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Subject: The "Cholesterol Vitamin" + Caribbean
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June 27, 2008
In This Issue:
* Why Most Health Foods are a Waste of Money
* You Don't Need Drugs to Control Your Cholesterol
* Delicious Wonder Drug for High Blood Pressure Praised by
Harvard Researchers
* Hidden Benefits of Being Messy
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Dear Canute,
Have you ever heard of the "cholesterol vitamin?"
It has been shown to bring cholesterol levels down on its
own or can help prescription cholesterol-lowering
medications work like a charm. Allan Magaziner, DO, author
of The All-Natural Cardio Cure, reveals the name of the
vitamin... reviews the impressive research on it thus
far... and tells how to use it to best effect.
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Good news for all you messy people! If you're a messy sort
of person, your best bet might be to just embrace it. David
H. Freedman, coauthor of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden
Benefits of Disorder, explains what major medical
breakthrough was the direct result of a messy office -- and
tells what's wrong with tidy houses, clean desks and
manicured lawns.
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You Don't Need Drugs to Control Your Cholesterol
Allan Magaziner, DO
Magaziner Center for Wellness and Anti-Aging Medicine
It's widely known that low cholesterol levels help prevent
heart attack and stroke. But that's only part of the story.
Levels of HDL "good" cholesterol must be high enough to
carry harmful forms of cholesterol to the liver to be
excreted.
New finding: Research has shown that decreasing LDL
"bad" cholesterol by 40% and increasing HDL by
30% lowers the risk for heart attack or stroke by 70% -- a
much greater reduction of risk than occurs from lowering
either total cholesterol or LDL levels.
The pharmaceutical industry has worked feverishly to
develop a prescription medication that significantly
increases HDL levels, to be used as a complement to
cholesterol-lowering statins that focus primarily on
lowering LDL levels.
Latest development: The new drug torcetrapib was pegged as
a blockbuster that increases HDL levels by 60% -- that is,
until last December, when late-stage clinical trials showed
that torcetrapib actually increased heart problems and
death rates.
What you may not know: Therapeutic doses of niacin (vitamin
B-3) effectively boost HDL levels -- and lower LDL and
total cholesterol.
THE "CHOLESTEROL VITAMIN"
Fifty years ago, Canadian scientists discovered that high
doses of nicotinic acid -- a form of niacin -- could lower
total cholesterol. In a 1975 study of men with heart
disease, niacin was shown to reduce the rate of second
heart attacks. Later, niacin was found to boost
heart-protective HDL levels.
Although niacin alone cannot help everyone with abnormal
cholesterol levels -- often it is best used in combination
with a statin -- the vitamin is one of the most effective
nondrug therapies available.
Ask your doctor about taking niacin if after trying
cholesterol-lowering medication you have suffered side
effects or your cholesterol levels have not improved within
three months of getting a cholesterol test. Or consider
trying niacin with the nondrug therapies described below.
How to use: Start with 100 mg of niacin daily and build up
over one week to 500 mg a day. Every week, increase the
dose by 500 mg until you reach 2,000 mg a day, taken in
three divided doses, with meals. Be certain to use
nicotinic acid, not niacinamide, a form of B vitamin that
does not improve cholesterol levels. Consult your doctor
before taking niacin.
The most common side effect of niacin is flushing -- a
warm, itchy, rash-like reddening of the face, neck and
chest, which lasts about 10 minutes. Flushing is caused
by niacin's ability to trigger vasodilation (widening of
blood vessels).
To lessen this side effect, choose a form of niacin known
as inositol hexanicotinate. It helps prevent the flush
without reducing niacin's effectiveness.
Caution: Niacin should be avoided by people with a history
of liver disease or stomach ulcers and used with caution by
patients with diabetes and/or gallbladder disease. In
addition, high-dose niacin (2,000 mg or more) may interact
with certain medications, including alpha-blockers, such as
doxazosin (Cardura), and the diabetes drug metformin
(Glucophage).
OTHER NONDRUG THERAPIES
A diet that keeps sugar and processed food to an absolute
minimum and emphasizes fruits and vegetables... whole
grains... beans... fish... lean meats... and nuts and seeds
can help lower LDL cholesterol and raise HDL levels. So
can regular exercise, such as brisk walking, and losing
excess weight.
Other nondrug approaches can lower total and LDL
cholesterol and boost HDL. Combine the following nondrug
therapies with niacin for maximum effectiveness...
Red yeast rice. This Chinese medicine -- a yeast that is
grown on white rice, then fermented -- contains monacolins,
substances that act as naturally occurring statins. Research
in China shows that red yeast rice can lower total cholesterol
by 11% to 30%. Typical use: Take 1,200 to 2,400 mg a day of
red yeast rice, in two to four doses, with meals.
Not recommended: Policosanol -- a supplement derived from
cane sugar that also contains natural statins -- has been
widely promoted as effective for lowering cholesterol.
However, several recent studies show that policosanol has
no significant effect on cholesterol.
