How Much Fiber Should You Eat Every Day?
High dietary fiber intake may help prevent strokes. The belief that dietary fiber intake is...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine. In my book How Not to Die, I suggest we try to center our diets around whole plant foods. Some plants are healthier...
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Can You Eat Too Much Fruit?
In my video If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?, I explored how adding berries...
How May Eating Plants Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern...
What About All the Sugar in Fruit?
If the fructose in sugar and high fructose corn syrup has been considered “alcohol without...
Eating Garlic and Raisins May Help Prevent Preterm Birth
The United States has one of the worst premature birth rates in the world, now...
The #1 Dietary Risk Factor Is Not Eating Enough Fruit
The Global Burden of Disease Study published in 2012, is the most comprehensive and systematic...
Treating Asthma With Plants vs. Pills
In my video Treating Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted a landmark study on...
Slowing Cognitive Decline with Berries
A plant-based diet is thought to have played a significant role in human evolution and...
Does Antioxidant Intake Matter for Cancer?
The USDA removed their online antioxidant database of foods, “concerned that ORAC values were routinely misused...
Foods for Computer Eye Strain
What happens to our eyesight when we sit in front of a computer all day?...
Boosting Anticancer Immunity with Berries
For disease prevention and health maintenance, berries of all colors have “emerged as champions.” Research...
Add Beans, Berries, and Greens to More Meals
After we eat, our bodies create free radicals in the process of breaking down our...
How to Get Enough Antioxidants Each Day
We need to get a daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day in our...
How to Boost the Benefits of Exercise
We all know exercise is beneficial to our health. Then why is it that ultramarathon...
Berries to Prevent Muscle Soreness
The burning sensation during strenuous exercise may be related to the build-up of lactic acid...
Foods with Natural Melatonin
We know that inadequate sleeping is associated with changes in diet—people tend to eat worse—but...
Can We Fight the Blues with Greens?
Why does frequent consumption of vegetables appear to cut one’s odds of depression by more...
Starving Tumors of Their Blood Supply
About a third of common cancers may be prevented by eating a healthy, plant-based diet;...
Strawberries Can Reverse Precancerous Progression
In my last two posts, Which Fruit is Best at Fighting Cancer? and Anti-Cancer Nutrient...
Which Common Fruit Fights Cancer Better?
Recently, researchers compared the ability of eleven common fruits to suppress cancer cell growth in...
Flax and Breast Cancer Prevention
Just a teaspoon of ground flaxseeds a day may help protect against breast cancer. In...
Hibiscus Tea: The Best Beverage?
A landmark investigation of the Antioxidant Content of 3,139 Foods put all previous rankings to...
Treating Parkinson’s Disease with Diet
Caffeine consumption appears to help prevent Parkinson’s, but what if you already have the condition?...
Coffee Caveats
Last month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, an editorial entitled “Coffee consumption and...
