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Health & Nutrition

Consequences of Prostate Cancer Treatment

A cancer diagnosis is seen as a teachable moment in medicine where we can try to get people to eat healthier, but “research has suggested that male cancer patients may be reluctant to introduce dietary modification…This has been attributed to...
Health & Nutrition

Cancer-Causing Caramel Color

Caramel coloring may be the most widely consumed food coloring in the world.  Unfortunately, its manufacture can sometimes lead to the formation of a carcinogen called methylimidazole, which was identified as a cancer-causing chemical in 2007. For the purposes of...
Health & Nutrition

What to Feed Your Gut Bacteria

For many years, it was believed that the main function of the large intestine was just to absorb water and dispose of waste, but “[n]owadays it is clear that the complex microbial ecosystem in our intestines should be considered as...
Eating Guide
Health & Nutrition

New Eating Guide Now in Print

In January we launched the Evidence-Based Eating Guide, which is available for free download here. Today I'm excited to announce that you can now order hard copies of the guide at-cost over on DrGreger.org. The guide is a run-down of...
Health & Nutrition

White Rice vs. Brown Rice

In 2012, a meta-analysis was published tying white rice consumption to diabetes, especially in Asian countries. Even in the United States, where we eat much less white rice, research shows the regular consumption of white rice was associated with higher...

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