Can You Eat Too Much Fruit?
In my video If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?, I explored how adding berries...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Does soy food consumption explain why Japanese women appear to be so protected from hot flash symptoms? When women hit menopause and their ovaries shut down, the estrogen level in their body drops 95 percent. This is good news for the endometrium, the lining of...
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Benefits of Oatmeal for Fatty Liver Disease
If oatmeal is so powerful that it can clear up some of the ravages of...
Does Oatmeal Lotion Work?
A review in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology notes oatmeal has been used for...
Why Is Milk Consumption Associated with More Bone Fractures?
Milk is touted to build strong bones, but a compilation of all the best studies...
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...
The Two Most Active Ingredients of the Mediterranean Diet
Olives and nuts are plant foods, and as such, are packed with antioxidants, raising the...
The Mediterranean Diet vs. a Completely Plant-Based Diet
Recent studies have shown that higher Mediterranean diet adherence scores are associated with a significant...
What’s the Mediterranean Diet’s Secret?
The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays in both the medical literature and the...
Reduce Saturated Fat Intake to Protect Your Pancreas
The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and...
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...
Flaxseeds Can Have Profound Effect on Hypertension
A recent article in the journal, Meat Science, acknowledged that a sector of the population...
Reversal of Chronic Disease Risk Even Late in Life
A hundred years ago, the New York Times reported on a rather sophisticated study for...
How to Cut Breast Cancer Risk in Half
One of my favorite cancer-specific charities, the American Institute for Cancer Research, lauds the China Study and...
Should Pregnant Women Avoid Cow’s Milk?
Foods of animal origin in general naturally contain hormones, but cow’s milk may be of...
Estrogen in Animal Products
Estrogen hormones can be thousands of times more estrogenic than typical endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Dietary exposure...
What to Eat and What to Avoid to Protect Against Kidney Cancer
58,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer every year, and 13,000 die. And the numbers...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
The Role of Caffeine in Artery Function
There are dietary guidelines for food, but what about for beverages? A Beverage Guidance Panel...
How Big Food Twists the Science
Just like mosquitos are the vectors of spread for malaria, a landmark article published recently...
Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds
In the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the consumption of fruits and vegetables is crucial. Preventing...
Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets
Hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States every year are attributed to obesity,...
