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...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
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...
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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,...
Boosting Moods with Foods
In my video Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity, I discuss a recent systematic...
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
One of the most prestigious medical journals in the world editorialized that climate change represents...
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...
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#GivingTuesday Today is Giving Tuesday, kicking off the charitable season with a celebration of giving...
Sip Smoothies Slowly
A famous study in 2000 compared the impact of soda versus jelly beans. Researchers had...
Do Smoothies Cause Overly Rapid Sugar Absorption?
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
Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors associated with an increased risk of premature death include smoking, excessive alcohol drinking, and not eating enough...
Stop Creating So Many Free Radicals in Your Colon
Colon cancer risk in Westernized populations may be reduced by decreasing animal product intake and...
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...
