (Knee Cap Pain)
- Running Injuries from Over-Striding
- Running May Help to Protect Your Knees
- Running Stride Length and Speed
- Sarcopenia (Muscle Loss with Aging) Linked to Inflammation
- Sarcopenia of Aging: Loss of Muscle Size and Strength
- Second Wind
- Short Intervals are Best
- Should You Breathe Through Your Nose or Your Mouth When You Exercise?
- Should You Carry Weights during Exercise?
- Should You Carry Weights while Walking or Jogging?
- Should You Cool Down after Exercise?
- Should You Exercise During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- Should You Wear a Mask When You Exercise Outdoors?
- Side Stitch: Belly Pain while Running
- Sit Ups for Belly Strength
- Sit-ups the Right Way
- Sitting Will Not Harm Vigorous Exercisers
- Sleep Improves Athletic Performance
- Sleep to Recover
- Sleep to Recover from Hard Exercise
- Slope on Treadmills
- Slow Lifting
- Slow Runners Don’t Come Out Ahead
- Slowing Loss of Bone and Muscle Strength with Aging
- Some Athletes will Always Cheat to Win
- Some Health Benefits of Exercise May Come from Changes in Colon Bacteria
- Spinning Classes
- Spot Reduction Doesn’t Work
- Standing Is Not Much Better Than Sitting
- Strength Training Guidelines
- Strength Training May Reduce Deaths from Heart Attacks and Cancers
- Strengthen Quad Muscles to Help Your Knees
- Stress Fractures – Prevention and Treatment
- Stretching Doesn’t Deliver
- Sugar for Intense Exercise
- Sugar for Prolonged, Hard Exercise
- Super Slow Training
- Support Stockings
- Temperature During Exercise
- Ten-Minute Workouts for Fitness
- Tennis Elbow: A Home Treatment that Works
- The 30-20-10 Plan to Boost Your Exercise Progam
- The Placebo Effect and Supplements
- The Rime of The Ancient Marathoner
- Time-Restricted Eating for Serious Exercisers
- Too Much Intense Exercise May Harm You
- Triathalon Training
- Try a Trike
- Walk Faster, Live Longer
- Warming Up
- Weak Muscles Increase Risk for Dementia
- Weak Muscles Predict Accelerated Aging, Disability and Death
- Weak Muscles Predict Dementia
- Weekend Warriors Gain Full Benefit From Their Exercise
- What is Lactic Acid?
- What to Eat and Drink for Hot Weather Exercise
- What to Eat Before Prolonged Exercise
- What to Eat Before, During and After a Bicycle Ride
- Which Burns More Calories, Running or Cycling?
- Why Do Sled Dogs have So Much More Endurance than Humans?
- Why Humans Can Run Marathons and Apes Cannot
- Why Ice Delays Recovery
- Why You Sweat More After Exercise
- You Can’t Be Too Fit
- Your Muscles Make Your Heart Stronger
Health
- A “Normal” BMI Can Miss The Harmful Effects of Excess Body Fat
- A Cure for Cancer is Coming
- A First Vaccine for COVID-19
- A Low-Fiber Diet to Treat Constipation?
- Active Watching of Prostate Cancer is Usually Safe, but Not Always
- Added Sugars Linked to High Blood Pressure
- Agent Orange Does Not Cause Diabetes
- Aging and Risk for Dementia
- Alcohol and Heart Attacks
- Alcohol At Any Dose Can Increase Cancer Risk
- Alcohol Increases Risk for Heart Attacks and Cancers
- All Cancer Treatments Should Include Lifestyle Improvements
- Almost All U.S. COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Deaths Are Now In Unvaccinated People
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Alzheimer’s Disease May Come From an Infection
- Angina: Chest Pain During Exercise
- Angioplasty’s Questionable Results
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankylosing Spondylitis (Reactive Arthritis of the Spine)
- Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle Reduces Deaths from Prostate and Breast Cancers
- Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle to Help Prevent Dementia as You Age
- Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle to Treat Many Diseases
- Antioxidant Pills Can Cause Cancer to Spread
- Any Amount of Alcohol Increases Cancer Risk
- Are Electric Blankets Safe?
- Arteriosclerosis is Reversible
- Arthritis and Antibiotics – Archive from DrMirkin.com before 2015
- Arthritis and Colon Bacteria
- Arthritis and Colon Bacteria (Long)
- Arthroscopic Knee Surgery is Usually Useless
- Aspirin to Prevent Colon Cancer?
