Is the Risk of Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure Overblown?
By the turn of the 20th century, rickets, the vitamin D deficiency disease, was rampant,...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease. How does nutrition affect periodontal disease? First, what is it? “Periodontal disease is a bacterial infection that results in inflammatory destruction of the connective tissue and bone...
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How to Avoid Fatty Liver Disease
In the documentary Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock eats exclusively at McDonald’s for a month and...
Best Diet for Diabetic Neuropathy
Neuropathy, or damage to the nerves, is a debilitating disorder, and diabetes is by far...
How to Improve Artery Function
Endothelial dysfunction is the initial step in the development of peripheral artery disease, heart disease,...
What Happens If You Add Milk to Tea?
Our endothelium, the inner lining of our blood vessels that controls the function of every...
How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes reversal, not just treatment, should be a goal in the management of type 2...
Plant vs. Animal Food Purines for Preventing Gout
More than 2,000 years ago, “Hippocrates described gout as a disease of kings primarily because...
How to Treat Infant Colic
Colic, characterized by prolonged periods of inconsolable crying, affects up to 40 percent of young...
What About the French Paradox?
The so-called French Paradox is a term coined back in the 1980s by three Frenchmen...
Were We Wrong About Fiber?
In my video Is the Fiber Theory Wrong?, I present that fiber-containing foods may not...
Change Your Diet; Change Your Microbiome
If whatever gut flora enterotype we are could play an important role in our risk...
The Risks and Benefits of Calcium Supplements
There has been an assumption for decades that as a natural element, calcium supplements must...
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...
The Effect of Animal Protein on the Kidneys
Between 1990 and 2010, some of our leading causes of death and disability remained the...
How Healthy Is the Mediterranean Diet?
The heart of a traditional Mediterranean diet is mainly vegetarian—much lower in meat and dairy...
How to Treat Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
The rotten egg gas, hydrogen sulfide, is one of the main malodorous compounds in human...
What Do the Longest Living People Eat?
The dietary guidelines recommend that we choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients...
Boosting Moods with Foods
In my video Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity, I discuss a recent systematic...
Meat Is Heat: The Effects of Diet on Global Warming
One of the most prestigious medical journals in the world editorialized that climate change represents...
Does Rye Bread Protect Against Cancer?
Previously, I’ve explored the beneficial effects of flaxseeds on prostate cancer (Flaxseeds vs. Prostate Cancer),...
Plant-Based Diets as the Nutritional Equivalent of Quitting Smoking
Despite the most widely accepted and well-established chronic disease practice guidelines uniformly calling for lifestyle...
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...
What to Eat to Cure High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure ranks as the number-one risk factor for death and disability in the...
