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INDUSTRIAL FOODS LIKE DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | February 9, 2014 | 3 Comments

That is to say industrial foods, what I like to call Industrial Dinners, never decompose. Say what? Previously I touched on the term ID but I didn’t get into the deeper definition. The Industrial Dinner is anything for human consumption, be it food or drink, that comes prepared, processed, or otherwise altered by human hands […]

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THE STANDARD AMERICAN DIET (SAD) AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | February 2, 2014 | 2 Comments

  THE STANDARD AMERICAN DIET (SAD) AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES Nothing points out the absurd nature of our modern diet more than by simply listing each category by percentage. Before I get to my pyramid, (the Rasmussen Food Pyramid-not as cool as the Great Pyramid but better for you. In a future blog), in detail let’s […]

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A LOW CARB DIET WILL BURN OFF THE HOLIDAY POUNDS

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | January 27, 2014 | 2 Comments

HERE’S A SUPER IMPORTANT POINT RE: THE LOW CARB SWITCH In Nutrition & Metabolism a study was published using a low carb high protein diet. This one change (74% decrease in carbohydrate consumption) led to a spontaneous reduction in caloric intake in 93% of the test patients. This reduction averaged about 700 kcal per day […]

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Flu vaccine confers10 times the risk of developing alzheimer’s disease

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | January 19, 2014 | 0 Comments

WITH FIVE YOU GET EGG ROLL Well, more properly put with 5 you get your egg rolled. This is a good time to remind you of the comments written earlier [in the full chapter of the book] that had ignited a firestorm of vitriol  and character assassination. In a speech he was giving at the […]

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Hey Mom, Should Gramps and I get the Flu Vaccine?

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | January 12, 2014 | 0 Comments

Every year millions head to their doctor, Petco or Menard’s to receive the latest flu vaccine. But before you decide to name your first daughter Vaccinia, questions should be asked first whether one should get the flu vaccine in the first place and if the flu vaccine is safe and effective? If so does it […]

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FOOD AS MEDICINE IN PREVENTING HEART ATTACKS

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | January 4, 2014 | 6 Comments

BOTTOM LINE FOR SECONDARY PREVENTION I thought I would simply give you the summary of statin therapy in the prevention of a second cardiac event in those who have heart disease which is termed secondary prevention. For primary prevention the last several articles demonstrated that statins confer no demonstrable decrease in all-cause mortality. In other […]

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75% Of All Statin Users Are Being Swindled

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | December 30, 2013 | 2 Comments

In this article you will be shocked to learn that the vast majority of patients taking a statin are being swindled and duped into thinking they are getting state-of-the-art cardiac care. When in reality there is NO INDICATION for 75% of current users to be taking one. Furthermore, anyone who takes a statin long-term is […]

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Statins, the Heart Scan, & Stone Cold Proof that I’m Right

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | December 29, 2013 | 5 Comments

In the following article I will prove to you that I know how to treat heart disease better than your family doc, internist or cardiologist because I can provide laboratory evidence to back it up. This article is a page or two longer than usual but it is the most important blog so far on […]

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The Statin Bait and Switch

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | December 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

This is where we can use the words malpractice and fraud relating to the prescribing of statin medication. This is one of Big Pharma’s bait and switches: they trumpet the horrors of “cholesterol” making you think that all LDL is bad while ignoring oxidized LDL as if they were the same species. They are not. […]

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WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU HEARD ABOUT STATINS & HEART DISEASE WAS A BIG, FAT, LIE?

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | December 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

DEATH RATE If you ever bring up the subject of heart disease at a (doctor’s) cocktail party-and you are not in the basement rec room playing naked twister-someone will probably walk up to you toting a martini with a 2 inch cigarette ash floating in it and tell you what wonderful drugs the statins are. […]

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