Why Smoothies Are Better Than Juicing
Studies such as a recent Harvard School of Public Health investigation found that the consumption...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Arsenic is not just considered to be a carcinogen; it’s also designated as a “nonthreshold carcinogen, meaning that any dose, no matter how small, carries some cancer risk”—so there really isn’t a “safe” level of exposure. Given that, it may...
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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...
Eating Garlic and Raisins May Help Prevent Preterm Birth
The United States has one of the worst premature birth rates in the world, now...
Why Don’t More Doctors Practice Prevention?
Why don’t more doctors practice preventive cardiology? Time availability is a reason frequently cited by...
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...
A Simple Yet Neglected Cure for Childhood Constipation
Back in the 1950s, it was suggested that some cases of constipation among children might...
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...
How Learning to Cook Can Save Your Life
The eating habits of modern Americans have been described as, “eating breakfast in their cars,...
How to Reduce Your Dietary Cadmium Absorption
Cadmium is known as a highly toxic metal that represents a major hazard to human...
Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
Phytates in Beans: Anti-Nutrient or Anti-Cancer?
In my videos, Phytates in the Prevention of Cancer and Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells,...
Colon Cancer Prevention: Is It the Fiber or the Phytates?
Dietary factors are considered the most important environmental risk factors for cancer. Within recent years,...
Don’t Forget Fiber
The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt is better known for his discovery of a childhood cancer...
We Can End the Heart Disease Epidemic
Many of the diseases that are common in United States are rare or even nonexistent...
Are Canned Beans as Healthy as Home-Cooked?
Beans are an essential part of any healthful diet. The federal government recommends about half...
The Healthiest Diet for Weight Control
We know that vegetarians tend to be slimmer, but there’s a perception that veg diets...
Why Athletes Should Eat Nutritional Yeast
Does powering up at the gym also power up our immune system? Research has shown...
How to Design a Misleading Study
Imagine working for the now defunct Twinkie division of Hostess and wanting to take the...
Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival
Half a million Americans are expected to die this year from cancer, equal to five...
How to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
What happens if we give one group of kids a plate of cookies and the...
Foods for a Long Life and Love Life
Motivating patients to change poor lifestyle habits can be extremely difficult. Preventing cardiovascular events such...