- Aspirin’s Benefits from Plants
- Athlete’s Foot
- Atrial Fibrillation in Endurance Athletes
- Atrial Fibrillation: Irregular Heartbeats
- Auto-Immune Diseases and Inflammation
- Autophagy: Self-Eating Breakthrough
- Avoid Ultra Violet Lamps for COVID-19
- Back Pain from Osteoporosis
- Bad Colon Bacteria May Cause Heart Attacks
- Baldness
- Be Wary of Stem Cell Clinics
- Beat Diabetes By Getting Fat Out of Your Liver and Muscles
- Being Overweight Increases Cancer Risk
- Being Overweight Increases Risk for Many Cancers
- Belly Fat Predicts a Heart Attack
- Belly Fat Predicts Fatty Liver and Diabetes
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Bent Penis: Peyronie’s Disease
- Best Diet to Prevent and Treat Diabetes
- Best Times to Brush Your Teeth
- Beta Blocker Side Effects
- Bicycling Does Not Raise PSA
- Blocking Inflammation to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Blood Pressure During and After Exercise
- Blood Pressure Guidelines
- Blood Pressure is Often Higher in Wintertime
- Blood Type
- Body Odor
- Both Low and High HDL Can Predict Harm
- Brain Health Supplements Are a Waste of Money
- Brain Tissue Loss Linked to Diabetes
- Breakfast Skippers Have More Plaques
- Breakthrough Research from Winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Breast Cancer and Diet
- Breast Cancer Survival Improves with Healthful Lifestyles
- Bunions (Hallux Valgus)
- Can Cancer Cells be Starved to Death?
- Can Cell Phones Cause Memory Loss or Cancer?
- Can Your Cholesterol be Too Low?
- Cancer Cells and Sugar
- Cancer Is Not Just a Random Disease
- Cancer Patients Are At Increased Risk for Heart Attacks
- Cancer Treatment Should Include Heart Attack Prevention
- Cancer Treatment Should Include Lifestyle Improvements
- Cancer-Causing HPV Found in 20 Percent of U.S. Adults and Teens
- Cellulite
- Check Your Blood Pressure At Night
- Check Your Own Blood Pressure
- Cholesterol Absorbed from Food
- Cholesterol Guidelines
- Chronic Constipation
- Chronic Prostatitis Can Be Cured
- Chronic Sinusitis
- Co-Enzyme Q10 Pills Do Not Lessen Muscle Aches from Statins
- Cod Liver Oil for Arthritis
- Cold Hands – Raynaud’s Phenomenon
- Colon Bacteria and Arthritis
- Colon Cancer and Bacteria
- Colon Cancer Associated with Sugared Drinks and Foods
- Colon Cancer May Be Caused by Bacteria
- Colon Cancer Prevention and Treatment
- Colon Cancer Risk and Neu5Gc Antibodies
- Colon Cancer, a Preventable Disease?
- Colon Cancer, Gut Bacteria and Diet
- Colon Cleansers
- Colon Cleansers Can Harm
- Colorectal Cancer Remission with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Drugs
- Combination Pill to Prevent Heart Attacks?
- Constipation
- Constipation and Herpes
- Controlling High Blood Pressure
- Corns and Calluses
- COVID-19 Precautions May Affect Other Respiratory Infections in the Future
- COVID-19 Update – Vaccines Are Very Effective
- Daily Aspirin is Beneficial Primarily for People at High Risk for a Heart Attack
- Daily Aspirin May Not Save Lives
- Dangers of Shoveling Snow
- DASH (High-Plant) Diet for Heart Health, Weight Loss and Diabetes Prevention/Control
- Deaths from Liver Cancer Increasing
- Deceptive Headlines about Exercise and Heart Attacks
- Delay Dementia with Lifestyle
- Dementia Linked to Excess Belly Fat
- Dementia May Be Preventable
- Dementia Risk Increased by Harmful Bacteria in Your Colon
- Dementia Risk May Be Increased by Some Common Drugs
- Depression or Tiredness: Low Thyroid Function?
- Diabetes Caused by Both Excess Fat and Excess Sugar
- Diabetes is Often Missed
- Diabetes: A New Explanation
- Diet and Arthritis Pain
- Diet to Lower Cholesterol
- Do Not Overdose on Vitamin D
- Does Ivermectin Treat COVID-19?
- Does Marijuana or Hemp Affect Brain Health?
