An Alarming Trend

A tripling of strokes in middle aged women!

And why is this happening?

From the research by Dr. Amytis Towfighi, a neurology specialist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles:

Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to 2004. Only about half a percent did in the previous survey, from 1988 to 1994.....Belly fat stood out, Towfighi said. The portion of women with abdominal obesity rose from 47 percent in the earlier survey to 59 percent in the recent one. The change in men was smaller, and previous studies have shown that "abdominal obesity is a stronger risk factor for women than men," she said.

Fuller article here

I know I sound like a broken record on weight issues - but your weight is critical to good health and being overweight is bad for most everything...

I''m thinking about doing a series of videos on optimizing health - taking supplements [food based; not synthetic], managing your weight [not dieting], eating well and exercising. I'll post them here as they happen.. If you have a topic you'd like to see - post a comment and let me know what...and I'll do my best to accommodate requests.

Synthetic Vitamins - bad for your health

Wow - even the American Medical Association has published a study that is negative about synthetic vitamins...

Here is a review of the study and from there you can click though to the Journal of the AMA [JAMA] to read their review of the study.

In short - synthetic vitamins increase death risk.

Back in January, I also had an article here about synthetic vitamins and the milligram "game."

Now it seems, don't just worry about the milligrams, worry about the entire lines of synthetic vitamins...

My vitamins are food based....I don't worry....

Vitamins

For those who have been regular readers of this blog, you know I prefer "real" food to products with unpronounceable names in them....It's why I have been taking a daily vitamin that is food based - and not one "made" in a lab with who-knows-what in it.

I was alerted to an article about vitamins - which you can read by clicking here

In short it's an article about food-based vitamins v. synthetic ones and contained information I was not aware of concerning the synthetics and the idea of talking in terms of milligrams.

It's worth a read if you take vitamins.