How to Prevent Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
What has driven the dramatic increase in prevalence of the inflammatory bowel disease Crohn’s disease...
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Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods. Whenever I’m asked at a lecture whether a specific food is healthy or not, my reply...
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What’s the Optimal Cholesterol Level?
No matter where we live, how old we are or what we look like, health...
Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Help Reduce Brain Loss
Each of us has about six billion miles of DNA. How does our body keep...
Why Some Like Cilantro and Others Hate It
One sign of changing U.S. demographics is that salsa has replaced ketchup as America’s #1...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
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Reduce Saturated Fat Intake to Protect Your Pancreas
The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and...
How a Low-Carb Diet Is Metabolically Like Being Obese
Free fatty acids (meaning fat circulating in the bloodstream not packaged into triglycerides) result in...
Fat Is the Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
Studies dating back nearly a century noted a striking finding: If you take young, healthy...
The Natural Human Diet
Our epidemics of dietary disease have prompted a great deal of research into what humans...
Medical Care: The Third Leading Cause of Death
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but a pound isn’t that...
How Well Do Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Actually Work?
One of the reasons people may undervalue diet and lifestyle changes is an overconfidence in...
Dr. Greger’s DVDs All Now in Streaming Video
Before there was NutritionFacts.org, my work existed as a series of DVDs (and before that...
Flaxseeds Can Have Profound Effect on Hypertension
A recent article in the journal, Meat Science, acknowledged that a sector of the population...
How May Eating Plants Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern...
How Turmeric Can Help Combat the Effects of Sitting
The average American spends most of their waking life sitting down, which is associated with...
Can Peppermint Improve Athletic Performance?
Ever since smoking was prohibited in night clubs, customers have increasingly noticed other unpleasant smells...
Reversal of Chronic Disease Risk Even Late in Life
A hundred years ago, the New York Times reported on a rather sophisticated study for...
Are Raisins a Good Snack Choice?
Raisins, like all fruits, have a variety of health benefits, but dried fruit is higher...
What About Eating Just a Little Meat?
As you can see in my video, Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes, we’ve known for decades...
Do You Meet the Simple Seven?
In public health school, you learn there are three levels of preventive medicine. Primary prevention...
How to Design Saturated Fat Studies to Hide the Truth
Where do the international consensus guidelines to dramatically lower saturated fat consumption come from? (I...
Butter Is Back?
Time magazine’s cover exhorting people to eat butter could be viewed as a desperate attempt...
