Low testosterone levels hinder your health. Posted by Mike Furci (03/26/2011 @ 9:44 am)  low testosterone levels put men at risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and early death?? One study shows that testosterone treatment reduces LDL cholesterol and increases HDL cholesterol.? Another study that looked at the cause of death in almost 2000 men aged 20 to 79 years.? The men with low testosterone at the start of the study had a 2.5 times greater risk of dying during the next ten years compared with men with higher testosterone levels.? These studies, and more, will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s annual meeting, in San Francisco, suggest that testosterone therapy has several positive effects. (Vitacost.com Daily Health Tip; June, 2008)
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6 Natural strategies for protecting your vision Posted by Mike Furci (11/30/2010 @ 2:14 pm) Despite what your eye doctor may say, there are natural, common-sense strategies you can employ to help protect your healthy vision. 1. Quit smoking, if you currently do. Smoking ramps up free radical production throughout your body, and puts you at risk for less-than-optimal health in many ways. If you want healthy vision for your whole life, you cannot afford to risk less-than-optimal eye health with cigarettes. 2. Lose weight. If your over weight you’re going to have all the negative effects associated with being over weight or obese like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which can harm your eyes. 3. Care for your cardiovascular system. High blood pressure can cause damage to the minuscule blood vessels on your retina, obstructing free blood flow. 4. Normalize your blood sugar. Excessive sugar in your blood can pull fluid from the lens of your eye, affecting your ability to focus. And, it can damage the blood vessels in your retina, also obstructing blood flow. 5. Eat plenty of fresh dark green leafy vegetables. Studies have shown that a diet rich in dark leafy greens helps support eye health. And that those with the highest consumption of carotenoid-rich vegetables, especially ones rich in lutein and zeaxanthin, had increased vision health. 6. Consume omega-3 rich foods. Consume fresh caught salmon, or use a reputable omega – 3 supplement. A study published in the August 2001 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology found that consuming omega-3 fatty acids was protective of your healthy vision. Mercola.com Posted in: Anti-Aging, Heart disease, Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness, Nutrition, Obesity, Xternal Fitness, Xternal Furci Tags: American Diabetes Association, Cardiovascular Disease, cardiovascular disease facts, cardiovascular disease risks, causes of obesity, Diabetes, Dr Mercola, eye sight, eye sight surgery, Headlines, improving your vision naturally, mercola.com, naturally improving your eye sight, Obesity, Obesity and cardiovascular disease, Obesity epidemic, periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease, saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, www.mercola.com
Veggies vs animals Posted by Mike Furci (08/20/2010 @ 9:46 am) A study published in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease, 28 February, 2009, found vitamin K consumption to strongly reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. This finding surfaced with an analysis of a cohort study, Prospect-EPIC, consisting of 16,057 women aged between 49 and 70, none of whom had cardiovascular disease at the start of the study. To the surprise of many, those who got their vitamin K from plant forms by eating lots of leafy vegetables did not fare better than the normal population. However, those women who got their vitamin K from animal sources like whole eggs, cheese, goose liver, and animal fats had substantially reduced incidence of cardiovascular disease. Enig, Mary., and Sally Fallon. ?Caustic commentary? Wise Traditions, 2009;(10)2:11 Unfortunately, the researchers are calling for vitamin K2 supplementation not a healthy diet consisting of animal products, which would yield a whole host of other health benefits. Posted in: Anti-Aging, Diets, Foods products, Heart disease, Medical Issues for Men, Nutrition, Vitamins/Minerals, Xternal Fitness, Xternal Furci Tags: Cardiovascular Disease, cardiovascular disease facts, cardiovascular disease risks, causes of cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, facts about heart disease, foods containing vitamin k, foods high in vitamin k, foods that fight heart disease, Headlines, Heart disease, heart disease information, heart disease prevention, heart disease risk factor, how to prevent heart disease, Obesity and cardiovascular disease, prevent heart disease, saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, symtoms of heart disease, types of heart disease, vitamin k, vitamin k food list, vitamin k foods, what causes heart disease
Cholesterol no longer a risk factor for heart disease. Look to CRP? Posted by Mike Furci (04/29/2010 @ 12:35 pm) Dr. James Stein, MD from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, praised the JUPITER study for exposing the fact that current therapeutic LDL-cholesterol levels are not only arbitrary, but are in fact a poor indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. ?Most patients with heart attacks have normal cholesterol values,? he stated. With the cholesterol theory crumbling the industry is under intense pressure to come up with a new risk factor, and one that can be treated with the same statin drugs they have invested so much money in. Enter Dr. Ridker and C-reactive protein (CRP). Ridker has been pushing treating CRP with statins for years. But is CRP a risk factor? A National Panel on CRP found no evidence treating CRP levels will improve survival rates (www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/News/story.cfm?id=182). Elevated CRP levels are associated with many things including; anger, stress, arthritis, cancer, lupus, pneumonia, TB, oral contraceptive use, pregnancy, heart attacks, surgery, trauma, intense exercise, etc. It?s a marker for disease, not the cause. But since statins lower CRP levels slightly, you can count on CRP becoming the new cholesterol. The public will be made to fear CRP, be tested for it, and be put on dangerous statins to lower it. What a racket.
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Saturated fat is no villian. Posted by Mike Furci (03/13/2010 @ 11:03 pm) Saturated fat found mainly in animal products has been vilified by physicians, the media, and the edible oil industry for over 60 years, despite mounds of evidence to the contrary. A meta-analysis of 21 prospective epidemiologic studies that had a total of 347,747 participants, showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke.
Saturated fats have been nourishing societies around the world for thousands of years. If animal fats (saturated fats) are so dangerous, and vegetable oils (polyunsaturated fat) are so healthy, why are we so unhealthy as a nation? The scientific data of the past and present does not support the assertion that saturated fats cause heart disease. As a matter of fact, people who have had a heart attack haven?t eaten any more saturated fat than other people, and the degree of atherosclerosis at autopsy is unrelated to diet.Ravnskov, Uffe. ?The cholesterol Myths: Myth number 4? Posted in: Anti-Aging, Cholesterol, Cholesterol levels, Diets, Heart disease, Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness, Nutrition, Xternal Fitness, Xternal Furci Tags: animal fat and cholesterol, Cardiovascular Disease, cardiovascular disease facts, cardiovascular disease types, causes of cardiovascular disease, Cholesterol, Cholesterol Levels, coronary heart disease, facts about heart disease, foods that fight heart disease, Headlines, Heart disease, heart disease risk factor, LDL cholesterol, Lipid hypothesis, Lowering Cholesterol, polyunsaturated fat side effects, polyunsaturated fats, Polyunsturated fats, saturated, Saturated fat, saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, saturated fat and cholesterol, Saturated fat consumption, symtoms of heart disease, the lipid hypothesis, treating high cholesterol, what is cardiovascular disease, what is polyunsaturated fats
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