Phytosterol Supplementation

Summary English medical professionals are instructed NEVER to advised patients to eat phytosterol enriched foods. On the other hand the Australian Heart Foundation recommends medical professionals advise patients to consume 2–3 g of phytosterols per day from margarine, breakfast cereal, reduced fat yoghurt or reduced fat milk enriched with phytosterols (approximately 2–3 serves per day of … Read more

The Shopping Trolley.

The story of human evolution You’ll notice www.health.boomersclub.com.au headline banner depicts the story of human evolution through to modern man “hunting” with his shopping trolley. To get to where we are now we have overcome the Neanderthals, Sabre Tooth tigers, Ice Ages and ourselves. Today we face a new threat and it has a lot … Read more

The Cholesterol Limit

Mythbusting Cholesterol. For decades the USA diet advisory committee recommended that people should eat no more than 300 milligrams of Cholesterol per day; which is about one and half egg yolks!  The basis of this advice was that Cholesterol was associated with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) because cholesterol was a major component of the plaque … Read more