- Drugs Given to President Trump for COVID-19
- Drugs to Lower Blood Pressure
- Dry Skin
- Dry, Cracked Skin on Heels (Fissures)
- Duct Tape for Warts
- Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS)
- E. Coli Syndrome in Women
- Early Breast Cancers May Be Over-Treated
- Early Diagnosis Helps to Prevent and Treat Colon Cancer
- Early Warning Signs of Dementia
- Eat Before or After Exercising to Prevent a High Rise in Blood Sugar
- Eating Mammal Meat is Associated with Increased Risk for Gastro-Intestinal Cancers
- Excess Belly Fat Increases Heart Attack Risk Even If You Are Not Overweight
- Excess Fat in the Liver Causes Type II Diabetes
- Excess Fat in Your Liver Increases Risk for Heart Attacks, Strokes and Dementia
- Excess Weight Linked to Larger Plaques
- Excess Weight Raises Cancer Risk
- Exercise and Plaques
- Exercise Better Than Calorie Restriction to Control a Fatty Liver
- Exercise Can Help to Treat (and Prevent) Cancer
- Exercise for Arthritis
- Exercise for Osteoarthritis
- Exercise Helps People with Heart Disease
- Exercise lowers homocysteine
- Exercise Reduces Risk for 13 Types of Cancer
- Exercise Should Be Part of the Treatment for Cancer
- Exercise to Help Prevent and Treat Diabetes
- Exercise to Treat Arthritis
- Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques
- Fasting Blood Sugar Can Be Too Low
- Fatty Liver Can Cause Diabetes, Heart Attacks and Cancers
- Fatty Liver Disease and Diabetes
- FDA Proposes New Sunscreen Rules
- FDA Warns Not to Use Sunscreen Pills
- Fish Oil Pills Have Not Been Shown to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Fitness Prevents Impotence
- Flu Shots
- Foot Health Reports
- Foot Odor
- Forgetfulness is Not Necessarily a Warning Sign of Dementia
- Frequent Urination at Night
- Frostbite
- Fungus Toenails – Deformed Toenails
- Gas Stoves May Be Harmful
- Genes and Belly Fat
- Get Rid of Fat in Liver to Cure Type II Diabetes
- Get Your Flu Shot Now
- Getting Frequent Infections Can Precede Cancer Diagnosis
- Getting Rid of Dark Spots on the Skin
- Gilbert’s Disease
- Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate for Arthritic Pain
- Gluten Lowers Cholesterol
- Gout
- Grapefruit Juice Effects on Drugs
- Guidelines for COVID-19 Fully Vaccinated People
- Gut Bacteria and Auto-Immune Diseases
- Gut Bacteria and Colon Cancer Risk Factors
- Gut Bacteria Associated with Colon Cancer
- Gut Bacteria Linked to Diabetes
- Gut Bacteria to Help Treat and Prevent Cancers
- Hammer Toes
- Having High Cholesterol Increases Risk for Dementia
- HDL Cholesterol is Not All Good and LDL Cholesterol is Not All Bad
- Head Injuries Increase Risk for Impotence
- Healthful Diet Helps to Prevent Colon Cancer
- Healthful Habits Reduce Risk for Dementia
- Healthful Lifestyle Linked to Lower Death Rate in Parkinson’s Disease
- Healthful Lifestyle Reduces Risk of Dying from Prostate Cancer
- Healthful Lifestyles to Prevent Cancer
- Healthy Aging and Senescent Cells
- Heart Attack Prevention
- Heart Attack Prevention Guidelines
- Heart Attacks and Cancers Share the Same Risk Factors
- Heart-Healthy Diet
- Height Loss with Aging
- Helicobacter and Stomach Ulcers
- Hepatitis C
- Herd Immunity With Vaccines
- Herpes
- High Blood Pressure and Colon Bacteria
- High Blood Pressure Increases Risk for Dementia
- High Blood Sugar After Meals Predicts Heart Attacks
- High Blood Sugar Increases Risk for Complications in COVID-19
- High Blood Sugar Linked to Prostate Enlargement, Low Testosterone and Prostate Cancer
- High Calcium Artery Score Doesn’t Always Mean High Risk for a Heart Attack
- High HDL Cholesterol May Not Protect You from a Heart Attack
- High Rise in Blood Sugar After Meals Increases Risk for Dementia
- High Sugar Intake Associated with Increased Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
- High Triglycerides Are a Major Risk Factor for Heart Attacks and Diabetes
- High-Plant Diet Lowers Blood Pressure
- High-Plant, Low-Salt Diet to Lower Blood Pressure
- History of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- How can I prevent wrinkles?
- How Diet Can Lower High Blood Pressure
- How Do You Catch a Cold?
- How Eating and Drinking Sugar Can Cause Diabetes
- How Excess Fat Can Spread Cancer
- How Excess Weight Can Cause Arthritis
- How Exercise Helps to Prevent Some Cancers
- How Low Should Your Cholesterol Be?
- How Pre-Diabetes Increases Risk for Dementia
- How Prunes Treat Constipation
- How Soluble Fiber Helps to Prevent Heart Attacks
- How Soluble Fiber Lowers High Blood Pressure
- How Sugar Can Fill Your Liver with Fat
- How Sugar-Added Foods and Drinks Increase Risk for Heart Disease
- How to Avoid Skin Cancer
- How Would I Treat Myself If I Got COVID-19?
