Exercise as a Treatment for Depression
We’ve known for decades that even a single bout of exercise can elevate our mood,...
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Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?
“Early” detection is actually really late. Without mammograms, breast cancer may not be caught for an average of 22.8 years. With mammograms, though, breast cancer may only grow and spread for…21.4 years. Critics of breast cancer screening claim that, on...
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Four Ways to Improve on the Mediterranean Diet
The traditional Mediterranean diet can be considered mainly, but not exclusively, as a plant-based diet,...
What Do All the Blue Zones Have in Common?
What accounts for the benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet? An anatomy of health effects was...
The Two Most Active Ingredients of the Mediterranean Diet
Olives and nuts are plant foods, and as such, are packed with antioxidants, raising the...
Benefits of Nuts for Stroke Prevention
In the PREDIMED study, from the Spanish “PREvencio ́n con DIeta MEDiterranea,” a whopping 7,447...
The Mediterranean Diet vs. a Completely Plant-Based Diet
Recent studies have shown that higher Mediterranean diet adherence scores are associated with a significant...
What’s the Mediterranean Diet’s Secret?
The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays in both the medical literature and the...
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Dr. Greger’s New DVD Now Streaming
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Striving for Alkaline Pee and Acidic Poo
More than 30 years ago, an idea was put forward that high colonic pH promoted...
How to Prevent Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
What has driven the dramatic increase in prevalence of the inflammatory bowel disease Crohn’s disease...
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What’s the Optimal Cholesterol Level?
No matter where we live, how old we are or what we look like, health...
Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Help Reduce Brain Loss
Each of us has about six billion miles of DNA. How does our body keep...
Why Some Like Cilantro and Others Hate It
One sign of changing U.S. demographics is that salsa has replaced ketchup as America’s #1...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
Get a 2017 Daily Dozen Recipe Calendar
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Reduce Saturated Fat Intake to Protect Your Pancreas
The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and...
How a Low-Carb Diet Is Metabolically Like Being Obese
Free fatty acids (meaning fat circulating in the bloodstream not packaged into triglycerides) result in...
Fat Is the Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
Studies dating back nearly a century noted a striking finding: If you take young, healthy...
The Natural Human Diet
Our epidemics of dietary disease have prompted a great deal of research into what humans...
Medical Care: The Third Leading Cause of Death
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but a pound isn’t that...
How Well Do Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Actually Work?
One of the reasons people may undervalue diet and lifestyle changes is an overconfidence in...
Dr. Greger’s DVDs All Now in Streaming Video
Before there was NutritionFacts.org, my work existed as a series of DVDs (and before that...
