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Healthy Holiday Recipe Collection
Happy Holidays from the NutritionFacts team! We are excited to share this collection of some of our favorite green-light holiday dishes. These comforting and delicious recipes are packed with wholesome, nourishing ingredients that can be found at most grocery stores....
Help Fill the Carrot to Support My Work
Today is the start of our annual end-of-year fundraising drive. Year after year, more than half of our entire annual operating budget has been raised around these final few weeks of the year. For the third year in a row,...
Salivary Gland Tumors from Cell Phone Use?
What effect does mobile phone radiation have on your parotid gland? That’s the topic of my video Do Cell Phones Cause Salivary Gland Tumors?. A summary of studies found no acute effects of cell phone radiation, such as nausea, headaches,...
What Is the Best Food for Labor and Delivery?
Can a humble fruit shorten labor time by hours and with less induction and less postpartum bleeding? A randomized, controlled trial of hundreds of pregnant women found that having women eat around six dates a day for a few weeks...
What Is the Best Food for the End of Pregnancy?
Dates, edible sweet fruits, are put to the test in a randomized, controlled trial for cervical ripening. In the 19th chapter of the Koran, Mary is giving birth to Jesus. I didn't even know Jesus was in the Koran. The...
Does a Macrobiotic Diet Help with Diabetes?
What happens when you add massive amounts of carbohydrates in the form of whole grains to the daily diet of people with type 2 diabetes? Why are macrobiotic diets apparently so effective at reducing blood sugar levels in diabetics within...
Why Should (or Shouldn’t) We Eat a Macrobiotic Diet?
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed largely of whole grains, vegetables, and beans? The American Medical Association has described macrobiotic diets as “one of the most dangerous dietary regimens, posing not only serious hazards to the...
Our Black Friday Sale Is on Now!
Add some green to your Black Friday with 20 percent off all merchandise on DrGreger.org. The sale is site-wide, so it includes all clothing, video downloads, outreach materials, and more. If you’re heading into winter, cozy up with our sweatpants...
