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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...
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Millions suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and the available and foreseeable treatments are disappointing at best....
Who’s Right in the Salt Debate?
For decades, a sometimes furious battle has raged among scientists over the extent to which...
How to Treat Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
The rotten egg gas, hydrogen sulfide, is one of the main malodorous compounds in human...
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In 1985, a Swiss pathologist noted Alzheimer’s disease-like changes—plaques and tangles—in the brains of about...
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The Health Effects of Heavy Metal Music
As I discussed in my video Music as Medicine, the stress-reducing effects of music appear...
Meat Is Heat: The Effects of Diet on Global Warming
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A famous study in 2000 compared the impact of soda versus jelly beans. Researchers had...
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Drinking sugar water is bad for you, as I explored in If Fructose Is Bad,...
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...
How to Maximize Nutrient Absorption
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Stop Creating So Many Free Radicals in Your Colon
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Bad Gut Flora Can Undermine Our Natural Liver Detox
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