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Alzheimer’s Disease: Up to half of cases potentially preventable

November 29, 2011 – 8:00 am

November was proclaimed National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, in recognition of the five million Americans stricken with the devastating terminal illness, now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. A new analysis suggests that up to half of these millions of cases may have been preventable through lifestyle changes. We’ve known for…

Posted in News | Tagged Alzheimer's, amyloid, apple juice, cholesterol, cognition, cranberry, dementia, fruit, fruit juice, ginger, meat, phytonutrients, plant-based diet, pomegranate | Comments (4)

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#10)

November 26, 2011 – 8:00 am

This is another sampling of the more than 700 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org. And remember, there’s a new video posted every weekday, so to make sure…

Posted in News | Tagged algae, alkaline water, American Heart Association, amyloid, apple juice, baking soda, chicken, cholesterol, DDT, Dukan Diet, fish oil, flax, Gardein, krill oil, milk protein, nuts, obesity, plant-based diet, Quorn, salt, sodium, soy protein, strokes, veggie chicken, vitamin D | Comments (2)

Talking Turkey: 9 out of 10 retail turkey samples contaminated with fecal bacteria

November 21, 2011 – 8:59 am

Ben Franklin’s tree-perching “Bird of Courage” has been transformed into a flightless butterball so top-heavy they are physically incapable of mating (necessitating artificial insemination). Turkeys are bred to grow so fast, a group of veterinary researchers concluded, “they are on the verge of structural collapse.” Wild turkeys grow to be 8 pounds in the time…

Posted in News | Tagged bacteria, CDC, contamination, e. coli, food safety, meat, MRSA, Pew Commission, poultry, public health, staph, staphylococcus, turkey | Comments (23)

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#9)

November 19, 2011 – 8:00 am

This is another sampling of the more than 650 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org. And remember, there’s a new video posted every weekday, so to make sure…

Posted in News | Tagged cancer, coffee, colitis, ganoderma, Green tea, inflammatory bowel disease, medical school, Semmelweis reflex | Comments (5)

Nutrition education in medicine: A doctor a day keeps the apples away

November 14, 2011 – 8:00 am

This month in the journal Academic Medicine yet another editorial was published decrying the sorry state of nutrition knowledge in medical education, a problem diagnosed yet untreated for the last 50 years. What is the profession doing about it? This morning’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Medical Associations Oppose Bill to Mandate Nutrition Training exposes the fact that…

Posted in News | Tagged doctors, Dr. John McDougall, medical education, medical profession, medical school, nutrition, nutrition education, physicians | Comments (11)

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#8)

November 12, 2011 – 8:00 am

This is another sampling of the more than 600 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org. And remember, there’s a new video posted every weekday, so to make…

Posted in News | Tagged blood type, calcium, celiac, cinnamon, dairy, diet, drugs, durian, fruits, kidney stone, meat, Methotrexate, orange juice, oxalates, rheumatoid arthritis, salt, sugar, vegetables, water | Comments (8)

Dietary Guideline graphics: From the Food Pyramid to MyPlate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate

November 7, 2011 – 8:00 am

In last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard, and David Ludwig, founding director of the childhood obesity program at Children’s Hospital, published a commentary on the latest dietary guidelines. They echo much of what I’ve featured in my three-week video series on the subject. Their…

Posted in News | Tagged agribusiness, American Meat Institute, beans, berries, candy, CDC, Coca Cola, dairy, dietary guidelines, disease, egg, Finland, fruit, Greece, Harvard, McDonald's®, nuts, obesity, PCRM, plant-based diet, protein, saturated fat, trans fat, USDA, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, whole grains | Comments (5)

The Best Foods: test your nutrition knowledge

November 6, 2011 – 8:00 am

Today I’m highlighting twenty questions from twenty NutritionFacts.org “best of” videos ranking different classes of foods. Ultimately, the “best” apple, bean, vegetable, etc. is whichever one you actually eat (in the same way that the “best” exercise is the exercise you actually do), but if you’re in a position to choose, then why not shoot…

Posted in News | Tagged algae, antioxidant, apple, apple juice, beans, breast cancer, cancer, chia, chlorella, chocolate, cocoa, coffee, cooking method, cranberries, edamame, flax, lemon, lentil, mushroom, nuts, onion, orange juice, rice, soy, spirulina, sweetener, tea, tempeh, tofu, tomato juice, vegetables, water | Comments (0)

Supreme Court case: meat industry sues to keep downed animals in food supply

November 3, 2011 – 8:00 am

This week I participated in a press briefing to discuss National Meat Association v. Harris, a case appearing before the Supreme Court next week. The meat industry is trying to overturn a California law meant to keep “downed” animals—those too sick and disabled to walk to slaughter—out of the American food supply. In 2008, an…

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Foie gras ban in California: human health implications

November 1, 2011 – 8:00 am

Originally featured on One Green Planet. The New York Times recently ran a story on the upcoming foie gras ban in California. July 1, 2012, the Golden State will join over a dozen nations that have prohibited the production of foie gras, the enlarged liver of a duck or goose produced through force-feeding. Arguments against…

Posted in News | Tagged Alzheimer's, amyloid, amyloidosis, chicken, diabetes, duck, foie gras, goose, leprosy, liver, mad cow disease, New York Times, poultry, protein, rheumatoid arthritis, soup, toxocara, toxoplasma | Comments (1)

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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Alzheimer’s Disease: Up to half of cases potentially preventable

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#10)

Talking Turkey: 9 out of 10 retail turkey samples contaminated with fecal bacteria

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#9)

Nutrition education in medicine: A doctor a day keeps the apples away

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#8)

Dietary Guideline graphics: From the Food Pyramid to MyPlate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate

The Best Foods: test your nutrition knowledge

Supreme Court case: meat industry sues to keep downed animals in food supply

Foie gras ban in California: human health implications

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