The “Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure” offers the following guidelines: “(1) In persons older than 50 years, systolic blood pressure greater than 140 mmHg is a much more important cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor than diastolic blood pressure. (2) The risk of CVD…
[JEV News, December 2, 2011] During the last few years, more studies cite the benefits of Vitamin D and its deficiency in those people who do not expose themselves to sunlight for producing Vitamin D physiologically. Some of the studies produce new findings that many tissues and organs are equipped with Vitamin D receptors to…
In medical studies on the association between the strength of a factor (variable) or factors and the outcomes of the disease, they may find a range of optimum only at the elbow of a J curve, while confirming a positive relationship in its long arm, and at the same time, observing an inverse relationship in…
traduit par Charles A. Fortin Je suis Robert Su, médecin. Je vous salue à nouveau sur ma baladodiffusion spécialement pour vous. Lors de ma dernière discussion à propos de la restriction des glucides, je vous ai conseillé d’éviter ou du moins de restreindre les aliments riches en glucides, de façon à vous empêcher de prendre du poids…
Sex had been a taboo topic until the middle of 1900’s, when Dr. Alfred Kingsey [1] published his research in human sexuality. Since that, thanks to the growing social liberalism and individualism, sex has become an open subject. Aside the moral issue, sex life is undeniably one of few important factors, which may change the…
Robert Su, Pharm.B., M.D. Principal Physician, Virginia Pain Clinic Author, Carbohydrates Can Kill Host, The Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show. Discussion: Statistics show that the prevalence of kidney stones (nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis) has increased for the last 30 years. Of the US population, the number of Americans with kidney stones increased from less than 4%…
I am Robert Su, M.D. Welcome back to my special podcast program for you. In my last discussion with you about carbohydrate restriction, I told you to avoid eating carbohydrate foods, or, at least, to not eat very much of them for preventing you from gaining weight and becoming diabetic. During the discussion, I also…
[JEV News, November 11, 2011] On November 7, 2011, I published an interim report on the risk of kidney stone (nephrolithiasis) with carbohydrate restriction. The data of this report were collected from those, 22 in total, who voluntarily participated in this survey with their individual information and whose identities were sealed. I wholeheartedly thank them…
Robert Su, Pharm.B., M.D. Principal Physician, Virginia Pain Clinic Author, Carbohydrates Can Kill Host, The Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show Featured Speaker: The Non-English Language Content for Carbohydrates Can Kill Purpose: Since the end of 1700’s, carbohydrate-restricted diet has been reportedly used for treating diabetes mellitus and morbid obesity. Several studies cite the metabolic…
On November 2, 2011, I interviewed with Dr. Uffe Ravnvskov, on the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast show. Dr. Ravnvskov is an internist/nephrologists who has done lots of research in the roles of cholesterol in our health. He shared with us the reasons why treating cholesterol is unnecessary and harmful. As explained in the article, “Coronary…