Plant-Based Diets Put to the Test for Diabetes
My Why Is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes? video shows how meat may play...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test. In the preface of my book How Not to Die, after bemoaning the fact that although Big Pharma offered me countless steak dinners during my medical training,...
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The Risks and Benefits of Calcium Supplements
There has been an assumption for decades that as a natural element, calcium supplements must...
If Calcium Supplements Aren’t Safe, What About Calcium in Food?
In 12 short years, government panels have gone from suggesting widespread calcium supplementation may be...
How to Treat Fainting
Syncope, otherwise known as fainting, is the sudden, brief loss of consciousness caused by diminished...
How Bad Is Bacon?
How many years of life are lost to potentially preventable cancers? Every year, more than...
We Are Human-Microbe Superorganisms
The microbiome revolution in medicine is beginning to uncover the underappreciated role our healthy gut...
Which Vegetables Have the Most Nitrates?
What is the optimal timing and dose of nitrate-containing vegetables? In terms of timing for...
The Risks of Fish Oil Supplements
It’s been a bad few years for fish oil, as I discuss in my video,...
What Are the Best and Worst Foods?
I’ve always pictured my role primarily as providing the latest science, but you can’t understand...
How Healthy Is the Mediterranean Diet?
The heart of a traditional Mediterranean diet is mainly vegetarian—much lower in meat and dairy...
Plant-Based Is Not the Same as Vegetarianism
Referring to heart disease, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD asks, “Why is there reticence to...
Moderation Kills
What if we don’t want just low risk for a heart attack, but no risk?...
Who’s Right in the Salt Debate?
For decades, a sometimes furious battle has raged among scientists over the extent to which...
What Do the Longest Living People Eat?
The dietary guidelines recommend that we choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients...
Best Foods for COPD and Peripheral Artery Disease
It’s great we can improve athletic performance by eating a few beets, but so what...
How to Use Canned Beets to Improve Athletic Performance
Vegetable nitrates, concentrated in green leafy vegetables and beets, underwent a great makeover a few...
Hope for Alzheimer’s Patients
In 1901, Auguste was taken to an insane asylum in Frankfurt, Germany, by her husband....
Uncovering the Early Silent Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease
In 1985, a Swiss pathologist noted Alzheimer’s disease-like changes—plaques and tangles—in the brains of about...
Why It’s Better to Drink Green Smoothies with a Straw
A group of women were split into two groups and told to eat as much...
Who Should Avoid Coffee?
Do coffee drinkers live longer than non-coffee drinkers? Is it “wake up and smell the...
What About Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
The relative paralysis of our arteries for hours after eating fast food and cheesecake may...
What a Single Fatty Meal Can Do to Our Arteries
The phenomenon of postprandial angina was described more than 200 years ago: chest pain that...
Chocolate Is Finally Put to the Test
Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants—the whole plant stuffed into a tiny seed and...
Choosing to Have a Normal Blood Pressure
For the first 90% of our evolution, humans ate diets containing less than a quarter...
