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Baby your pancreas by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health There it is, sitting quietly tucked under your diaphragm, nestled beneath layers of stomach and intestines, doing its job of monitoring blood sugar, producing insulin, and ... Read on »

Bread equals sugar by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Bread, gluten-free or gluten-containing, in terms of carbohydrate content, is equivalent to sugar. Two slices of store-bought whole grain bread, such as the gluten-fre ... Read on »

Gluten-free carbohydrate mania by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Here’s a typical gluten-free product, a whole grain bread mix. “Whole grain,” of course, suggests high-fiber, high nutrient composition, and health. ... Read on »

Gluten-free is going DOWN by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health The majority of gluten-free foods are junk foods. People with celiac disease experience intestinal destruction and a multitude of other inflammatory conditions due to ... Read on »

Normal cholesterol panel . . . no heart disease? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I often hear this comment: “I have a normal cholesterol panel. So I have low risk for heart disease, right?” While there’s a germ of truth in the statement, there are ... Read on »

Idiot farm by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health The notion of genetic modification of foods and livestock is a contentious issue. The purposeful insertion or deletion of a gene into a plant or animal’s genome to yield s ... Read on »

Eat triglycerides by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Dietary fats, from olive oil to cocoa butter to beef tallow, are made of triglycerides. Triglycerides are simply three (“tri-”) fatty acids attached to a glycerol ba ... Read on »

You’ve come a long way, baby by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health In 1945, the room-sized ENIAC vacuum tube computer was first turned on, women began to smoke openly in public, and a US postal stamp cost three cents. And this was the US ... Read on »

Fasting with green tea by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I’ve been playing around with brief (18-24 hour) fasts with the use of green tea. Of the several variations on fasting, such as juice “fasts,” I’ve been most impressed wi ... Read on »

Dreamfields pasta is wheat by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health An active question on the blogosphere and elsewhere is whether Dreamfields pasta is truly low-carb. Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt of Diet Doctor detailed his high blood glucose ex ... Read on »

Bet you can’t fast by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health People who continue to consume the world’s most destructive grain, i.e., wheat, can rarely endure fasting–not eating for an extended period–except by mustering up monument ... Read on »

Total cholesterol 220 by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Talking about total cholesterol is like wearing a tie-dyed t-shirt with the peace sign emblazoned on the front: So totally 60s and out of date. But talk of total chole ... Read on »

Scientists are freakin’ liars by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health So says Tom Naughton, referring to the frequent misinterpretations or misrepresentations of data that characterize much medical research. Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt posted Tom N ... Read on »

Tell me your wheat elimination story and receive a copy of my new book, Wheat Belly by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I’m looking for interesting wheat-free experiences. For the past year, I have been writing my new book, Wheat Belly . After many, many late nights and soccer games mis ... Read on »

Real men don't eat carbs by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Real men don't eat carbs. At least they don't eat them without eventually paying the price. How do carbohydrates, especially those contained in "healthy whole grains," ... Read on »

Why do the Japanese have less heart disease? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health We should look to the Japanese to teach us a few lessons about preventing heart disease. A Japanese male has only 65% of the risk of an American male (despite 40% of Japanes ... Read on »

Niacin: What forms are safe? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Niacin, or vitamin B3, remains a confusing issue for many people. It shouldn't be. It doesn't help that most physicians and many pharmacists also do not understand the ... Read on »

What are "normal" triglycerides? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Among the most neglected yet enormously helpful values on any standard cholesterol panel is the triglyceride value. Triglycerides traverse the bloodstream by hitching ... Read on »

1985: The Year of Whole Grains by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health In 1985, the National Cholesterol Education Panel delivered its Adult Treatment Panel guidelines to Americans, advice to cut cholesterol intake, reduce saturated fat, and in ... Read on »

Have some more by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Wheat, via exorphin effects, is an appetite stimulant. Eat a whole wheat bagel or bran muffin, you want another. You also want more of other foods. You also want something t ... Read on »

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