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Falling Leaves Means Falling Vitamin D

By Dr. James Dowd

When the leaves change colors the availability of ultraviolet light to make vitamin D (UVB) disappears till next spring. Your vitamin D level then begins to fall along with all the leaves on the deciduous trees. Ten weeks after peak fall colors your vitamin D level is about half what it was at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: James E Dowd, Nutrition, Recipes, UVB, Vitamin D Tagged With: Depression, Flu, Infection, Influenza, Obesity, Prevention, weight loss, Winter Blues, Winter Solstice, Winter Vacation

Happy Valentines Day!

By Dr. James Dowd

The Vitamin D Cure

Do something sexy for your special someone. Give them vitamin D. It will boost their mood, memory, muscle strength, and immune system while reducing their risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and death from all causes. Recipe of the Month Milanese-Style … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diet, James E Dowd, Nutrition, Recipes, The Vitamin D Cure, Vitamin D Tagged With: All Cause Mortality, Arugula, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Chicken, Death, Depression, Fitness Magazine, Immune System, muscle strength, Obesity, Prevention, Salad, Sexy, Valentines Day

Your Health is in the D-Tales

By Dr. James Dowd

The month of January should see some upgrades to the website allowing me to keep the information current. We have decided to streamline the information by consolidating the newsletter and the blog. The enhanced blog will now have a recipe of the month, vitamin D and health news, and commentary split … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Recipes, Vitamin D Tagged With: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Mediterranean Diet, New Year, Obesity, Prevention, Protein, weight loss

Diet and the “Anthropologic Rule of Thumb”

By Dr. James Dowd

Dietary recommendations seem to change year after year. The food industry sends us an endless stream of choices and provides reasons for why we should choose their products. They even invent new food categories and meal times. In an effort to simplify decision making and ignore the noise, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamin D Tagged With: Atkin's Diet, Beef, Cancer, Carbohydrates, Cardiovascular, Colon Cancer, Corn, Diabetes, Diet, Fat, Insulin, Mediterranean Diet, Obesity, Prevention, Protein, Vegetarian Diet, weight loss

Sudden Cardiac Death

By Dr. James Dowd

Last week saw the publication of another study associating heart attacks with very low vitamin D levels this time in men. Dr. Giovannucci analyzed the Health Professions Cohort followed at Harvard University and found that men with vitamin D levels below 15 ng/mL had twice as many heart attacks as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Sun, Vitamin D Tagged With: Coronary Heart Disease, Free Range, Meet The Press, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Rhythm Disturbances, Sudden Death, Tim Russert, Ventricular Tachycardia

Revisiting Insulin

By Dr. James Dowd

Two very important diabetes research studies were published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week, the ACCORD and ADVANCE studies. See this editorial reviewing this research or download both studies to read the complete articles. The message is clear. Higher insulin levels lead to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamin D Tagged With: Accord, Advance, Barker Theory, Beef, Carbohydrates, Corn, Diabetes, Fat, Insulin, New England Journal of Medicine, Obesity, Protein, weight loss, Yellowstone

Insulation from Insulin

By Dr. James Dowd

Insulin is a member of the growth hormone family. Its primary purpose is to take up glucose, protein, and fat. Without insulin your glucose levels go up and we call this diabetes. However, the strongest stimulus for the release of insulin is NOT SUGAR or carbohydrates. PROTEIN is the most potent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition Tagged With: Beef, Carbohydrates, Corn, Fat, Insulin, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Protein, weight loss

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