Gout Caused By This Fat, Not Uric Acid (study)

Gout Caused By This Fat, Not Uric Acid (study)

Gout is caused by a high uric acid level. Everyone knows that, right? According to a new study published in Clinical Rheumatology, this is not the case at all. It’s actually caused by a common type of fat. Cut out this fat and watch your gout melt away. Triglycerides...
Obesity And Cholesterol Not Caused By Diet

Obesity And Cholesterol Not Caused By Diet

Obesity is as bad for your heart as smoking according to the American Heart Association, which had singled out excess weight as one of the biggest causes of coronary heart disease as long ago as 1998. But haven’t we all tried to lose weight and haven’t most of us...
Is Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Fatal? (or worse)

Is Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Fatal? (or worse)

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the new silent killer. More people have NAFLD than high blood pressure. And most of them don’t even know it. Indeed, if you’re overweight, there’s a 75–90% chance that you have NAFLD (whether or not you’ve been...
Healing Heritable Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Healing Heritable Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

The traditional medical system has been unable to develop any solution for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). So, they have started to wonder if it is perhaps genetic. This would be frustrating, because then there would be little we could do about it. But a...
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Not What, But How We Eat

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Not What, But How We Eat

The food we eat is important for health, but often the way we prepare food can be equally important. The Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences just published a study comparing how different cooking methods affect non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The authors of the...