Dietary Estrogens and Male Fertility
In my video, The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts, I discussed the association...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
What happens when you add massive amounts of carbohydrates in the form of whole grains to the daily diet of people with type 2 diabetes? Why are macrobiotic diets apparently so effective at reducing blood sugar levels in diabetics within...
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Why Smoothies Are Better Than Juicing
Studies such as a recent Harvard School of Public Health investigation found that the consumption...
Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension
Recently, researchers from Taiwan pitted the herbal tea hibiscus against obesity. They gave hibiscus to...
How to Treat Prediabetes with Diet
For people with prediabetes, lifestyle modification is considered “the cornerstone of diabetes prevention.” Diet-wise, this...
Egg Consumption and LDL Cholesterol Size
Maria Fernandez has received nearly a half million dollars from the egg industry and writes...
How to Protect Our Telomeres with Diet
In my video, Does Meditation Affect Cellular Aging?, I discussed how stress reduction through meditation...
Four Brazil Nuts Once a Month…
One of the craziest studies I read all year involved feeding people a single serving...
The Effects of Dietary Cholesterol on Blood Cholesterol
Blood cholesterol levels are clearly increased by eating dietary cholesterol. In other words, putting cholesterol...
Why Don’t More Doctors Practice Prevention?
Why don’t more doctors practice preventive cardiology? Time availability is a reason frequently cited by...
Hummus for a Healthy Heart
I’ve talked previously about the anti-diabetic and anti-obesity effects of various phytonutrients in beans, but...
The #1 Dietary Risk Factor Is Not Eating Enough Fruit
The Global Burden of Disease Study published in 2012, is the most comprehensive and systematic...
Bile Binding Beets
In my video Breast Cancer and Constipation, I discussed how fruits and veggies bind carcinogenic...
Bile Acids and Breast Cancer
Why do constipated women appear to be at higher risk for breast cancer? The results...
Making Plant-Based Diets the New Normal
A Nutritional Update for Physicians was published in the official journal of Kaiser Permanente, the...
How Learning to Cook Can Save Your Life
The eating habits of modern Americans have been described as, “eating breakfast in their cars,...
Where Are the Lowest Rates of Alzheimer’s in the World?
The rates of dementia differ greatly around the world, from the lowest rates in Africa,...
Why Some Dietary Cholesterol Studies Fail to Show Harm
How else can we make decisions for ourselves and our families but by the best...
Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
What Do Eggs Do To Our Arteries?
In reaction to the study that found a similar exponential increase in artery clogging plaque...
Dietary Cholesterol Affects Blood Cholesterol Levels
In my video, Eggs vs. Cigarettes in Atherosclerosis, I profiled a study showing that both...
Do Walnuts Really Improve Artery Function?
Good news for nut lovers: Eating at least one serving of walnuts per week may...
Do Cholesterol Statin Drugs Cause Breast Cancer?
What does breast cancer have to do with cholesterol? There are many potential mechanisms by...
Breast Cancer Cells Feed on Cholesterol
One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. There...
Using Diet to Treat Asthma and Eczema
I previously discussed the power of fruits and vegetables to help prevent and treat asthma...