Fish oil and flaxseed. Fish oil and flaxseed supply omega-3
fatty acids, which lower total cholesterol and LDL levels
and raise HDL levels. Typical dose: For fish oil, take
supplements containing a total of 3 g daily of
eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
If you take a blood-thinning drug, such as aspirin or
warfarin (Coumadin), check with your doctor before taking
this dose of fish oil. Or use one to three teaspoons of
ground flaxseed a day, sprinkled on food or mixed with
water or juice. Flaxseed also can help relieve constipation
and ease arthritis pain.
Soy. Many studies show that soy can help lower total and
LDL cholesterol. Typical use: Try to get 20 g of soy
protein a day -- the equivalent of eight ounces of tofu...
or one cup of edamame (soy) beans. Important: Soy ice cream
and other processed soy foods don't deliver enough soy to
help reduce cholesterol.
Caution: If you have been diagnosed with a hormone-dependent
cancer, such as some breast malignancies, or are at risk for
such a condition, check with your doctor before adding soy to
your diet.
Plant sterols. These natural substances, which block the
absorption of cholesterol in the intestines, are found in
fruits, vegetables, beans, grains and other plants. Regular
intake can reduce total cholesterol by 10% and LDL by 14%.
Products with plant sterols (or a similar form, plant
stanols) include spreads, salad dressings, snack bars and
dietary supplements. Typical use: Aim for 1Â g to 2 g
daily of plant sterols.
Walnuts. A recent study published in the medical journal
Angiology showed that people who ate a handful of walnuts
daily for eight weeks had a 9% increase in HDL. Walnuts
contain polyphenol antioxidants, which also inhibit
oxidation of LDL cholesterol. Recommended intake: One ounce
of raw walnuts three times daily.
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clinical instructor in the department of family practice at
the Robert Wood Johnson University of Medicine and
Dentistry in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the medical
director of the Magaziner Center for Wellness and
Anti-Aging Medicine in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
(www.drmagaziner.com). A past president of the American
College for Advancement in Medicine, he is the author of
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Harvard researchers were stunned to discover it's because
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Hidden Benefits of Being Messy
David H. Freedman
Society isn't kind to messy people. Parents punish
children who won't clean their rooms, and bosses question
the competence of employees who have messy desks. But is
messy really so bad?
Professional organizers claim that clutter costs us hours
each day by making it harder to find things. Our surveys,
however, suggest that messy people spend only nine minutes
per day, on average, trying to find things in their homes
and another nine minutes trying to find things in their
offices. Most messy people can locate what they need fairly
quickly -- they just look where they last had the item.
When a mess has been cleaned, it often takes longer to
remember where the item has been stored.
Some experts believe we need schedules and plans to stay
headed in the right direction, but people with plans often
stick to those plans long after it should have been obvious
that their plans were not working. Disorganized people
usually are better at rolling with the punches and seizing
serendipitous opportunities.
Example: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin when samples he had carelessly left exposed in
his mess of an office were contaminated while he was on
vacation.
For many people, a certain amount of messiness can be
beneficial...
Messy house
What does a tidy home actually do for you? It will not make
you more productive -- the hours spent cleaning won't save
you much, if any, time finding things later. It will not
make you healthier -- if anything, exposure to the
chemicals in household cleaners tends to be worse for our
health than living in a cluttered home, unless the mess is
extreme and dust and mold accumulate. Finally, a tidy home
probably will not make you happier -- perhaps you feel
better when your house is neat, but if your family does not
share this passion for spotlessness, your demands for
cleanliness are likely to lead to arguments and
unhappiness. What to do...
Allow certain sections of the house to be messy. Let your
messy spouse have a disorganized den... allow projects to
pile up on the otherwise unused dining room table... don't
worry if the kids' rooms are a mess.
Permit mess cycles. Don't try to keep the home spotless all
the time. Let the mess build, and pick up every few weeks
or when guests are coming.
Cluttered desk
Neat people tend to equate messy desks with inefficiency,
but for a naturally messy person, a messy desk might be the
most efficient arrangement.
Helpful: Messes don't look as messy when they're arranged
in stacks. Things will be easy to find because they will be
piled close to where they were last used, and stacking is
quicker than organizing and filing. It doesn't take
substantially longer to dig through a pile of papers on a
desk to find an item than it does to sort through a filing
cabinet trying to remember where the item was filed.
Untidy yard
Tending to a lawn absorbs hours of our time, wastes
hundreds of gallons of water and often involves drenching
the yard in pesticides. We all would be better off if
"neat" lawns were replaced with "messy" fields of
native plants.
You can make a naturally landscaped lawn more palatable to
fussy neighbors by placing a border of neat grass around
the edges. Also, explain to your neighbors what you're
doing and why. You might even get them thinking about their
own lawns.
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business and science journalist based in Needham,
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principles of the US Marines and the structure of modern
computers. He is coauthor, with Eric Abrahamson, of A
Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (Little,
Brown).
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