Stop Creating So Many Free Radicals in Your Colon
Colon cancer risk in Westernized populations may be reduced by decreasing animal product intake and...
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3-MCPD in Refined Cooking Oils
From a case report to a randomized controlled trial, aloe is put to the test against cancer. For a half century, aloe vera “gel processors and distributors armed with biblical quotes and anecdotal testimonials…[have sought] recognition for their products”—too often,...
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Bad Gut Flora Can Undermine Our Natural Liver Detox
Colon cancer is a leading cancer killer, yet there’s a paradox in Africa: Africans rarely...
The How Not to Die Cookbook Is Available for Preorder!
Let’s Get Cooking The How Not to Die Cookbook is now ready for pre-order! It is...
How to Treat Dry Eye Disease Naturally with Diet
One of the most common eye disorders, dry eye disease, causes irritation or discomfort, and...
Foods to Eat to Help Prevent Diabetes
Why is meat consumption a risk factor for diabetes? Why does there appear to be...
Foods to Avoid to Help Prevent Diabetes
We’ve known that being overweight and obese are important risk factors for type 2 diabetes,...
Who Should Avoid Coffee?
Do coffee drinkers live longer than non-coffee drinkers? Is it “wake up and smell the...
What About Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
The relative paralysis of our arteries for hours after eating fast food and cheesecake may...
What a Single Fatty Meal Can Do to Our Arteries
The phenomenon of postprandial angina was described more than 200 years ago: chest pain that...
Chocolate Is Finally Put to the Test
Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants—the whole plant stuffed into a tiny seed and...
Choosing to Have a Normal Blood Pressure
For the first 90% of our evolution, humans ate diets containing less than a quarter...
Boosting Brown Fat Through Diet
Until about ten years ago, brown adipose tissue (BAT) was considered to be biologically active...
Recipe Testing and the Straight Dope
Become a Recipe Tester Just a few months to go before the How Not to Die...
Brown Fat: Losing Weight Through Thermogenesis
During World War I, it was discovered that many of the chemicals for new explosives...
How Doctors Responded to Being Named a Leading Killer
In my video Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure, I profiled a paper...
Does Rye Bread Protect Against Cancer?
Previously, I’ve explored the beneficial effects of flaxseeds on prostate cancer (Flaxseeds vs. Prostate Cancer),...
Fish Consumption and Suicide
Depression is a serious and common mental disorder responsible for the majority of suicides. As...
Can Dehydration Affect Our Mood?
Water is by far the number-one nutrient in our diet. Studies have suggested that proper...
¡NutritionFacts.org en Español!
I am thrilled to announce the launch of Spanish-language NutritionFacts.org, availing hundreds of millions more...
Heart of Gold: Turmeric vs. Exercise
The endothelium is the inner lining of our blood vessels. Laid end-to-end, endothelial cells from...
Dr. Greger on Avocados and Lectins
My new DVD starts streaming today My new DVD is out today and is available as a...
How to Design a Misleading Study to Show Diet Doesn’t Work
A study out of the University of North Carolina found no association between dietary fiber...
9 out of 10 Who Die from It Never Knew They Even Had This Preventable Disease
Diverticula are out-pouchings of our intestine. Doctors like using a tire analogy: high pressures within...
The 3 Vitamins That Prevent Brain Loss
By our seventies, one in five of us will suffer from cognitive impairment. Within five...
