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Ideal vs. Normal Cholesterol Levels

Learn about this community-based education program informing physicians and patients alike about the power of nutrition as medicine. “The best kept secret in medicine is that, given the right milieu”—the right conditions—“the body heals itself, and “[w]hen it comes to...

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January 18, 2018

Who’s Right in the Salt Debate?

For decades, a sometimes furious battle has raged among scientists over the extent to which...

January 16, 2018

How to Treat Ulcerative Colitis with Diet

The rotten egg gas, hydrogen sulfide, is one of the main malodorous compounds in human...

January 11, 2018

What Do the Longest Living People Eat?

The dietary guidelines recommend that we choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients...

January 9, 2018

Best Foods for COPD and Peripheral Artery Disease

It’s great we can improve athletic performance by eating a few beets, but so what...

January 4, 2018

Dr. Greger on Mammograms

Thank You for Your Support We just wrapped up our end-of-year donation drive. As you know,...

December 28, 2017

How to Use Canned Beets to Improve Athletic Performance

Vegetable nitrates, concentrated in green leafy vegetables and beets, underwent a great makeover a few...

December 26, 2017

Hope for Alzheimer’s Patients

In 1901, Auguste was taken to an insane asylum in Frankfurt, Germany, by her husband....

December 21, 2017

Support NutritionFacts.org

Do you appreciate my work? There are some people who will never change, and God...

December 19, 2017

Uncovering the Early Silent Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

In 1985, a Swiss pathologist noted Alzheimer’s disease-like changes—plaques and tangles—in the brains of about...

December 14, 2017

In Late Pregnancy Moderate the Intake of Powerful Anti-inflammatory Foods

The right side of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs,...

December 12, 2017

Boosting Moods with Foods

In my video Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity, I discuss a recent systematic...

December 7, 2017

The Health Effects of Heavy Metal Music

As I discussed in my video Music as Medicine, the stress-reducing effects of music appear...

December 5, 2017

Meat Is Heat: The Effects of Diet on Global Warming

One of the most prestigious medical journals in the world editorialized that climate change represents...

November 30, 2017

Why It’s Better to Drink Green Smoothies with a Straw

A group of women were split into two groups and told to eat as much...

November 28, 2017

Get a How Not to Die Cookbook Calendar & CME Credits

#GivingTuesday Today is Giving Tuesday, kicking off the charitable season with a celebration of giving...

November 23, 2017

Sip Smoothies Slowly

A famous study in 2000 compared the impact of soda versus jelly beans. Researchers had...

November 21, 2017

Do Smoothies Cause Overly Rapid Sugar Absorption?

Drinking sugar water is bad for you, as I explored in If Fructose Is Bad,...

November 16, 2017

Why Intact Grains Are Even Better Than Whole Grains

Fruits and vegetables are the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, and dark green leafy...

November 14, 2017

How to Maximize Nutrient Absorption

Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors associated with an increased risk of premature death include smoking, excessive alcohol drinking, and not eating enough...