- How Your Diet Affects Your Blood Pressure
- Impotence in Men with Diabetes
- Impotence is a Major Risk Factor for Heart Attacks
- Impotence Often Precedes a Heart Attack
- Inactivity Increases Risk for Diabetes
- Inactivity Increases Risk for Knee Pain
- Inactivity Linked to Arthritis
- Inappropriate Stents
- Inflammation Can Help or Harm
- Inflammation May Explain Association of Dementia with Constipation
- Inflammation Tests More Effective than Cholesterol Tests as Predictors of Heart Attacks
- Ingrown Toenails
- Inhaled COVID-19 Vaccine Being Tested
- Insulin Resistance Predicts Heart Attacks and Diabetes
- Intense Exercise May Reduce Cancer Spread
- Intense Exercise Prevents and Treats Diabetes
- Intense Exercisers Have More Plaques but Fewer Heart Attacks
- Irregular Heartbeats in Lifelong Exercisers
- Irregular Heartbeats in Older Athletes and Exercisers
- Irregular Heartbeats in Senior Athletes and Exercisers
- Irregular Periods – Amenorrhea
- Itching with no visible cause
- Jim Allison’s Nobel Prize: Toward a Cure for Cancer
- Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine Approved
- Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine is Coming
- Junk Food Raises Cancer Risk
- Knee Osteoarthritis: Exercise Therapy More Effective than Surgery
- Knee Pain: Treat with Lifestyle Changes
- Lack of Sleep Linked to Risk for Dementia
- Large Doses of Vitamin D Can Be Harmful
- Latest Advice on the COVID-19 Pandemic
- LDL Cholesterol Can Be Too Low
- Less Salt, More Potassium to Help Prevent Heart Attacks
- Lifestyle After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
- Lifestyle and Drugs to Treat Osteoporosis
- Lifestyle Changes Do Help to Prevent Cancers and Heart Attacks
- Lifestyle Changes Help to Treat Cancer
- Lifestyle Changes to Lower Blood Pressure
- Lifestyle Changes to Prevent and Treat Diabetes
- Lifestyle Changes to Reduce Joint Pain
- Lifestyle Changes to Treat and Prevent Prostate Cancer
- Lifestyle Factors Linked to Delaying Memory Loss
- Long COVID Syndrome
- Long COVID-19 Syndrome
- Loss of Hearing is a Major Risk Factor for Dementia
- Low Vitamin D Can Increase Risk for and Severity of COVID-19
- Low Vitamin D Increases Risks for Heart Attacks and Severe COVID-19
- Lyme Disease
- Lyme Disease May Be Transmitted Between Humans
- Making Vaccines to Stop the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Male Hair Loss and Heart Attacks
- Male Infertility
- Mammal Meat is Associated with Increased Risk for Diabetes
- Manipulation for Low Back Pain
- Many Cases of COVID-19 Come from People with No Symptoms
- Many Common Drugs Can Raise Blood Pressure
- Many Common Drugs Linked to Risk for Dementia
- Masks Do Not Block Breathing
- Meat and Heart Disease
- Meat Increases Risk for Type II Diabetes
- Meats Linked to Fatty Liver and Diabetes
- Mediterranean Diet Associated with Improved Sexuality in Men
- Melanomas are Often Not on Moles
- Messenger RNA May Help to Beat Cancer
- Metabolic Syndrome Predicts Heart Attacks and Diabetes
- Midlife Obesity Increases Risk for Dementia
- Mitral Valve Prolapse
- Monkeypox Declared a Public Health Emergency
- More Benefits of Mid-Life Fitness for Men
- More Links Between Cancers and Sugar
- More Vegetables, Less Diabetes
- Morgan Freeman’s Diabetes
- Most Type II Diabetics Could Be Cured with Lifestyle Changes
- Most Type II Diabetics Should Lose Weight, Even If They Are Not Overweight
- Most Urinary Symptoms are Caused by Infections
- MRIs Help to Reduce Prostate Biopsies
- Muscle Pain from Statins
- Muscle Pain While Taking Statins for High Cholesterol
- My SHOW ME! Diet
- Neu5Gc: A Genetic Reason Why Humans Have More Heart Attacks Than Other Mammals
- Neuroma (Pinched nerve between foot bones)
- Neuropathy
- New COVID-19 Vaccine Appears to Be More Protective
- New Drug May Slow Down Alzheimer’s Disease
- New Guidelines on Aspirin for Heart Attack Prevention
- New Studies on Fatty Liver
- Night-Time Leg Cramps
- Night-Time Urination May Be Caused by Excess Salt
- Nightly Fasting Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence
- No Way to Grow Taller After Puberty
- Nonsteroidals Can Delay Healing
- Normal Fasting Blood Sugar Does Not Rule Out Diabetes
- NSAIDs and Heart Attack Risk
- NSAIDs May Increase Heart Attack Risk
- Nuts Linked to Improved Colon Cancer Outcomes
- Omega-3’s from Fish and Plants Help to Prevent Heart Attacks
- One Alcoholic Drink a Day Linked to Higher Blood Pressure
- One Injection of HPV Vaccine Can Prevent Many Cancers
- Osteoarthritis and Inflammation
- Osteoarthritis has Doubled in the Last Fifty Years
- Osteoarthritis Linked to Inflammation
- Osteoarthritis Probably Caused By Inflammation
- Osteoporosis and Diet
- Ovarian Cancer and Talcum Powder
- Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
- Overdiagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease
- Overweight Increases Cancer Risk
- Oxycholesterol and Cholesterol
- Parkinson’s Disease vs Benign (Essential) Tremors
- Partial Knee Replacement
- People Who Have Had COVID-19 Are Protected for Three Months, Probably More
- Pepper Cream for Pain Control
- Permanent Birth Control Methods: Vasectomy or Tubal Ligation?
