Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism
Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst? Excessive inflammation may play a role in a number of leading causes of death and disability, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart...
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Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective?
Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree....
What About Millet and Diabetes?
What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes...
Is Millet a Nutritious Grain?
Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to...
Does Processed Meat Affect Our Lung Function?
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured”...
Heme and Impossible Burgers
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer,...
Are Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products Good for Us?
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help control cholesterol, blood...
Potatoes: What About Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and More?
There are so many ways we eat potatoes—baked, mashed, hashed, fried, scalloped, roasted, and more—but...
Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits...
How Healthy Are the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat vs. Beef?
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in...
Why Is Sorghum One of My New Favorite Grains?
Learn why sorghum is one of my favorite new grains. “Despite playing a significant role...
An Ideal Waist Size
The book Dieting Makes You Fat was published originally in the 1980s and then repeatedly...
An Ideal BMI
Is there a unisex chart for optimal weight based on height? We seem to have...
Exploring the Obesity Paradox
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer? Martin Luther King Jr....
Obesity’s Impact on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, as well as reverse type 2...
Eating to Reverse Heart Failure
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an...
Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet?
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough? The International Journal...
The Largest Study on Fasting in the World
The Buchinger-modified fasting program is put to the test. A century ago, fasting—“starvation, as a...
Can Fasting Be Healing?
Where did the idea of therapeutic fasting come from? The story of life on Earth...
What’s the Best Weight-Loss and Disease-Prevention Diet?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the most healthful. Why are...
Is Creatine Safe and Efficient for High Homocysteine?
Those on a healthy plant-based diet who have elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin...
What About Saturated Fat and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became westernized...
Are We Polar Bears in a Jungle?
Rather than being some kind of disorder or a failure of willpower, weight gain is...
What Is the Role of Our Genes in the Obesity Epidemic?
The “fat gene” accounts for less than 1 percent of the differences in size between...
