Please Pass the Pistachios

Monday, December 29, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

In a study that rocks the wobbly foundation of the low fat diet for heart health paradigm (which is of course a major fraud), LDL cholesterol was lowered by 8% when participants ate 20% of their calories per day from pistachios (34% fat diet).

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Cold Weather Mood Shock: Avoid the Winter Blues

Monday, December 29, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

The combination of a lack of sun and cold weather invariably strains your mood as well as your metabolism. It is an energy-depleting form of stress, similar to having a daily argument with someone. If your energy systems…

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Overcoming the Holiday Sludge

Monday, December 29, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

As the holiday festivities wind down what is typically left over is a physical feeling of sludge.  Extra holiday consumption of food, sugar, and alcohol can leave you feeling energetically off and headed in the direction of significant winter weight gain, compromised immunity, and the mental doldrums…

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What Are Your Baby Fat Cells Doing?

Monday, December 29, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Until recently nobody knew exactly where your baby fat cells lived.  In a new study clever scientists engineered mice so that baby fat cells would glow green, allowing them to pinpoint their exact location and to follow their development.

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Adequate Oxygenation Vital to Healthy Metabolism

Monday, December 29, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

New research is uncovering how hemoglobin behaves within a cell to deliver oxygen to the cell engines so that calories can be burned as fuel.  Oxygen must be present within cells in order for metabolism to work at an optimal rate.  Thyroid hormone is short-circuited at the cellular level if oxygen is not present.

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Coordination, Thyroid, and Obesity

Friday, August 22, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Early impairment of nerve-related function is a clear risk for developing later-life obesity, so concludes new research published in the British Journal of Medicine.

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Thyroid and Cholesterol

Thursday, August 21, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

It is well established in the scientific literature that sub clinical hypothyroid as well as frank hypothyroid are associated with increased levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and lipoprotein(a). 

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Sluggish Thyroid Increases Blood Pressure

Wednesday, August 20, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

The impact of thyroid function on arterial stiffness and consequent elevation in blood pressure is a new finding helping to explain yet another adverse consequence of poor thyroid function on cardiovascular health.  Researchers showed that correcting sluggish thyroid function (subclinical hypothyroid) enabled a return of better blood pressure function.

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Sluggish Thyroid Disturbs Heart Function

Tuesday, August 19, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Several studies now point out that sluggish thyroid function (sub clinical hypothyroid) is associated with early adverse changes in the electrical function of the heart.

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Sluggish Thyroid in Women Increases Heart Disease

Tuesday, August 19, 2008  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Women who have sluggish thyroid function, meaning that they are not hypothyroid by lab test but have many of the symptoms of poorly functioning thyroid and their thyroid scores are close to lower limits of “normal,” have 57% increased risk for developing heart disease.  This relationship does not exist after age 65, which is also an interesting point.

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