Dr. Greger’s 2014 Year-in-Review Presentation
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Keeping Better Score of Your Diet
Are the apparently amazing benefits of amla—dried Indian gooseberries—too good to be true? In reference to amla, also known as the Indian gooseberry, it’s been said that “medicinal plants are nature’s gift to human beings to promote a disease free...
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Stopping Heart Disease in Childhood
A landmark paper in 1953 radically changed our view about the development of heart disease...
How Plant-Based Diets May Extend Our Lives
A recent review suggested that plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy...
A Low-Methionine Diet May Help Starve Cancer Cells
When designing an antibiotic, we can’t create a drug that destroys DNA because that’s something...
How Animal Proteins May Trigger Autoimmune Disease
Although slaughterhouse workers with the most poultry exposure appear to suffer the greatest excess mortality...
Handling Poultry Tied to Liver/Pancreatic Cancers
Thousands of Americans continue to die from asbestos exposure decades after many uses were banned...
Improving Attractiveness in Six Weeks
Inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption may kill millions around the globe every year, so the...
Want to Be Healthier? Change Your Taste Buds
How can we overcome our built-in hunger drives for salt, sugar, and fat? We now...
How to Get Parents to Eat Their Vegetables
Changing the name of healthy foods can have a significant impact on children’s eating habits...
How to Get Our Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
When researchers offered kids broccoli or a chocolate bar, which do you think they picked?...
How to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
What happens if we give one group of kids a plate of cookies and the...
Food Dyes and ADHD
There are currently thousands of additives in our food supply. Some are good—like supplementing foods...
Dr. Greger’s New Nutrition DVD Now Available
Exciting news! I just signed a book deal with a new non-fiction division of famed...
How to Treat ADHD Without Drugs
Every year in the United States, doctors write 20 million prescriptions for stimulants like Ritalin...
Avoid Butter-Flavored Microwave Popcorn
What does chemical warfare and microwave popcorn have in common? The poison gas phosgene, first...
Pistachios May Help Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is a major cause of decreased quality of life in men—so much so...
Foods for a Long Life and Love Life
Motivating patients to change poor lifestyle habits can be extremely difficult. Preventing cardiovascular events such...
Pills vs. Diet for Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is the recurrent or persistent inability to attain and/or maintain an erection in...
Which Seaweed to Help Prevent Breast Cancer?
Sushi lovers, rejoice. Nori seaweed may favorably alter estrogen metabolism by modulating women’s gut flora,...
Preloading with Watercress Before Exercise
Could exercise be creating harmful free radicals? Oxidizing glucose to produce energy for our bodies...
Berries to Prevent Muscle Soreness
The burning sensation during strenuous exercise may be related to the build-up of lactic acid...
Citrus to Reduce Muscle Fatigue
The lactic acid that makes yogurt tangy is the same lactic acid that builds up...
How Citrus Might Help Keep Your Hands Warm
In 1936, Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering vitamin C, described a...
Toxin Contamination of Spirulina Supplements
On his first day of life, an infant was hospitalized with seizures. Researchers concluded that...