- Pfizer Vaccine 90 Percent Effective in Early Data
- Plant-Based Diets for Heart Health
- Plaques are Reversible
- Plaques in Arteries are Reversible
- Plastic Water Bottles May Be Harmful
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Potential Drugs, Treatments and Vaccines for COVID-19
- Potential Treatments for COVID-19
- PPIs May Increase Heart Attack Risk
- Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes Increase Heart Attack Risk
- Predict Your Heart Attack Risk
- Predicting Longevity
- Premature Ejaculation
- Prevent Diabetes with Exercise and a Plant-Based Diet
- Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
- Preventing Dementia
- Preventing Kidney Stones
- Preventing Osteoporosis
- Preventing Prostate Cancer
- Prostate Biopsy Not So Benign
- Prostate Cancer and Heart Attacks
- Prostate Cancer and Heart Attacks Share Lifestyle Factors
- Prostate Cancer Treatment Choices
- Prostate Cancer Treatments
- Prostate Supplements Not What They Claim to Be
- Protecting Yourself from COVID-19
- Protein Found in Belly Fat Increases Cancer Risk
- Protein Loading May Increase Risk for Heart Attacks
- PSA Test for Prostate Cancer
- Questions About Stents
- Radon
- Recent News on COVID-19
- Recovery Heart Rate
- Red Yeast Rice Pills
- Reduce Heart Attack Risk with Vegetable Oils
- Reduce Inflammation and Clotting to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Reduce Inflammation to Help Prevent Cancer
- Reducing Alcohol Intake May Help to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Replacing Meat with Poultry or Fish Reduces Diabetes Risk
- Resting Heart Rates Can Be Too High or Too Low
- Restless Legs Syndrome is Very Common
- Restrict Added Sugars to Reduce Heart Attack Risk
- Ringing in the Ears – Tinnitus
- Risk Factors for Dementia and Heart Attacks Start Early in Life
- Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer
- Risk for Dementia Goes Down with Steps to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Routine CT Scans Can Increase Cancer Risk
- Running and Walking May Be Good for Your Back
- Safety of the Messenger RNA Vaccines for COVID-19 (Pfizer and Moderna)
- Second Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine Can Be Delayed if Necessary
- Should Men Take Testosterone?
- Should You Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?
- Should You Take Melatonin to Help You Fall Asleep?
- Simple Test to Predict Risk of Diabetes and Heart Attacks
- Skin Cancer Treatments
- Sleep Problems Associated with Increased Stroke Risk
- Sleep Problems Can Be Harmful
- Sleeping with Lights on and Not Getting Enough Sleep Both Increase Risk for Diabetes
- Slim Evidence for Stem Cell Treatment of Arthritis
- Slow Heart Rate
- Smoking Increases Cervical Cancer Risk
- Some Cases of Dementia Have Effective Treatments
- Stabilizing Plaques with Exercise and Possibly Statins
- Stable Plaques: Why Exercisers Have Fewer Heart Attacks?
- Statin Drugs and Exercise
- Statin Drugs and Muscle Pain
- Statin Drugs Help to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Statin Guidelines Flawed
- Statin Side Effects
- Statins and Alternatives to Lower Cholesterol
- Statins, Low Vitamin D and Muscle Pain
- Stents and Bypass Surgery
- Stents and Bypass Surgery Not More Effective than Lifestyle Changes and Medication for Stable Heart Disease
- Storing Fat in Your Liver Can Kill You
- Strength Training to Help Prevent and Treat Osteoporosis
- Sudden Dizziness or Meniere’s Disease
- Sugared Drinks and Diabetes
- Sugared Drinks Cause Fatty Liver
- Sunlight May Help to Prevent Auto-Immune Diseases by Altering Gut Bacteria
- Sunlight: More than Vitamin D
- Sunscreens
- Sunscreens and Sun Protection
- Sunscreens Only Partially Block the Sun’s Rays
- Supplements Don’t Lower Cholesterol
- Suspected Carcinogens in Some Sunscreens
- Sweet Drinks Raise Risk for Diabetes
- Swollen Feet and Ankles
- Swollen Testicles: Varicoceles and Hydroceles
- Synvisc Injections Equal Cortisone for Knee Pain
- Systolic or Diastolic Blood Pressure
- T’ai Chi for Arthritis
- Taking Testosterone Increases Risk for Clots in Lungs
- Testosterone for Older Men
- Testosterone Increases Heart Attack Risk
- Testosterone Replacement for Older Men?
- Testosterone to Prevent Heart Attacks?
- Testosterone Warnings
- The Current Coronavirus Pandemic – Updated
- The Hidden Cause of Many Heart Attacks
- The Hidden Epidemic of Early Diabetes
- The Latest on COVID-19
- The Latest on COVID-19: Archive
- The Latest on Monkeypox
- The Search for Drugs to Treat COVID-19
- Three Effective COVID-19 Vaccines Should Be Available Soon
- Tietze’s Syndrome or Costochondritis
- Tinea Versicolor
- Too Many Stents
- Too Much Skin Washing?
