Eight servings of fruit & vegetables a day helps prevent heart attacks & heart disease. What’s the cost of food when eating that much fruit & veggies? Eat Lots of Fruits and Vegetables - From Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine February 6, 2011 “Increasing fruit and vegetable intake from five to eight servings a day [...]
Dr. Gabe Mirkin, M.D., Report on Gall Stones We’ve all heard (or experienced first hand) that gall stones aren’t fun. But you know, I’ve been a veganish vegetarian for a long time, I’m 61, and I’ve never had a gall bladder attack - touch wood. Which makes me wonder. Dr. Mirkin‘s report on gall stones [...]
Tags: Dr. Gabe Mirkin, Dr. Mirkin, gall bladder, gall stones, going veg, going vegetarian, healthy vegetarian diet, plant based diet, vegetarian diet
Keep On Moving! Important Advice For All Sitting Workers & Couch Potatoes, from the May 3, 2009 issue of Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Health and Fitness Ezine: The next time you are stuck sitting in one place for a very long time, get up and move. Sitting for extended periods markedly increases your chances of suffering [...]
Tags: blood sugar, couch potato, diabetes, Dr. Mirkin, exercise, exercising, Gabe Mirkin, healthy problems, heart attack, sedentary, sitting, sitting working
From the 3.29.09 issue of Dr. Mirkin’s Health and Fitness Ezine: The blood levels of Vitamin D in Americans dropped significantly from 1994 to 2004 (Archives of Internal Medicine, March 2009). This is frightening because low levels of Vitamin D are associated premature death, heart attacks, strokes, and at least 17 different cancers. The authors [...]
Tags: Dr. Mirkin, sun exposure, sunlight, Vit D, Vit D deficiency, Vitamin D, vitamin D supplements, vitamin deficiency
From the 3.15.09 issue of Dr. Mirkin’s Health and Fitness Ezine In this issue, Dr. Gabe Mirkin talks about exercising over 50 to live longer. Savvy Vegetarian hears from a lot of folks with questions about going vegetarian to lose weight, get fit and improve their health. I tiresomely repeat over and over that eating [...]
Tags: Dr. Mirkin, eat healthy, exercise, fitness, Health Blog, healthy eating, vegetarian diet and health
Dr. Gabe Mirkin talks a lot about plant based diet and exercise, as an effective way to prevent and control diabetes. Savvy Veg hears from a lot of diabetics and pre-diabetic people with questions about going vegetarian, and I recommend his site as an excellent resource for diabetes info From the 2.15.09 issue of Dr. [...]
Tags: diabetes, diabetic, Dr. Mirkin, exercise, fitness, Health Blog, plant based diet, pre-diabstic, vegetarian
