Welcome back to the Carbohydrates Can Kill Show on Alzheimer’s Disease and Carbohydrates. I am Robert Su, M.D. Let’s continue the discussion about history of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease or AD is another of the most common types of dementia among older people nowadays. According to history, during the ancient time, dementia was linked to old…
[JEV News, January 20, 2012] The premier episode of the special Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast series on Alzheimer’s disease and carbohydrates was aired on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. This episode is intended for helping its listeners have a grasp of the terrible disease —- dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. It is a summary of many study…
[JEV News, January 13, 2012] On January 9, 2012, heartwire, an online magazine, published a not-so-surprising article, “Statin use associated with significantly increased risk of diabetes: WHI analysis.” I have long suspected that many studies with contradiction to this finding are flawed and might be the work of ghostwriting. If you are familiar with the…
The article, “Carbohydrate Restriction and Constipation”, explains why increasing those dietary saturated fats, of which the melting points are higher than the human body temperature, would increase the risk of constipation. [1] This relationship helps ponder the myths regarding (1) the existence of a perfect gastrointestinal system; (2) the rationale of counting dietary calories for…
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has continued to increase. As of 2010, in the US alone, 25.6 millions or 11.3% of its population, aged 20 years or older, were diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetics. During the same time, 79 millions of Americans, aged 20 years or older, were pre-diabetic. [1] In August 2011, World Health Organization…
Hyperglycemia is the cardinal clinical finding of diabetes mellitus, regardless of its types. Understandably, to qualify for the diagnostic criteria of diabetes mellitus, the timing and the level of hyperglycemia are specifically defined, e.g. FPG (fasting plasma glucose) >=110 (6.1 mmol/l) and <126 mg/dl (7.0 mmol/l) = Impaired Fasting Glucose; and FPG >=126 mg/dl (7.0…
[JEV News, December 16, 2011] I wrote for the JEV News last week, on December 9, 2011, about the announcement on Medicare coverage for obesity screening and counseling as a preventive service for seniors who are obese with a Body Mass Index more than 30 Kg/M2. I praised the new coverage an excellent initiative by…
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…
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…