- Total Body Scans
- Total Knee Replacement
- Treat Diabetes with Diet and Exercise
- Treat High Blood Pressure with Lifestyle Changes
- Treatable Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19
- Treating Type II Diabetes and High Blood Pressure with Diet
- Treatment of COVID-19
- Treatment of Insulin Resistance
- Treatment of Low Back Pain
- Triclosan Banned by the FDA
- Trouble Sleeping? Check Your Diet
- Two New COVID-19 Vaccines Coming Soon
- Varicose Veins Helped by Exercise
- Vegetarian Diet Helps to Control Diabetes
- Vigorous Exercise Won’t Hurt a Healthy Heart
- Vinegar to Lower Blood Sugar?
- Warnings from Impotence
- Weak Heart Muscle Associated with Weak Skeletal Muscles
- What Do Blood Cholesterol Levels Mean?
- What is the best way to treat recurrent bladder infections?
- What We Have Learned So Far from Eight Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- What You Should Know About Monkeypox
- When to Take Your Blood Pressure
- Who Gets High Blood Sugar After Meals?
- Who is Pre-Diabetic?
- Why HDL Cholesterol is “Good”
- Why I Still Recommend COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters
- Why Meat May Increase Risk for Diabetes
- Why Obesity Increases Risk of Death from COVID-19 or Influenza
- Why Women are More Likely Than Men to Develop Autoimmune Diseases
- Yeast Infections
- Yogurt or Cheese Instead of Milk Reduces Heart Attack Risk
- You Don’t Need a Lot of Exercise to Help Prevent a Heart Attack
- Your Appendix is Useful After All
- Your Liver Does Not Need to be Detoxified
- Zinc and Prostate Cancer
- Zinc Neither Prevents Nor Treats Colds
Nutrition
- A High-Fiber Diet May Help to Prevent Dementia
- Acid or Alkaline?
- Acrylamide and Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs)
- Add Fiber to Fruit Juice?
- Added Sugars: Labels Can Deceive
- Alcohol Does Not Appear to Prevent Heart Disease
- Alcohol Has No Health Benefits
- Amphetamines Found in Supplements
- Animal Products Linked to Increased Heart Attack Risk
- Another Reason Not to Take Calcium Pills
- Anti-Inflammatory and Pro-Inflammatory Foods
- Are Multivitamins a “Harmful Distraction”?
- Are Plant “Meats” More Healthful than Animal Meats?
- Are Processed Foods Making Us Fatter?
- Artificial Sweeteners
- Artificial Sweeteners Alter Gut Bacteria
- Artificial Sweeteners Are Not Benign
- Artificial Sweeteners Can Change Your Gut Bacteria
- Artificial Sweeteners Linked to Higher Blood Sugar Levels
- Artificial Sweeteners, Dementia and Strokes
- Artificial Sweeteners, Obesity and Diabetes
- Auto-Immune Diseases and Gut Bacteria
- Avocados Linked to Reduced Heart Attack Risk
- Avoid Both Low Carb and High Carb Diets
- Avoid Diets that Severely Restrict Carbohydrates or Fats
- Bacteria in Your Gut May Determine How Much You Weigh
- Be Sure Your Diet Contains Adequate Protein and Vitamin B12
- Benefits of Time-Restricted Eating
- Best Breakfast
- Best Time to Eat: Just Before or After Exercise
- Big Sugar Does It Again
- Big Sugar Paid Harvard to Say that Sugar is Healthful
- Big Sugar Uses Big Tobacco Tactics
- Blood-Type Diets Debunked
- Body Wrapping and Cold Receptors
- Both Honey and Table Sugar Raise Blood Sugar
- Butyrate Causes Significant Weight Loss in Obese Children
- Calcium and Vitamin D Pills May Not Prevent Fractures
- Calcium Pills Do Not Prevent Fractures
- Calories from Foods Vary with Preparation Method and Your Gut Bacteria
- Can Liners and Other Plastic Packaging May Not Be Safe
- Can You Eat Too Much Fruit?
- Caveman Diet, Paleo Diet, NeanderThin
- Check Those Fish Oil Pills
- Cheese and Yogurt are OK, but Milk is a High Sugar Drink
- Cheese and Yogurt May Help to Prevent Fractures
- Cheese, Yogurt or Milk?
- Chewing Raises Blood Sugar Response to Food
- Coca Cola Pays to Convince You that Sugared Drinks are Safe
- Coconut Oil is Not a Special Health Food
- Coffee Guidelines
- Concerns About Artificial Sweeteners
- Convert White Fat Cells into Fat-Burning Brown Fat Cells
- Cooking and Human Evolution
- Could the Obesity Epidemic Be Caused By an Immune Defect?
