DISCLAIMER – This blog post was written before drinking my morning cup of coffee! Some thoughts may be blurry! SECOND DISCLAIMER – the “grind the data” phrase was from an article in JACC Electrophsysiology – I wish I had come up with it on my own! This is as far as I got with latte…
Category: nutrition
not a good week for alcohol enthusiasts!!
This has not been a good week for “moderate” alcohol drinkers. There has been a barrage of articles which make me re-think what “moderate” alcohol intake is. Just 2 days ago I wrote this blog. Look at this BBC article. This was a half a million patient prospective Chinese study that indicated that if a…
alcohol = cigarettes??
How many cigarettes are there in a bottle of alcohol? A recent study showed that drinking equivalent of 1 bottle of wine per week (4 drinks) increased risk of cancer in women and in men. The overall absolute increase in cancer risk for one bottle of wine per week equals that of five (men) or…
sugar, the bitter truth
This is an interesting talk by Dr. Robert Lustig, endocrinologist at UCSF If you don’t want to sit through a 90 minute video, here is a condensed 30 minute version: