Get Dr La Puma's Healthy Bites & Weekly Wows in your inbox to help you feel your best inside and out. Insights, healthy recipes and recommended household, culinary, literary, botanical and natural products to make your life easier, healthier and more fun.
The most popular Rx’d drug in America, Lipitor, went generic this week as atorvastatin. Lipitor sales were $8.7 billion last year, and 3.3 million people take it. If you have insurance, request the generic. Watch your copayment drop from $25 per month to a generic copayment to $10. If [...]
Omega-3 fatty acids are powerful: with vitamin D, they’re something that almost everyone needs to supplement, no matter how good your diet. Why? Because people with heart disease who just had a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) had a 49% lower risk for dying 30 days after their CABG [...]
Do Statins Raise Diabetes Risk? Probably, in higher doses. A study of 18000 people without heart disease, called JUPITER, shows that Crestor (rosuvastatin) 20 mg showed that for every 1000 patients on high dose (40mg and up) statins, there are 6 more cases of new diabetes over 2 years. [...]
Please Login to view this content. (Not a member? Join [...]
Dr Oz says “break it down and make it simple”. Dr. Roizen says “diet smart, not hard: small changes make a big difference.” They recommend in their new YOU: Losing Weight Recruit your team. You need someone to cheer for you and take the fries from you. Plan Your [...]
Eating for health doesn’t have to be expensive. And it’s some of the best medicine: for weight loss, for pre-diabetes, for cancer prevention, for cholesterol control. Courtesy of MyMoneyBlog are easy ways to understand the cost of calories. In speaking with health professionals about [...]
Gary Taubes blew the top off the New York Times readership with his carefully researched “What if it’s all been a big fat lie?” about fat and heart disease in 2002 (translation: it’s the type of fat that matters, not total fat). He’s doing it again with “Is Sugar [...]
The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) has documented exactly what people do who have lost weight and kept it off. Over 5000 people have lost an average of 66 lbs and kept it off for 5.5 years. The research of the weight control registry helps me coach my clients [...]