How Fruits and Vegetables Can Treat Asthma
In my video Preventing Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted an international study of...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well? Legumes—all kinds of beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—are “an excellent source of many essential nutrients, including vitamins, minerals,...
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Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
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...
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...
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...
How to Prevent Heart Disease
Many of today’s lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the...
Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
Can Eating Soy Prevent Breast Cancer?
In my video, Increased Lifespan From Beans, I discuss how beans may be the single...
The Healthiest Diet for Weight Control
We know that vegetarians tend to be slimmer, but there’s a perception that veg diets...
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...
How to Design a Misleading Study
Imagine working for the now defunct Twinkie division of Hostess and wanting to take the...
How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
How to Treat Multiple Sclerosis with Diet
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable and frightening degenerative autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous...
Stopping Heart Disease in Childhood
A landmark paper in 1953 radically changed our view about the development of heart disease...
Pistachios May Help Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is a major cause of decreased quality of life in men—so much so...
Pills vs. Diet for Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is the recurrent or persistent inability to attain and/or maintain an erection in...
Preloading with Watercress Before Exercise
Could exercise be creating harmful free radicals? Oxidizing glucose to produce energy for our bodies...
