Senior Nutrition

Nutrition for Seniors

Beyond Total Cholesterol: The Truth About LDL Particles, Inflammation, and Heart Disease Risk

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Cholesterol and heart disease are widely misunderstood topics in healthcare. Blanket statements like “HDL is good, LDL is bad” or “high cholesterol causes heart attacks” are too simplistic and often lead to unnecessary medication. This article will examine common misconceptions about cholesterol, explain how LDL particles work, analyze sample blood tests, review potential harms of … Read more

Metabolic Syndrome: The Dangers of Insulin Resistance and its Complications

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For many years, treatment of type 2 diabetes focused on lowering blood sugar through medications like insulin, sulfonylureas and metformin. However, large studies have now shown that simply lowering HbA1c does not necessarily improve health outcomes like heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and death. Why is this? For many dealing with type 2 diabetes, a … Read more

Unlocking the Link: How Insulin Resistance Drives Metabolic Syndrome

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Type 2 diabetes was long considered an irreversible and progressive disease due to the belief that it involved “pancreatic burnout.” However, newer research shows that type 2 diabetes is actually reversible in many cases. This is because the underlying cause is not permanent damage to the pancreas, but rather a reversible dysfunction caused by ectopic … Read more