Monthly Archives: December 2011

Aortic aneurysm prevention: Jeff Green and his aorta

December 27, 2011 – 8:00 am

Last week the Boston Celtics announced that forward Jeff Green will miss the 2012 season due to an aortic aneurysm, set to be operated on next month. Jeff is lucky. An estimated million other Americans have aortic aneurysms, but most don’t know it, and their first symptom may be their last. In yesterday’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day,…

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Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#14)

December 25, 2011 – 8:00 am

This is another sampling of the more than 750 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org. And remember, there’s a new video posted every weekday, so to make sure…

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Generic Lipitor is not the answer to our heart disease epidemic

December 23, 2011 – 8:00 am

The cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor (atorvastatin) is the best-selling drug on the planet. Nearly a million Americans filled their prescriptions the first week after it went generic this month. Over the past 25 years, this one drug raked in $100 billion in sales. Although as a class, the statin drugs are remarkably safe, there is concerning…

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Latest in Nutrition vol. 7 DVD now available (proceeds to charity)

December 19, 2011 – 10:00 am

The current batch of videos from volume 6 are set to run out before Christmas, and so starting December 26, and running through March here on NutritionFacts.org, I’ll be rolling out the videos off my new Latest in Nutrition DVD, volume 7. Now that all my videos are posted free online, I wasn’t sure there…

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Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#13)

December 18, 2011 – 8:00 am

This is another sampling of the more than 750 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org. And remember, there’s a new video posted every weekday, so to make sure…

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Vitamin D: Shedding some light on the new recommendations

December 15, 2011 – 8:00 am

Earlier this year, the U.S. Institute of Medicine upped their official vitamin D recommendation for most adults from 200 to 600 IU a day. Where did they get the original number, why did they triple it, and why are there those who recommend people take thousands a day rather than hundreds? Though the IOM report…

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Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#12)

December 10, 2011 – 8:00 am

This is another sampling of the more than 700 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org. And remember, there’s a new video posted every weekday, so to make sure…

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Beans and Gas: Clearing the air

December 5, 2011 – 8:00 am

More than a decade ago, the Quarterly Journal of Medicine published a review entitled: “Vegetarian Diet: Panacea for modern lifestyle disease?” The answer was in the affirmative, noting those eating vegetarian appear to have less obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, cancers, kidney disease, maybe less stroke, less age-related vision loss, less…

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Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#11)

December 2, 2011 – 10:45 pm

This is another sampling of the more than 700 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org. And remember, there’s a new video posted every weekday, so to make sure…

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