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Farmed Tilapia and Catfish are More Like Chicken than Fish by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Fish are heart-healthy foods because they usually have high levels of omega-3 fatty acids and low levels of omega-6's.. However, researchers at Wake Forest University School o ... Read on »

Nuts Combat Metabolic Syndrome (Syndrome X) by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Nuts are concentrated sources of fat and calories, but they are high in monounsaturated fats which are healthful. A new study from Spain shows that adding nuts to a Mediterran ... Read on »

Understanding Delayed Muscle Soreness by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise If you exercise properly, you are supposed to work hard enough to damage your muscles so they feel sore on the next day. This is called delayed-onset muscle soreness. You shou ... Read on »

Cold weather may increase risk for various health problems by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Nobody really knows why, but recent research show that sudden drops in environmental temperature are associated with increased risk for disease and death ( American Journal of ... Read on »

Exercisers Age Better by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Athletes who compete into their eighties suffer few medical problems, but those who lapse into inactivity regress toward the general population norms for fitness, weight contr ... Read on »

Eggs Increase Risk for Diabetes? by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Research from Harvard Medical School suggests that eating an egg a day may increase a person’s risk for developing diabetes ( Diabetes Care, December 2008). This is the ... Read on »

Eating Before Exercise OK for Most People by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Many people believe that exercising right after you eat will cause stomach cramps, but that doesn't usually happen. Whenever your stomach fills with food, its muscles contract ... Read on »

Lifting Weights Does Not Hamper Children's Growth by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Lifting weights before puberty growth does not prevent children from growing to their full potential height. Bones grow from growth centers that are weakest part of bone, but ... Read on »

Reduce Belly Fat with Intense Exercise by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Researchers at the University of Virginia show that intense exercise is far more effective in reducing belly fat than less intense exercise ( Medicine & Science in Sports ... Read on »

Why Migraines May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Few migraine sufferers can see any bright side to their pain, but now we have one study showing that a history of migraines is associated with a lower risk for breast cancer. ... Read on »

Inflammation: More Important than Cholesterol by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise At the American Heart Association conference in New Orleans, researchers from the Jupiter study reported that statin drugs caused people with normal cholesterol but with high ... Read on »

Still Eating Red Meat? You May Want to Reconsider by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Several years ago, Professor Ajit Varki of the University of California, San Diego discovered a molecule called Neu5Gc that appears in the tissues of every mammal except human ... Read on »

Side Stitches by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Side stitches are caused by a stretching of the ligaments that run downward from the diaphragm to hold up the liver. You breathe once for each two strides. You breathe out whe ... Read on »

Reduce Oxidants to Lower Heart Attack Risk by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise A study from the University of Dundee in Scotland shows that neither antioxidants nor aspirin pills prevent heart attacks in diabetics ( British Medical Journal, October 2008) ... Read on »

Exercise-Induced Asthma by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise We have known for more than 25 years that exercise-induced asthma is caused by breathing dry, cold air, but for the first time we may know why this happens. Researchers at the ... Read on »

Eat More Fish and Less Vegetable Oil by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise The Japanese have the lowest incidence of heart attack in the world, yet they have the same rates of high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, and they smoke as much ... Read on »

Overweight is not Destiny by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Nobody has to be fat, but some people may have to exercise for many hours just to control their weight. For example, a gene associated with fatness has been identified in the ... Read on »

Check Vitamin D Levels this Winter by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise In this newsletter I have reported that low vitamin D levels are associated with increased risk for heart attacks, strokes, at least 17 different cancers, diabetes, autoimmune ... Read on »

Stretching Pros and Cons by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia reviewed the world's literature and concluded that stretching does not prevent muscle soreness that follows vigorous exerc ... Read on »

Broken Knee Cartilage is Forever by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise A team of researchers at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario have shown that arthroscopic removal of loose cartilage and trimming of knee cartilage is no bett ... Read on »

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