Health

Do low-carb diets damage the kidneys?

Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets—like the Atkins diet—have been popular among dieters for years. For just as long, experts have worried that such diets might be harmful to the kidneys. A study appearing in an ...

Medical research

Making age reversal real

UNSW Professor David Sinclair has some complaints about the human lifespan. It's too short, for a start. Most of us live "only 30,000 days" according to the internationally renowned geneticist. What's worse, the last 5000 ...

Diabetes

Luseogliflozin effective for T2DM with low-carb, high-carb diet

(HealthDay)—For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), the SGLT2 inhibitor luseogliflozin has similar efficacy when meals contain 40 to 55 percent total energy from carbohydrate (TEC), according to a study published online ...

Cardiology

Why won't people take their statins?

Cardiovascular disease—the thickening and hardening of arteries causing increased risk of strokes and heart attacks—is the No. 1 cause of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. High cholesterol is ...

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