The specific carbohydrate diet was developed by Canadian biochemist Elaine Gottschall and presented in her pioneering book “Breaking the Vicious Cycle”. The key ideas of this book, based on the research of Drs. Merrill P. and Sidney V. Haas, state that indigested carbohydrates in the intestinal tract can compromise the body’s immunity, weight, and health as a whole.

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According to today’s news published by CanWest News Service, several modern researchers are insisting that bad rap on dietary fats should be put in question. Butter and lard, which gained a very bad reputation due to the prevailing in the Western world “lipid hypothesis” of obesity and other diseases of civilization, are indeed a part of a healthy diet.
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Crestor, also known as Rosuvastatin, is a prescription drug that is applied in modern medicine to decrease patients’ blood levels of “bad” cholesterol, or so-called low-density lipoprotein, triglycerides, and other undesirable lipids (fats).

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The acid-alkaline diet is a variation of the food-combining diet (read our article “Food Combination Diet - Will It Help You Lose Weight?”). In this popular diet, all products are divided into two basic groups - alkaline-forming and acid-forming. The goal of dieters is to eat roughly 80 percent alkaline-forming foods and only about 20 percent acid-forming foods.

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This week, the results of a massive study on world obesity have been released by the top medical research institute in France and published in the U.S. Journal of the American Heart Association.

Read full “Adult Obesity Overwhelms the World”