Eat More Veggies and Fruit: Eating around 3 cups of vegetables and fruit each day can lower your risk of heart disease 30 percent, compared to those who eat less.
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Think of exercise as heart health insurance: The American Heart Association recommends four types of physical activity—endurance, strength, flexibility, and balance.
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Caffeine is one of the most used stimulants in the world with over 80% of adults in the US consuming caffeine daily. Caffeine is most commonly consumed through coffee, tea, soda, or energy drinks, but foods such as dark chocolate also have high levels of caffeine. Given the wide spread consumption of caffeine, it is important to understand how it affects our physiology….
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Author: Satchin Panda, PhD Graphic Design: Dora Wang All of us may be shift workers; which shift worker are you? For the thousands of years… Read More »All of us may be shift workers; which shift worker are you?
Cory and Dona Mapston have been living on a shift work schedule for almost 3 decades. Cory is a sergeant in the San Diego Police Department and despite a rotating shift-work schedule, he has managed to optimize his schedule to stay healthy. Unfortunately, most people on a shift work schedule have not cracked this very complicated code of healthy living on an erratic schedule. We interviewed Cory and his wife Dona to discuss what they’ve learned over the past 28 years of living with shift-work.
Author: Emily Manoogian, PhD Cory Mapston is a Sergeant of San Diego Police Department and has been on a rotating shift work schedule for the… Read More »Meet the Mapstons Part 2: Living with Shift-Work
Author: Emily Manoogian, PhD Welcome to our third and final installment of the Meet the Mapstons short series. Unlike previous entries focused on shift-workers, this… Read More »Meet the Mapstons Part 3: Secondhand Shift-Work
(LA JOLLA) – As part of our project to better understand healthy lifestyles in our society, we will be interviewing a wide variety of people that are living healthy lives. I am honored to have, as our first interviewee, Dr. Roger Guillemin, MD, Ph.D., a Nobel-laureate in endocrinology, artist, husband, father of six, grandfather, and still active 92 years old. In the interview, we talked about his life, his family, and his daily lifestyle (when, what, and how much he eats, sleeps, and moves). In order to understand his lifestyle, first, you’ll need to know more about his life….
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Author: Dan Zigmond I never thought I would write a diet book. But I did. I thought some people might be interested to know why. I’m… Read More »Writing Buddha’s Diet
A case for precise insulin dosing in type 2 diabetes Author: Nimet Maherali, Ph.D. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nimet_maherali Medium: https://medium.com/@nimet.maherali This is the story of how I… Read More »A case for precise insulin dosing in type 2 diabetes
Author: Satchin Panda, PhD The word circadian comes from the Latin words ‘circa’ (meaning approximately) and ‘dian’ (meaning day). So, any rhythm that repeats itself… Read More »What are Circadian Rhythms?