Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective?
Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree....
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Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective?
Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing as “1-vessel disease,” “2-vessel disease,” or “left main disease.” Atherosclerotic plaque is continuous throughout the coronary arteries of heart attack...
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The Effectiveness of Angioplasty and Heart Stent Procedures
There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures...
What About Millet and Diabetes?
What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes...
Is Millet a Nutritious Grain?
Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to...
Does Processed Meat Affect Our Lung Function?
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured”...
Is There a Limit to How Many Lychee Fruit We Should Eat?
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Heme Iron and Cancer
Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about...
Heme and Impossible Burgers
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Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of...
Are Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products Good for Us?
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help control cholesterol, blood...
Potatoes: What About Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and More?
There are so many ways we eat potatoes—baked, mashed, hashed, fried, scalloped, roasted, and more—but...
Plant-Based Meats and Puberty, Obesity, and Fracture Risk
What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture...
Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits...
Celebrating Food, Activism, and Black History Month with Jenné Claiborne
We had the pleasure of talking with Jenné Claiborne about her work, food, Black History...
How Healthy Are the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat vs. Beef?
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in...
What Are the Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meats?
Environmental assessments of 50 different plant-based meats show them to be vastly more sustainable than...
Why Is Sorghum One of My New Favorite Grains?
Learn why sorghum is one of my favorite new grains. “Despite playing a significant role...
Is Sorghum a Healthy Grain?
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Ozempic (Semaglutide) and Other GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs: Their Uses, Side Effects, and More
Ozempic and others in a new class of weight-loss drugs have been called “the medical...
How Is Natural Killer Cell Function Boosted by Forest Bathing?
Can the aroma of wood essential oils replicate the immune-boosting effects of walking in a...
Forest Bathing to Boost Anticancer Immunity
Natural killer cells are one of the ways our body fights off cancer, and visiting...
Preorder The How Not to Age Cookbook
I’m thrilled to announce that pre-orders are now open for The How Not to Age...
An Ideal Waist Size
The book Dieting Makes You Fat was published originally in the 1980s and then repeatedly...
An Ideal BMI
Is there a unisex chart for optimal weight based on height? We seem to have...
