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...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Back in the early 1980s, a pathologist in Florida suggested that the reason premenopausal women are protected from heart disease is that they have lower stores of iron in their body. Since oxidized cholesterol is “important in atherosclerosis, and oxidation...
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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...
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...
Does Antioxidant Intake Matter for Stroke and Heart Disease?
In my video Food Antioxidants and Cancer, I talked about how antioxidants from whole plants...
Peeks Behind the Egg Industry Curtain
The American Egg Board is a promotional marketing board appointed by the U.S. government whose...
What’s Driving America’s Obesity Problem?
Currently, nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight. By 2030 it is estimated more than half...
Food Manufacturers Get to Decide If Their Own Additives Are Safe
In 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced their plans to all but eliminate...
The Reversal on Fish Oil
Are the purported benefits of fish oil supplementation for the prevention and treatment of heart...
Are Multivitamins Just a Waste of Money?
About one in three Americans take a multivitamin. Is that helpful, harmful, or just a...
Understanding Lifestyle Medicine From the Heart
I talk a lot about numbers and statistics, but as the Director of Yale’s Prevention...
Don’t Forget Fiber
The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt is better known for his discovery of a childhood cancer...
The Top Four Anti-Inflammatory Spices
Once in a while I come across a study that’s so juicy I have to...
Foods for Macular Degeneration
Anyone who has gotten a bad sunburn knows how damaging the UV rays in sunlight...
The Vitamin Everyone on a Plant-Based Diet Needs
A new study from China found that compared to omnivores, those who ate egg-free and...
Comparing Vegans’ Arteries to Runners’
We know from the work of Drs. Dean Ornish and Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. that...
We Can End the Heart Disease Epidemic
Many of the diseases that are common in United States are rare or even nonexistent...
How to Prevent Heart Disease
Many of today’s lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the...
Phosphate Additives in Chicken Banned Elsewhere
In my video Phosphate Additives in Meat Purge and Cola, I talked about the danger...
What Do Meat Purge and Cola Have in Common?
In my video, Treating Kidney Failure Through Diet, I profiled research suggesting that the use...
Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
Why the Egg-Cancer Link?
Two million men in the U.S. are living with prostate cancer — but that’s better...
How Eggs Can Impact Body Odor
I previously lampooned the egg industry PR campaign that tried to promote eggs as a...
