Upset Stomach: Viral Infection or Food Poisoning?

Posted on July 10, 2016 | Comments Off on Upset Stomach: Viral Infection or Food Poisoning?

Both manifest as nausea, vomiting, and perhaps abdominal cramps.

Treatments for the two are similar. Food poisoning usually is over wishing 24 hours; viral infections last longer. Click the link below for many helpful details.

“While symptoms of a stomach virus can take days to develop, food poisoning symptoms can occur within 6 hours of eating. People may experience diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and cramps, or a fever. Sickness from food poisoning can last from a few hours to several days, but most cases clear up within a day.People can usually suspect food poisoning if others who consumed the same food are also ill, or they ate unrefrigerated food. Salads, raw or undercooked poultry, eggs, seafood, and other dairy-based products are high-risk foods for food poisoning.”

Source: Stomach Virus or Food Poisoning? Learn the Signs and Symptoms – Medical News Today

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Sleep duration and health outcomes in children and adolescents

Posted on July 5, 2016 | Comments Off on Sleep duration and health outcomes in children and adolescents
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Probably needs 8 hours a night, if not more. And why is the light on?!

One of my children just finished high school and the other graduated two years ago. I thought both of them were terribly sleep-deprived by their school obligations.

A quote from Obesity Panacea blog:

“Sleep is an essential component of healthy development and is needed for mental and physical health. However, sleep deprivation has become common in modern societies with 24/7 availabilities of commodities and technologies. School-aged children and adolescents generally sleep less now compared with decades ago, with the greatest rate of decline in sleep occurring for adolescents and on school days. Factors responsible for this decline in sleep duration are numerous and include late-night screen time, caffeine use, extracurricular activities, artificial light, and no bedtime rules in the household. It is increasingly accepted that sleep should be taken more seriously by the public health community, i.e. given as much attention and resources as nutrition and physical activity.”

Source: Sleep duration and health outcomes in children and adolescents | Obesity Panacea

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Óscar Picazo Compiled a List of Scientific Articles on the Paleolithic Diet

Posted on July 2, 2016 | Comments Off on Óscar Picazo Compiled a List of Scientific Articles on the Paleolithic Diet
Not Oscar Picazo

Not Oscar Picazo

Click the link below to see the articles, which are in English. Óscar’s introduction:

“Hace ya más de un año, compartí aquí la lista actualizada de estudios hasta la fecha, en relación a la paleodieta, dieta evolutiva, o como se le quiera llamar.El último año ha sido bastante activo en este sentido, con varios trabajos publicados, varios ensayos clínicos, y un meta-análisis.A continuación la lista actualizada. Si falta alguno, por favor indícamelo y lo incluyo.Y solo por recordarlo… mi opinión sobre el tema.”

Source: Paleodieta: Bibliografía actualizada | Óscar Picazo

Thanks, Oscar!

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Paleolithic and Mediterranean Diets Linked to Lower Incidence of Colon Polyps

Posted on July 2, 2016 | Comments Off on Paleolithic and Mediterranean Diets Linked to Lower Incidence of Colon Polyps

Adenomas in the colon (aka colon polyps) are precursors to colon cancer. Experts think that if we can prevent the onset of colon polyps, we’ll see less colon cancer. A recent study suggests that both a Paleo-type diet and Mediterranean-style diet reduce risk of colon polyps. A sample:

“Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second-leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States. Rapidly increasing incidence rates in previously low-incidence populations in urban China and Japan and among male Polynesians in Hawaii have coincided with the adoption of a more westernized lifestyle by those populations. These changing incidence rates, along with studies of immigrant populations, point to a strong influence of diet and other lifestyle factors on CRC risk.”

Source: Paleolithic and Mediterranean Diet Pattern Scores and Risk of Incident, Sporadic Colorectal Adenomas

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Are Beets Good for Diabetes?

Posted on July 2, 2016 | 5 comments

From Medical News Today:

A number of studies suggest that beets may be beneficial for people with diabetes. This article takes a closer look at their nutritional properties.

Source: Are Beets Good for Diabetes?

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Almost Half of California Adults Have Prediabetes

Posted on July 1, 2016 | Comments Off on Almost Half of California Adults Have Prediabetes

The actual figure is 46%, according to researchers at UCLA. The LA Times has the story.

