For Those not Scientifically Inclined

This is a simplified summary of the last two posts. Polyunsaturated fats in the diet are mostly omega-6 or omega-3. These get converted int...

Eicosanoids and Ischemic Heart Disease, Part II

Here's where it gets more complica ted and more interesting. The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 matters, but so does the total amount of ea...

Eicosanoids and Ischemic Heart Disease

Dr. William Lands, one of the pioneers of the eicosanoid field, compiled this graph. It may be the single most important clue we have about ...

Eicosanoids, Fatty Liver and Insulin Resistance

I have to take a brief intermission from the heart disease series to write about a very important paper I just read in the journal Obesity, ...

The Coronary Heart Disease Epidemic: Possible Culprits Part II

In the last post, I reviewed some of the factors that I believe could have contributed to the epidemic of heart attacks that began in the 19...

The Coronary Heart Disease Epidemic: Possible Culprits Part I

In the last post, I reviewed two studies that suggested heart attacks were rare in the U.K. until the 1920s -1930s. In this post, I'll ...

The Coronary Heart Disease Epidemic

Few people alive today are old enough to remember the beginning of the coronary heart disease (CHD) epidemic in the 1920s and 1930s, when ph...