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Research (Studies, Reports, etc.)

If you believe that weight loss is dependent solely on your caloric balance, then you would have lauded the latest study by George Bray, et. al., fresh off the presses at JAMA – get it while you can!: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/1/47.full (PDF here)
Most mainstream media outlets are taking this study as confirmation of the “calories in/calories out” [...]

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Avandia Linked To Heart Attacks.

by Eugene Thong on February 20, 2010

From CNN.com.
It should surprise no one in the health or medical field that the diabetes drug Avandia is linked to an increased risk of heart attacks (at least, not after Steven Nissen’s 2007 study of Avandia).  Unfortunately, for most doctors, Plan B is to simply prescribe another drug.
“Don’t worry about the Avandia scare, Mrs. Jones; [...]

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The Larger Picture of Weight Gain.

September 15, 2009

Chris points us to an interesting study involving circadian rhythm and weight gain (to be fair, Melissa sent it to me first, but she doesn’t have a blog).  In the study, nocturnal rats fed during what would have been their sleeping hours gained more weight than rats fed during their waking hours, despite the same [...]

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Getting Fit Fast and Crunches.

June 26, 2009

Gretchen Reynolds recently had a couple of interesting stories in the NY Times:
Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week?
Is Your Ab Workout Hurting Your Back?
Re: Getting Fit in Six Minutes a Week:
The take-home message is that researchers found that higher intensity (read: effort) yet short duration exercise bouts conferred equal endurance benefits as [...]

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Core Training, Performance, and Training Time (a Rant of Sorts).

March 10, 2009

Picked this up from Conditioning Research (thanks Chris):
Optimizing performance by improving core stability and core strength.
Allow me to summarize the study for you:  There’s little to no hard science recommending core work for athletes.  Now, before you get all up in arms and start screaming about instability leading to injury and how the researchers probably [...]

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The Latest NEJM Study.

February 26, 2009

Today’s New England Journal of Medicine had a special surprise for anyone interested in diet composition and weight loss.  By now, you’ve undoubtedly read or heard one of the headlines:
Want To Lose Weight?  Just Eat Less.
It’s Not What You Eat, It’s How Much.
Stick To a Low-Cal Diet and It Will Work. (This was my personal [...]

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Reading Between the Lines.

November 17, 2008

Last week I posted on the JUPITER study and the media hoopla surrounding it.
Well, looks like they’re not done yet:
Eat Your Statins.
“Eat Your Statins?“  For heaven’s sake.
There’s not much in this article that hasn’t been discussed or debunked at length on this and other blogs, but a couple of lines are worth highlighting:
The drugs have [...]

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JUPITER is a Joke.

November 11, 2008

For those of you scratching your heads and saying, “What the heck is JUPITER?”, JUPITER is the latest study purporting to show cardiovascular benefit from taking statins.  In other words – take a statin, prevent a heart attack.  After the disastrous results of the ENHANCE study, statin supporters really needed a win – and they [...]

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More on Vytorin and Cancer.

September 4, 2008

Lou points me to this article, which inspires me to beat up on statins a little more.
Earlier this year, the ENHANCE study pointed to a greater chance of cardiovascular death in folks taking a statin than controls. In fact, the greater the statin’s effect (the lower the patients’ LDL went), the greater the level [...]

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Fish Oil>Statins.

September 2, 2008

Told you to toss your statins, kiddies.
Fish Oil Outperforms Statin in Heart Failure Study.
According to this new study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, a fish oil supplement containing 1 gram of Omega 3 fatty acids (EPA, DHA) slightly outperformed the statin Crestor in preventing death from heart disease. Most of the [...]

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