- Cutting Calories Can Lower Heart Attack Risk in Healthy-Weight People
- Dangers of Processed Foods
- Dangers of Storing Fat in Your Belly
- Desire for Junk Food is in Your Genes
- Diet Recommendations from the PURE Study
- Diet Shown to Reduce Risk for Dementia
- Dietary Changes Lecture Slides
- Dietary Recommendations Opposed by Industry
- Do Vegetarians Live Longer?
- Do You Need Vitamin D Pills?
- Do You Need Vitamin Pills?
- Does stress increase your need for vitamins?
- Don’t Count Calories
- Drink Water Instead of Sweetened Drinks
- Eat Breakfast, Especially if You Want to Lose Weight
- Eat Fish Twice a Week
- Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
- Eat More of the Good Carbs
- Eat More of the Healthful Foods
- Eat Nuts, Live Longer
- Eat Whole Foods, Not Processed Foods, to Lose Weight
- Eat WHOLE Grains, Not Flour
- Eating at Night Increases Risk for Obesity and Diabetes
- Eating Lots of Sugar May Damage Your Colon
- Eating Meat Still Associated with Heart Disease
- Egg Yolks, Cholesterol and TMAO
- Eggs Do Not Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes
- Eggs Get More Controversial Headlines
- Eggs: New Review of Studies
- Emulsifiers in Processed Foods Associated with Increased Risk for Heart Attacks
- Emulsifiers May Disrupt Gut Bacteria
- Energy Drinks
- Even Occasional Meat May Be Harmful
- Even Small Amounts of Alcohol Can Increase Risks for Cancer and Heart Attacks
- Excess Sugar Favors Growth of Harmful Gut Bacteria
- Exercise May Help to Offset Damage from Sugared Drinks
- Fatty Liver Disease Can Often Be Cured With Lifestyle Changes, Not With Drugs
- Fiber Associated with Reduced Dementia Risk
- Fiber from Grains Linked to Reduced Heart Attack Risk
- Fiber Helps to Prevent and Treat Obesity and Diabetes
- Fiber Wins Again
- Fiber, a True Superfood
- Fish Oil and Cod Liver Oil Pills Not Shown to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Fish Oil Pills May or May Not Help to Prevent Heart Attacks
- Food Industry Pushes Foods You Don’t Need
- Fried vs Unfried Potatoes
- Fructose is the Worst Sugar
- Fruits and Vegetables for Endurance
- Fruits are Healthful Despite Sugar Content
- Garcinia Cambogia: Questionable Safety of Weight Loss Supplements
- Get Calcium from Foods, Not Pills
- Get Vitamins and Nutrients from Foods, Not Pills
- Get Your Calcium from Foods
- Gluten-Free Diets Can Harm
- Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
- Good Fats in Nuts
- Grass-fed vs Corn-fed Meat
- Guide to Vegetable Oils
- Health Benefits of Eating Fermented Foods
- Healthful Fats
- Heart Attacks Again Linked to Red Meat
- Hidden Sugars
- High Blood Levels of Vitamin B12 Usually Caused by Eating Meat
- High Dose Vitamins Associated with Increased Risk for Lung Cancer
- High Doses of Water-Soluble Vitamins May Be Harmful
- High Fructose Corn Syrup plus Beekeeping/Honey information
- High Plant Diet Wins Again
- High Protein Diets Do Not Lower Blood Sugar
- High Protein Diets May Increase Heart Attack Risk
- High Salt Intake and Dehydration Can Hasten Aging
- How Eating Less May Prolong Life
- How Eating Meat Increases Risk for Heart Failure
- How Excess Salt Affects You
- How Fiber Helps to Prevent Disease
- How Gut Bacteria Affect Weight
- How Much Alcohol is Safe?
- How Much Water Do You Need?
- How Much Water Should You Drink Each Day?
- How Red Meat May Increase Risk for Cancer
- How Soluble Fiber Promotes Good Gut Bacteria
- How Sugar Can Cause Obesity and Diabetes
- How to Cook Whole Grains
- How to Live Longer and Better
- How to Pick a Breakfast Cereal
- How Your Diet Can Help to Prevent Heart Attacks and Cancers
- Ignore Grain Brain and Wheat Belly: Eat WHOLE Grains
- Impossible Burgers and Beyond Meat: Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
- Is Honey More Healthful than Sugar?
- Is It Really Whole Grain?
