Three Brands of Nutritional Yeast Contain Detectable Lead Levels But the Risk is Minimal
Note from Dr. Greger: In short, we found detectable amounts of lead in samples of...
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Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to a Longer Life?
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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Dioxins Stored in Our Own Fat May Increase Diabetes Risk
Finding higher diabetes rates among those heavily exposed to toxic pollutants—such as those exposed to...
Why Would Eating Fish Increase Diabetes Risk?
In the past two years, six separate meta-analyses have been published on the relationship between...
Why Deep Fried Foods May Cause Cancer
In the latest study on dietary patterns and breast cancer risk among women, healthier eating...
Do Cholesterol Statin Drugs Cause Breast Cancer?
What does breast cancer have to do with cholesterol? There are many potential mechanisms by...
Breast Cancer Cells Feed on Cholesterol
One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. There...
Using Diet to Treat Asthma and Eczema
I previously discussed the power of fruits and vegetables to help prevent and treat asthma...
Treating Asthma With Plants vs. Pills
In my video Treating Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted a landmark study on...
How Fruits and Vegetables Can Treat Asthma
In my video Preventing Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted an international study of...
How Fruits and Vegetables Can Prevent Asthma
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children and the prevalence is increasing around...
Our Tax Dollars Subsidize Unhealthy Foods
Why do food companies sell junk? Because unhealthy commodities are highly profitable. This is in...
Reducing Arsenic in Chicken and Rice
In 2013, Maryland became the first state to ban the feeding of an arsenic-containing drug...
How Contaminated Are Our Children?
In a study highlighted in my video, California Childen Are Contaminated, researchers analyzed the diets...
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
Exploiting Autophagy to Live Longer
Thanks to advances in modern medicine, we are living longer lives, but we’re doing it...
New DVD Reviews Best Bowel Movement Science
Of all human bodily functions, defecation has been described as perhaps the least studied and...
Blood Type Diet Perceived as “Crass Fraud”
It was Adolf Hitler who coined a propaganda technique he called, “The Big Lie,” arguing...
Why Do Heart Doctors Favor Surgery and Drugs Over Diet?
When he was a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. published a...
Phytates in Beans: Anti-Nutrient or Anti-Cancer?
In my videos, Phytates in the Prevention of Cancer and Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells,...
How Phytates Fight Cancer Cells
Phytate is a compound found in beans, grains, nuts and seeds. The average daily intake...
Colon Cancer Prevention: Is It the Fiber or the Phytates?
Dietary factors are considered the most important environmental risk factors for cancer. Within recent years,...
Low Carb Diets Found to Feed Heart Disease
People going on low carb diets may not see a rise in their cholesterol levels....
Nuts May Extend Your Lifespan by About 2 Years
We’ve known that increased nut consumption has been associated with a reduced risk of major...
How Curry Can Kill Cancer Cells
It is estimated that the human body consists of ten or so trillion cells. Almost...
