The 3 Vitamins That Prevent Brain Loss
By our seventies, one in five of us will suffer from cognitive impairment. Within five...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Lentils and chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, are put to the test. If you compared the total antioxidant content of ten different legumes, which do you think would come out on top? Researchers looked at the “pinto bean, baby...
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Big Sugar Flexes Its Muscles
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends we reduce our consumption of salt, trans fats, saturated...
What to Eat to Cure High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure ranks as the number-one risk factor for death and disability in the...
Treating Kidney Stones with Diet
Studies suggest that excessive consumption of animal protein poses a risk of kidney stone formation,...
Plant vs. Animal Iron
It is commonly thought that those who eat plant-based diets may be more prone to...
Can Oatmeal Reverse Heart Disease?
Fiber continues to be singled out as a nutrient of public health concern. We’re getting...
Best Foods for Acid Reflux
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common disorders of the digestive tract....
What Animal Protein Does in Your Colon
There’s a take-off of the industry slogan, “Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner” – “Beef: It’s...
High Blood Pressure: Normal but Not Natural
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death ever undertaken allows us to...
Antioxidant- and Folate-Rich Foods for Depression
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of all of our...
How Much Fiber Should You Eat Every Day?
High dietary fiber intake may help prevent strokes. The belief that dietary fiber intake is...
Four Ways to Improve on the Mediterranean Diet
The traditional Mediterranean diet can be considered mainly, but not exclusively, as a plant-based diet,...
What Do All the Blue Zones Have in Common?
What accounts for the benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet? An anatomy of health effects was...
What’s the Mediterranean Diet’s Secret?
The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays in both the medical literature and the...
Striving for Alkaline Pee and Acidic Poo
More than 30 years ago, an idea was put forward that high colonic pH promoted...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
Reversal of Chronic Disease Risk Even Late in Life
A hundred years ago, the New York Times reported on a rather sophisticated study for...
Do You Meet the Simple Seven?
In public health school, you learn there are three levels of preventive medicine. Primary prevention...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Up to half of Alzheimer’s cases may be attributable to just seven risk factors shown...
Are Sprouted Lentils Healthier Than Canned Lentils?
Beans, chickpeas, split peas and lentils are packed with nutrients and play a role in...
How Many Minutes of Daily Meditation to Combat Stress?
In the film The Holiday, Cameron Diaz exclaims “Severe stress … causes the DNA in...
When Charities Collaborate with the Food Industry
When the history of the world’s attempts to address obesity is written, one researcher writes,...
How to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Thirty years ago, virtually all diabetes in young individuals was thought to be autoimmune Type...
