M Ibrahim 
The dietary guideline was simple: if you want a healthy heart, stop eating fat. We know that advice was not only incomplete. It was potentially dangerous. By strictly avoiding all fats, millions of people inadvertently cut out the specific nutrients required to keep arteries flexible and heart rhythms stable. The reality is that your cardiovascular … Read more
Most of us think that drinking a glass of milk is the only way to keep our bones from getting brittle. But your skeleton is a living thing that needs more than just a carton of dairy to stay strong. If you aren’t eating a variety of minerals, your body starts “borrowing” them from your … Read more
You watch your salt. You take your statin. You walk daily. But what if the biggest driver of your heart risk isn’t in your arteries, but in your digestive tract? Most heart doctors act like plumbers. They look at your pipes (arteries) and the pump (your heart). If a pipe is clogged, they try to … Read more
Scroll through TikTok or listen to wellness podcasts, and you’ll hear that eight common cooking oils dubbed the “Hateful Eight” are destroying your health, causing everything from obesity to cancer. The hashtag #seedoils has accumulated over 126 million views. Apps like Seed Oil Scout, which maps restaurants that don’t use these oils, have been downloaded … Read more