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  1. Harvard’s Meat and Mortality Studies Harvard’s Meat and Mortality Studies March 14, 2012

    Monday, March 12, 2012, the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study concluded that red meat consumption was associated with living a significantly shorter life—increased cancer mortality, increased heart disease mortality, and increased overall mortality.

  2. Plant-Based Atkins Diet Plant-Based Atkins Diet February 2, 2012

    Harvard study found that men and women eating low carb diets live significantly shorter lives, but what about the “eco-Atkins diet,” a plant-based low carbohydrate diet?

  3. Resolving the Vitamin D-Bate Resolving the Vitamin D-Bate December 14, 2011

    Why the current vitamin D recommendations may be too low, other expert recommendations may be too high, and 2000 international units a day may be just right.

  4. The Difficulty of Arriving at a Vitamin D Recommendation The Difficulty of Arriving at a Vitamin D Recommendation December 12, 2011

    People respond differently to the same level of vitamin D supplementation, making it difficult to formulate one-size-fits-all guidelines.

  5. Vitamin D Supplements May Be Necessary Vitamin D Supplements May Be Necessary December 9, 2011

    To reach the circulating (25-hydroxy) vitamin D levels associated with the lowest overall mortality, one may need to take supplements, given data suggesting suboptimal production from sun even under optimal circumstances.

  1. Vitamin D and Mortality May Be a U-shaped Curve Vitamin D and Mortality May Be a U-shaped Curve December 8, 2011

    Vitamin D deficiency may shorten one’s lifespan, but getting too much vitamin D may also adversely affect longevity.

  2. Is Vitamin D the New Vitamin E? Is Vitamin D the New Vitamin E? December 7, 2011

    The Institute of Medicine’s conservative position on vitamin D is understandable given the history of hyped vitamin supplements (vitamin A, beta carotene, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E) that turned out worthless or worse.

  3. Dietary Guidelines: From Dairies to Berries Dietary Guidelines: From Dairies to Berries October 28, 2011

    The success story in Finland shows that science-based dietary guidelines can save millions of lives.

  4. The Tomato Effect The Tomato Effect October 14, 2011

    Why does the medical establishment sometimes ignore highly efficacious therapies such as plant-based diets for heart disease prevention and treatment?

  5. China Study on Sudden Cardiac Death China Study on Sudden Cardiac Death October 13, 2011

    The China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project directed by T. Colin Campbell and colleagues showed that chronic diseases such as heart disease are not inevitable consequences of aging.

  1. Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped October 12, 2011

    Dr. Dean Ornish proved decades ago that heart disease could be reversed solely with diet and lifestyle changes.

  2. Resuscitating Medicare Resuscitating Medicare October 11, 2011

    Medicare is now accepting for reimbursement the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease and the Pritikin Program, which, on a personal note, is what inspired me to go into medicine.

  3. Saffron for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Saffron for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s September 6, 2011

    In a double-blind study, the spice saffron beat out placebo in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease dementia symptoms.

  4. Is Kombucha Tea Good For You? Is Kombucha Tea Good For You? May 23, 2011

    Case reports of people ending up in a coma after drinking kombucha tea.

  5. Protein & Puberty Protein & Puberty May 4, 2011

    The type of protein young children eat at a critical age may affect when they start puberty.