Is All Vegan Food Healthy?
How do healthier plant-based diets compare to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods when it...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
“Clearly, in spite of the widely held ‘belief’ in the health benefits of M. oleifera [moringa], the interest of the international biomedical community in the medicinal potential of this plant has been rather tepid.” In fact, it has been “spectacularly...
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Irregular Meals, Night Shifts, and Metabolic Harms
What can shift workers do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption? Shift...
How Healthy Are Ancient Grains?
Ancient types of wheat, like kamut, are put to the test for inflammation, blood sugar,...
Circadian Rhythms and Our Blood Sugar Levels
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugar. We’ve...
How Safe Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting?
Eating every other day can raise your cholesterol. Are there any downsides to fasting...
Why Weight Loss Plateaus on Diets
What are the metabolic and behavioral adaptations that slow weight loss? Thanks to millions...
Keto Diets and Diabetes
Ketogenic diets are put to the test for diabetes reversal. As you can see...
Diabetes Associations Recognize Plant-Based Diets
Plant-based diets are the single most important—yet underutilized—opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced...
Fighting Inflammation and Treating Osteoarthritis with Berries
What did double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the...
What Is the Best Diet for Diabetes?
The case for plant-based eating to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger....
Does Everyone Get Health Benefits from Coffee?
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee. Three-quarters...
Can Blueberries Help with Diabetes and Repairing DNA?
Blueberries are put to the test against insulin resistance, oxidation, and DNA damage. A famous...
Can Ginger Help a Diabetic Diet?
Ground ginger and ginger tea are put to the test for blood sugar control. In...
Is Light or Dark Roast Coffee Healthier?
When it comes to reducing body weight, dark roast coffee is more effective than light...
Cheese and the Comparison Challenge
Dairy is compared to other foods for cardiovascular (heart attack and stroke) risk. When studies...
Testing Greens and Beets, Two of the Best Brain Foods
Cocoa and nitrite-rich vegetables, such as leafy greens and beets, are put to the test...
Does a Macrobiotic Diet Help with Diabetes?
What happens when you add massive amounts of carbohydrates in the form of whole grains...
Why Should (or Shouldn’t) We Eat a Macrobiotic Diet?
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed largely of whole grains, vegetables,...
A Plant-Based Workplace Wellness Program Put to the Test
What is the return on investment for educating employees about healthy eating and living? “How...
Which Diet Works Even Better the Longer You Do It?
The most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature is also one of the...
The “Optimal Diet” Is Put to the Test
The CHIP program (now called Pivio) has attempted to take the pioneering lifestyle medicine work...
Benefits of a Half Teaspoon of Brewer’s Yeast Daily
A half-teaspoon a day of brewer’s yeast is put to the test in a randomized,...
Sources of Oxidized Cholesterol
Chicken, fish, and egg powder in processed foods present greater risk from cholesterol oxidation byproducts,...
Does Coconut Oil Help with Abdominal Fat?
What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss...
