THE REAL CAUSE OF HEART DISEASE WE’VE ALL HEARD ABOUT THE APPARENTLY HEALTHY PERSON with no history of heart disease and no known risk factors who suddenly drops dead of a heart attack at age forty-seven while running in the park. Everybody clucks their tongue, expresses shock and disbelief, and says some version of, “But he was so healthy!” Well, he wasn’t.
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BEYOND THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET: WHAT DO I EAT? NEARLY EVERY HEALTH ORGANIZATION ON THE PLANET routinely recommends the Mediterranean Diet, as do most doctors and dietitians. But the definition of what exactly the Mediterranean Diet is remains far more elusive than you might think. First of all, there are twenty-one countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea Montenegro, Spain, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Monaco, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Cyprus, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. And guess what—they don’t all eat the same foods.
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HELP YOUR HEART WITH THESE SUPPLEMENTS ASK YOUR TYPICAL DOCTOR ABOUT NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS and the first thing you’re likely to hear is this: “There’s no good research showing they work.” Both of us have heard this refrain time and time again when we discuss nutritional medicine with our more conservative colleagues. It’s not true. You or your doctor can go online to the National Institute of Medicine’s library (www.pubmed.com), enter into the search box the name of virtually any vitamin or herb you can think of, and, depending on what you choose, hundreds to thousands of citations will pop up. So the problem isn’t an absence of research
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THE SCIENCE OF HEALTHY LIVING: EAT, LAUGH, PLAY, LOVE BOTH OF US, DURING OUR GRADUATE SCHOOL YEARS, trained in psychology. Jonny earned a master’s in psychology from the New School for Social Research, and Steve trained for two years in gestalt therapy and then followed up with a six-year certification in bioenergetic psychotherapy. Perhaps that’s why both of us, throughout our careers, have been keenly aware of the role that attitude, thought, feeling, emotion, and the subconscious play in our physical health. We have both seen the collapse of the old fashioned way of thinking about “mind” and “body” as two separate areas of study. Today, every scientist worth his weight in Bunsen burners understands that “mind” and “body” are not two discrete entities, but two completely entwined and interrelated parts of a whole that operate together and are impossible to disentangle.
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