“Our genes and our environment are kind of on a collision course,” said Dr. Francine Kaufman, the former head of the American Diabetes Assn., who was not involved with the research. “It’s not stopping.”

The problem with prediabetes is that it often evolves into full-blown diabetes. It’s also associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease such as heart attack and stroke. The Times article says “up to 70% of those with prediabetes develop diabetes in their lifetime.” I’d never heard that vague number before; I say vague because “up to 70%” could be anything between zero and 70. It’s more accurate to note that one in four people with prediabetes develops type 2 diabetes over the course of three to five years.

She has the genes of a cave woman

She has the genes of a cave woman

Prediabetes is defined as:

  1. fasting blood sugar between 100 and 125 mg/dl (5.56–6.94 mmol/l), or
  2. blood sugar level 140–199 mg/dl (7.78–11.06 mmol/l) two hours after drinking 75 grams of glucose

How To Prevent Progression of Prediabetes Into Diabetes

  • If you’re overweight or obese, lose excess fat weight. How much should you lose? Aim for at least 5% of body weight and see if that cures your prediabetes. For instance, if you weigh 200 lb (91 kg), lose 10 lb (4.5 kg).
  • If you’re sedentary, start exercising regularly.
  • Cut back on your consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, other sugar sources, and other refined carbohydrates like wheat flour.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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Dr. Eades Attempts to Explain the U.S. Obesity Epidemic

Posted on June 22, 2016 | 2 comments

Dr. Michael Eades of Protein Power fame thinks he knows why we’ve gotten fat starting 35 years ago:

Along with carbohydrates, vegetable oils have increased dramatically in the typical American diet. Over the same time period, we’ve all started eating away from home more and more, so that we’ve lost control of exactly what kinds of fats we’ve been eating.

Click the link for the details of his hypothesis, which involves the effects of various dietary fats and carbohydrates on intracellular energy metabolism and insulin resistance.

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: Even if you think proteins are powerless, my books are made without vegetable oils.

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Seafood May Lower Your Risk of Dementia

Posted on June 11, 2016 | Comments Off on Seafood May Lower Your Risk of Dementia

…according to an article at the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study involved Chicago-area residents who had provided information about their eating habits. After death, their brains were biopsied, looking for typical pathological findings of Alzheimers Disease.

fresh salmon and lobsters

Rich sources of omega-3 fatty acids include salmon, sardines, herring, trout, and mackerel

Participants who ate seafood at least once a week had fewer Alzheimers lesions in their brains, but only if they were carriers of a particular gene the predisposes to Alzheimers. The gene is called apolipoprotein E or APOE ε4.

You’ve heard that seafood may be contaminated with mercury, right? The seafood eaters in this study indeed had higher brain levels of mercury, but it didn’t cause any visible brain damage.

The Mediterranean diet, relatively rich in seafood, has long been linked to a lower risk of dementia.

A weakness of the study is that the researchers didn’t report results of clinical testing for dementia in these participants before they died. You can have microscopic evidence of Alzheimers disease on a biopsy, yet no clinical diagnosis of dementia.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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Turkish Get-Ups: What, Why, How

Posted on June 1, 2016 | Comments Off on Turkish Get-Ups: What, Why, How

I’m going to start doing Turkish get-ups again. I fell out of the habit a couple years ago. Turkish get-ups promote flexibility, balance, joint range of motion, and strength. If you’re just doing the Big Five exercises, TGUs will strengthen some of the smaller muscles (and portions of major muscles) you may be neglecting.

Below are a couple YouTube examples. They are not complete tutorials. You can use a dumbbell or kettlebell. Start with either no weight in your hand, or just a small one. Then work up to higher weights as you get stronger.

These videos may only show how to work one side of the body; you work both sides, of course, and call it a pair. I used to do only five pairs with a 25-lb dumbbell. In weightlifting lingo, you’d call that 1 set of five reps (repetitions). It was exhausting.

Do enough reps and it will be both strength and aerobic training.

Steve Parker, M.D.


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QOTD: Too Busy to Exercise?

Posted on May 26, 2016 | Comments Off on QOTD: Too Busy to Exercise?

What fits your busy schedule better, exercising 30 minutes a day or being dead 24 hours a day?

—Randy Glasbergen in a 2008 cartoon

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