New DVD to Help Resolute Your Resolutions
The current batch of videos from volume 11 on are set to run out soon here on NutritionFacts.org, so starting mid-month and running through April I’ll be rolling out the videos from this new DVD, volume 12. The DVDs give folks the opportunity to sneak-preview videos months ahead of time, watch them all straight through, and share as gifts, but there’s nothing on the DVDs that won’t eventually end up online free here at NutritionFacts.org.
The Latest in Clinical Nutrition volume 12 DVD is available now with all proceeds going to keep NutritionFacts.org operational. If you’re in need of catching up, I’ve packaged the first ten volumes into a 12-disc DVD set.
Here’s the list of chapters off the new volume 12 DVD — a preview of what’s to come here on NutritionFacts.org:
• Fibromyalgia vs. Vegetarian & Raw Vegan Diets • Fibromyalgia vs. Mostly Vegetarian & Mostly Raw Diets • Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens • PhIP: The Three Strikes Breast Carcinogen • Reducing Cancer Risk in Meateaters • Heterocyclic Amines in Eggs, Cheese, and Creatine? • Cancer, Interrupted: Green Tea • Cancer, Interrupted: Garlic & Flavonoids • Prolonged Liver Function Enhancement From Broccoli • Meat Fumes: Dietary Secondhand Smoke • Plant-Based Diets: Oral Health • Plant-Based Diets: Dental Health • Does Coconut Oil Cure Alzheimer's? • Does Coconut Oil Clog Arteries? • Is Vitamin D3 Better Than D2? • Are Cats or Dogs More Protective For Children's Health? • Can Gargling Prevent the Common Cold? • Titanium Dioxide & Inflammatory Bowel Disease • Protein, Puberty, and Pollutants • Clinical Studies on Acai Berries • Preventing Parkinson's Disease With Diet • Treating Parkinson's Disease With Diet • Herbal Tea Update: Hibiscus • Eggs vs. Cigarettes in Atherosclerosis • Dried Apples, Dates, Figs, or Prunes for Cholesterol? • Prunes vs. Metamucil for Constipation • Do Fruit & Nut Bars Cause Weight Gain? • Raisins vs. Jelly Beans for Athletic Performance • Salmonella in Chicken and Turkey: Deadly but Legal • Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer • Was It the Flaxseed, Fat Restriction, or Both? • Flaxseed vs. Diabetes • Flaxseeds for Sensitive Skin • Fiber vs. Breast Cancer • Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention • Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Epidemiological Evidence • Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Clinical Evidence • The McGovern Report
Order the new DVD on my website or through Amazon.
January 1st marked the 500th day of his website’s existence. My heartfelt gratitude to all those who joined in the outpouring of support to keep NutritionFacts.org up and running. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to raise enough to keep the site going at full capacity, which is why this is the first day since NutritionFacts.org started that there is no video-of-the-day.
In 2013, new videos will only appear every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — but I’m going to start writing two blog posts a week, on Tuesday and Thursday, so if you’re subscribed to daily video and news updates you’ll still be able to enjoy new content every day.
Hopefully we’ll be able to raise enough funds this year that I can get back to a daily video schedule. All of my time is donated, but each video can entail charges for things like article and image licensing costs. If you value NutritionFacts.org, you can contribute to our 501c3 nonprofit charity with a credit card, through a direct Paypal link, or by sending a check to NutritionFacts.org, 5113 Crossfield Ct. #9, Rockville, MD 20852. You can now even involve the whole family at your child’s next birthday party through ECHOage — check it out!
Thanks again to all our wonderful supporters and may everyone have a happy and healthy new year.
-Michael Greger, M.D.
Burning Fat With Flavonoids
Nuts appear to boost one’s metabolism, such that when we eat nuts we burn more of our own fat to compensate. In my 2-min. video, Testing the Fat Burning Theory, I show that people who don’t eat nuts tend to burn off around 20 grams of fat a day–about 5 pats worth of butter, but those eating walnuts averaged more like 31 grams–7 or 8 pats of butter. In Fat Burning Via Arginine, I explore one theory as to why this may happen (and where arginine can be found in our diet).
It may also be the flavonoids, phytonutrients found in nuts as well as citrus, berries, red onions, beans, green tea, grapes, and cocoa, that may boost our metabolism enough to significantly slim our waistline. Based on what kind of evidence? I showcase a study done on purple grape juice in my video Fat Burning Via Flavonoids.
Just like nuts are calorically dense yet don’t seem to cause much weight gain, Welch’s was hoping that the same would be found for their grape juice. They had people guzzle down 2 cups a day for three months. Keep in mind that Welch’s grape juice has more sugar than Coca Cola. Two cups of purple grape juice contain the equivalent of 20 spoonfuls of sugar. The control group was basically given grape Kool-Aid instead, with the same number of calories and same amount of sugar, but no detectable phytonutrients.
At two cups a day study subjects were getting hundreds of extra calories a day. Surely after 3 months they’d gain a couple pounds. Indeed that’s what happened in the grape-flavored sugar water group—how could they not with all that extra sugar in their diet? The grape juice group, on the other hand, did not. In fact, their waist circumference shrunk significantly. Drinking grape juice appeared to burn away significantly more tummy fat. So maybe there is something to the theory put forth by the nut and green tea researchers that flavonoid phytonutrients are capable of helping the body burn fat. If true, then it’s just one more reason to eat nuts and drink green tea—not grape juice. Instead of the juice, I’d recommend eating concord grapes, the source of purple grape juice that you may be able to find at a farmer’s market near you.
-Michael Greger, M.D.
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