Category: Health
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Simple LDL Measurements Are Meaningless
Recent research shows that different types of LDL pose different risks. I hadn’t know previously that LDL was classified by “small” and “large” particles. However, lots of articles that have been published through the Weston A. Price Foundation journal Wise Traditions have long claimed there is no correlation between high LDL and heart attack risk. There…
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Programming Standing Up
After listening to a Science Friday report on the correlation between TV time and mortality, I’ve decided to stop sitting at my desk. I’ve propped up my keyboard and monitors with boxes. I’ve done it for a week now. My calves and shins are tired, but my legs don’t get fidgety, or fall asleep or…
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Low Carb Diet
I just got sucked into a Wikipedia article on low carb diets. It’s very interesting to note that from a anthropologic point of view, and an evolutionary point of view, that humans have not been raising grain for a long enough timespan in order to effect evolution. So the logic that (normal, not excessive) ketosis…
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UCTV Lecture on Sugar
Rosalind attends local Weston Price Foundation meetings. This weekend she came back bubbling about how this video they watched supported a lot of ideas that Sally Fallon writes about. Sugar: The Bitter Truth runs over an hour long, it’s a lecture. Consider these points: Fructose is metabolized more like alcohol, and has to be converted…
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