- Keto Diet May Lead to Diabetes
- Keto Diets Increase Risk for Fatty Liver
- Ketogenic Diets
- Latest on Eggs
- Latest Research on Pro-Inflammatory Foods
- Lectin-Containing Foods are Good For You
- Limit Fried and Browned Foods
- Little Evidence to Support Taking Probiotics
- Long Fasts May Increase Diabetes Risk
- Long Total Fasts May Be Harmful
- Low Vitamin B12 May Increase Risk for Bleeding Strokes
- Low-Carbohydrate Diets Can Harm
- Low-Fat Milk is Not More Healthful than Whole Milk
- Major Alcohol Study Cancelled for Conflict of Interest
- Meat and Colon Cancer: New Studies
- Meat IS Associated with Heart Attacks and Some Types of Cancer
- Mediterranean Diets are Safer than Keto Diets for Controlling Blood Sugar
- Mercury in Some Fish May Harm You
- Metformin (Glucophage) for Weight Loss
- Milk is Not Essential for Health
- More Controversy On Eggs
- More Fiber from Whole Foods is Better
- More Good News About Nuts and Peanuts
- More Reasons to Eat Plants
- More Research on TMAO
- Move Around Before and After You Eat
- Multi-Vitamins May Help to Slow Memory Loss of Aging
- New Data on Meat
- New Dietary Guidelines
- New Drugs May Treat Obesity
- New Research on Why Eating Meat is Associated with Heart Disease
- Nitrates: One Reason to Eat Lots of Vegetables
- No Amount of Alcohol is Healthful
- No Amount of Overweight is Healthful
- No Simple Cure for Obesity
- Nuts Associated with Reduced Risk for Diabetes and Weight Gain
- Obesity Epidemic Now Worldwide
- Older Vegetarians At Increased Risk for Muscle Loss
- Organic Foods May Not Be Worth the Extra Cost
- Overnight Fasting
- Pesticides
- Phytochemicals
- Plant Yogurts Better Than Dairy Yogurts?
- Plant-Based Diets Help to Prevent Dementia
- Prebiotics and Probiotics in Foods or Supplements
- Pro-Inflammatory Diet Linked to Increased Risk for Dementia
- Processed Foods Linked to Heart Attacks, Colon Cancer
- Processed Foods Linked to Heart Disease
- Processed Meats and Cancer Risk
- Questionable Claims for Berberine, Weight Loss Supplement
- Red Meat, Neu5Gc and Risk for Cancer
- Research on TMAO
- Restricting Calories for Just Five Days a Month May Prolong Life
- Saturated Fats May Not Be the Culprit in Meats or Milk
- Should You Avoid Gluten?
- Should You Eat Breakfast?
- Should You Take Probiotics?
- Skipping Breakfast May Harm Immune Response
- Snack on High Fiber Foods
- Snack On Nuts Fruits and Vegetables
- Sodas with Sugar May Age Cells
- Soluble and Insoluble Fiber
- Soluble Fiber Added to Processed Foods May Harm You
- Spirulina, Chlorella and Seaweed
- Stainless Steel for Exercise Water Bottles
- Stevia May Affect Gut Bacteria
- Sugar Added to Foods and Drinks Causes Inflammation
- Sugar-Added Foods Increase Diabetes Risk
- Sugared Drinks Associated with Weight Gain
- Sugared Drinks Linked to Type II Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Attacks and Some Cancers
- Sweet Potatoes vs White Potatoes
- Take Vitamin D Pills Only If You Have a Deficiency
- The Good Food Book
- The More Vegetables, The Better
- TMAO: Why Eating Meat or Eggs May Harm You
- Turmeric and Other Anti-Inflammatory Spices
- Two Clues to the Obesity Epidemic
- Types of Carbohydrates, Not Amount, Associated with Heart Disease and Diabetes
- Ultra-Processed Foods
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Risk for Obesity and Cancers
- Ultra-Processed Foods Associated with Increased Risk for Some Cancers
- Unexplained Weight Loss Can Signal Onset of Dementia
- Vegan Diet Helps Obese People Lose Weight and Reduce Risk for Type II Diabetes
- Vegetables – Except Potatoes – Reduce Risk for Diabetes
- Vitamin and Mineral Pills Cannot Protect You from an Unhealthful Diet
- Vitamin B12: One Supplement You May Need
- Vitamin D Recommendations
- Vitamin D Research
- Weight Gain with Sugar Plus Meat
- Weight Loss
- Weight Loss with Intermittent Fasting
- What Makes a Healthful Recipe?
- What the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
- What You Eat, Not Your Genes, Determines Your Microbiome
- When Does Your Metabolism Slow Down?
- Which Vegetable Oils Are Best?
- WHO Warnings on Artificial Sweeteners
- Whole (Unrefined) Grains Are Healthful
- WHOLE Grains are Better than Any Flour
- Whole Milk or Skim? Cheese and Yogurt are Better
- Why a High Protein Diet May Increase Risk for Heart Attacks
- Why Calorie Counting Doesn’t Work
- Why Excess Weight Kills
- Why I No Longer Follow a Vegan Diet
- Why I STILL Restrict Meat, Eggs and Milk
- Why Intermittent Fasting Works
- Why Nuts Won’t Make You Fat
- Why Sugar-Sweetened Drinks are Harmful
- Why We Use Intermittent Fasting
- Why Whole Grains are Healthful
- Why You Feel Sleepy After Eating
- Will Gluten-Free Make You Feel Better?
- You Can Get Enough Protein Without Eating Meat
- You Need Both a Healthful Diet and a Regular Exercise Program
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