Can Oatmeal Reverse Heart Disease?
Fiber continues to be singled out as a nutrient of public health concern. We’re getting...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
I discuss the best and worst foods for gum inflammation and bad breath. Yes, saturated fats produce an inflammatory response, and, yes, inflammation is “recognized as one of the key underlying etiologic [causal] factors in periodontal disease.” That could explain...
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High Blood Pressure: Normal but Not Natural
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death ever undertaken allows us to...
How to Prevent a Heart Attack
In my video Arterial Acne, I described atherosclerotic plaques as inflamed pockets of pus. Our coronary...
How Much Fiber Should You Eat Every Day?
High dietary fiber intake may help prevent strokes. The belief that dietary fiber intake is...
White Meat May Be as Cholesterol-Raising as Red
In light of recommendations for heart healthy eating from national professional organizations encouraging Americans to...
Benefits of Oatmeal for Fatty Liver Disease
If oatmeal is so powerful that it can clear up some of the ravages of...
Benefits of Nuts for Stroke Prevention
In the PREDIMED study, from the Spanish “PREvencio ́n con DIeta MEDiterranea,” a whopping 7,447...
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 Optimal Cholesterol Level?
No matter where we live, how old we are or what we look like, health...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
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...
Do You Meet the Simple Seven?
In public health school, you learn there are three levels of preventive medicine. Primary prevention...
How to Design Saturated Fat Studies to Hide the Truth
Where do the international consensus guidelines to dramatically lower saturated fat consumption come from? (I...
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...
Introducing the Kempner Rice Diet
Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought us through the Great Depression and World War II. Who knows...
Preventing and Treating Low Back Pain with Diet
Low back pain became one of the biggest problems for public health systems in the...
How to Eliminate 90 Percent of Heart Disease Risk
Medical myths and dogmas die hard. Researchers creating a new body of knowledge for prevention...
Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds
In the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the consumption of fruits and vegetables is crucial. Preventing...
Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes
It’s safe to say that Alzheimer’s disease research is in a “state of crisis.” For...
Fast Food Restaurants in Children’s Hospitals
The food industry spends billions on advertising. Promotion costs for individual candy bars can run...
