Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Up to half of Alzheimer’s cases may be attributable to just seven risk factors shown...
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How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won
Oxidized cholesterol can be a hundred times more toxic than regular cholesterol, raising additional concerns about foods such as ghee, canned tuna, processed meat, and parmesan cheese. Too much cholesterol in the blood “has long been considered to act as...
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Dietary Estrogens and Male Fertility
In my video, The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts, I discussed the association...
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...
How to Protect Our Telomeres with Diet
In my video, Does Meditation Affect Cellular Aging?, I discussed how stress reduction through meditation...
Dioxins in U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish
Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that accumulate in tissue fat. Almost all dioxins found in...
Drugs vs. Lifestyle for Preventing Diabetes
In just one decade, the number of people with diabetes has more than doubled. According...
How to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Thirty years ago, virtually all diabetes in young individuals was thought to be autoimmune Type...
Gluten Sensitivity Put to the Test
In 1980, researchers in England reported a series of women with no evidence of celiac...
A Simple Yet Neglected Cure for Childhood Constipation
Back in the 1950s, it was suggested that some cases of constipation among children might...
The Dietary Link Between Acne and Cancer
Acne is an epidemic skin disease of industrialized countries, reaching prevalence rates of over 85 percent of...
How to Suppress the Aging Enzyme TOR
Over the last decade, more than 5,000 papers have been published about TOR, an engine-of-aging...
Making Plant-Based Diets the New Normal
A Nutritional Update for Physicians was published in the official journal of Kaiser Permanente, the...
Coca-Cola Stopped Sponsoring the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The American Dietetic Association (ADA) is the world’s largest association of nutrition professionals. They claim...
How Dark Chocolate Affects Our Arteries
Chocolate: delicious beauty or harmful beast? Or both? Although chocolate products can contain high levels...
Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
Do Walnuts Really Improve Artery Function?
Good news for nut lovers: Eating at least one serving of walnuts per week may...
How Fruits and Vegetables Can Prevent Asthma
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children and the prevalence is increasing around...
How Contaminated Are Our Children?
In a study highlighted in my video, California Childen Are Contaminated, researchers analyzed the diets...
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors and Allergies
In my video Preventing Childhood Allergies, I noted a study in Japan that found higher...
Organic Milk and Prostate Cancer
Researchers have expressed concern that since cow’s milk contains estrogens, dairy could stimulate the growth...
Foods That Fight Osteoarthritis and Inflammation
Osteoarthritis is the most frequent cause of physical disability among older adults in the world,...
The Top Three DNA Protecting Spices
In my video Which Spices Fight Inflammation? I profile a landmark study that compared the...
