Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to a Longer Life?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest study of risk factors for death in human history, a poor diet causes more deaths than anything. Cigarettes only kill about 8 million people a...
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Does Less Protein Increase FGF21 for Longevity?
Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid...
How to Boost Your Longevity Hormone
What can we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21? In the year 2000, a...
How Prebiotic Foods Keep Your Microbiome Healthy
We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we aren’t holding up our...
How to Boost Your Life Expectancy by 12 to 14 Years
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending lifestyle changes? A pivotal paper published in...
How to Tame Blood Sugar Spikes after Eating Potatoes
Broccoli, vinegar, and lemon juice are put to the test to blunt the glycemic index...
Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load
If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated,...
Do Potatoes Shorten Your Life?
Do potato eaters live longer or shorter lives than non-potato eaters? Is there a link...
Building an Anti-Inflammatory Diet
What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like? “Intervention studies to enhance healthy ageing need appropriate...
What Foods Trigger Inflammation?
Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are...
Eating Organic: Can It Lower Your Cancer Risk?
Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? What are the effects of pesticides...
How Low Can LDL Cholesterol Go on PCSK9 Inhibitors?
People with genetic mutations that leave them with an LDL cholesterol of 30 mg/dL live...
How to Beat Heart Disease Before It Starts
Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart...
A Longer Life on Statins?
What are the pros and cons of relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat,...
The Real Benefits of Statins and Their Side Effects
A Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right...
Do Fruits and Vegetables Boost Our Mood?
A randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being. “Psychological health can be broadly conceptualized...
Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits...
Is Sorghum a Healthy Grain?
How does sorghum compare with other grains in terms of protein, antioxidants, and micronutrients? And...
An Ideal Waist Size
The book Dieting Makes You Fat was published originally in the 1980s and then repeatedly...
Exploring the Obesity Paradox
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer? Martin Luther King Jr....
Obesity’s Impacts on Our Immune System and Kidney and Liver Diseases
What are the effects of weight loss on natural killer cell function, our first line...
Obesity’s Impacts on Gallstones, Acid Reflux, and Heart Disease
Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in...
What’s the Best Weight-Loss and Disease-Prevention Diet?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the most healthful. Why are...
Irregular Meals, Night Shifts, and Metabolic Harms
What can shift workers do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption? Shift...
