How to Prevent Heart Disease in the Womb
The strategy of trying to prevent heart disease risk in childhood has been described as...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Are there benefits to giving yourself a bigger daily break from eating? The reason many blood tests are taken after an overnight fast is that meals can tip our system out of balance, bumping up certain biomarkers for disease,...
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Diet Can Trump the Alzheimer’s Gene ApoE
Back in the 1990s, a major susceptibility gene was discovered for Alzheimer’s, called ApoE4. If...
How to Lose Weight Eating More Food
What happens if you add fruit to your regular diet, eating three apples or pears...
What About the French Paradox?
The so-called French Paradox is a term coined back in the 1980s by three Frenchmen...
What’s Your Enterotype?
The human gut has “a diverse collection of microorganisms making up some 1,000 species, with...
Plant-Based Diets Put to the Test for Diabetes
My Why Is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes? video shows how meat may play...
The Best Diet for Depression
Depression affects more than 150 million people worldwide, making it a leading cause of losing...
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...
Knowingly and Secretly Deciding to Put the Buying Public at Risk
The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to...
What Are the Best and Worst Foods?
I’ve always pictured my role primarily as providing the latest science, but you can’t understand...
The Effect of Animal Protein on the Kidneys
Between 1990 and 2010, some of our leading causes of death and disability remained the...
Moderation Kills
What if we don’t want just low risk for a heart attack, but no risk?...
How Too Much Cholesterol Can Contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease
Millions suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and the available and foreseeable treatments are disappointing at best....
What Do the Longest Living People Eat?
The dietary guidelines recommend that we choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients...
Hope for Alzheimer’s Patients
In 1901, Auguste was taken to an insane asylum in Frankfurt, Germany, by her husband....
Boosting Moods with Foods
In my video Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity, I discuss a recent systematic...
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...
Foods to Eat to Help Prevent Diabetes
Why is meat consumption a risk factor for diabetes? Why does there appear to be...
Foods to Avoid to Help Prevent Diabetes
We’ve known that being overweight and obese are important risk factors for type 2 diabetes,...
Reversing Diabetic Blindness with Diet
Though many reported feeling better on Dr. Walter Kempner’s rice and fruit diet, he refused...
How to Treat the Root Cause of Diabetes
After about age 20, we may have all the insulin-producing beta cells we’re ever going...
Fifty Times Lower Colon Cancer Risk
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, after...
Plant vs. Animal Iron
It is commonly thought that those who eat plant-based diets may be more prone to...
How Much Nutrition Education Do Doctors Get?
In the United States, most deaths are preventable and related to nutrition. Given that the...
