How to Get Parents to Eat Their Vegetables
Changing the name of healthy foods can have a significant impact on children’s eating habits...
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Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding
As I discuss in my video How to Treat Heart Failure and Kidney Failure with Diet, one way a diet rich in animal-sourced foods like meat, eggs, and cheese may contribute to heart disease, stroke, and death is through the...
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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...
Is Noni or Mangosteen Juice Safe?
There is now another case report of acute toxicity linked to noni juice ingestion, this...
Should Carrageenan Be Avoided?
Six hundred years ago, people living along the coast of Carragheen County Ireland started using...
Treating Menstrual Pain with Diet
Almost half of menstruating women experience painful, crampy periods, also known as dysmenorrhea. According to...
Cayenne for Irritable Bowel
Nearly 50 million Americans come down with food poisoning every year. Over a hundred thousand...
Natural Treatment for Cluster Headaches
In a study “Secretion, Pain and Sneezing Induced by the Application of Capsaicin to the...
Dr. Greger’s New Nutrition DVD Now Available
The newest volume of my Latest in Clinical Nutrition DVD series is now out. Order...
Foods with Natural Melatonin
We know that inadequate sleeping is associated with changes in diet—people tend to eat worse—but...
Two Kiwifruit an Hour Before Bedtime
The number one question in sleep research is “Why do we sleep?” followed by the...
