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Nutrition – The Vitamins –– John Eagle Honda

Nutrition – The Vitamins
By Ladislav P. Novak, Ph.D.

Courtesy John Eagle Honda, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine

When vitamins were discovered, people fell in love with them. Vitamins seemed to be the answer to an easy route to good health. Today, scientists are discovering the complexity of the interactions of vitamins in the body and in food. Scientific advances brought on understanding of the biological roles the vitamins play in maintaining health and preventing deficiency diseases. […]

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Nutrition: Part II

Nutrition: Part II
Fats
By Ladislav P. Novak, Ph.D.

Courtesy John Eagle Honda, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine

In the spring issue of LIVING WELL Magazine “Nutrition: Part 1,” I provided basic information about calories, proteins, carbohydrates and fats. I felt a brief note should be provided here in the summer issue to further clarify the differences between saturated fats and unsaturated fats. […]

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Nutrition: Calories, Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates (Part I)

Nutrition: Calories, Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates

By Ladislav P. Novak, Ph.D.
Courtesy John Eagle Honda, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine

All efforts to achieve weight loss, stronger muscles, establish good health habits, etc., would decline slowly year by year if you didn’t put a determined break on your appetite simultaneously. […]

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John Eagle Honda on Sarcopenia and the elderly – LIVING WELL Magazine

Sarcopenia and the Elderly (Part I)
By Ladislav P. Novak, Ph.D., Courtesy John Eagle Honda, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine
Human body changes with age and it is recognized by all of us, that in old age, there is a loss of skeletal muscles. This factual phenomenon has been first described by Dr. Irwin Rosenberg in 1997 who provided also a fitting name for it as “sarcopenia” which “sarco” from Greek denotes flesh (muscle) and, penia, indicates deficiency. […]