What’s the Mediterranean Diet’s Secret?
The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays in both the medical literature and the...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine. In my book How Not to Die, I suggest we try to center our diets around whole plant foods. Some plants are healthier...
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Striving for Alkaline Pee and Acidic Poo
More than 30 years ago, an idea was put forward that high colonic pH promoted...
What’s the Optimal Cholesterol Level?
No matter where we live, how old we are or what we look like, health...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
Reduce Saturated Fat Intake to Protect Your Pancreas
The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and...
The Natural Human Diet
Our epidemics of dietary disease have prompted a great deal of research into what humans...
How May Eating Plants Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern...
Reversal of Chronic Disease Risk Even Late in Life
A hundred years ago, the New York Times reported on a rather sophisticated study for...
Are Raisins a Good Snack Choice?
Raisins, like all fruits, have a variety of health benefits, but dried fruit is higher...
Do You Meet the Simple Seven?
In public health school, you learn there are three levels of preventive medicine. Primary prevention...
Food Additives That May Make Our Gut Leaky
Crohn’s disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects more than a million Americans. It is...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
Poultry and Weight Gain
Vegetarians have considerably lower obesity rates compared to those who eat meat, but why? Is...
Introducing the Kempner Rice Diet
Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought us through the Great Depression and World War II. Who knows...
What About All the Sugar in Fruit?
If the fructose in sugar and high fructose corn syrup has been considered “alcohol without...
Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds
In the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the consumption of fruits and vegetables is crucial. Preventing...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Up to half of Alzheimer’s cases may be attributable to just seven risk factors shown...
Is Insecticidal GMO Corn Safe?
Recently, the prominent science journal Nature editorialized that we are now swimming in information about...
Fast Food Restaurants in Children’s Hospitals
The food industry spends billions on advertising. Promotion costs for individual candy bars can run...
Preserving Male Reproductive Health with Diet
In 1992, a controversial paper was published suggesting sperm counts have been dropping around the...
Why Smoothies Are Better Than Juicing
Studies such as a recent Harvard School of Public Health investigation found that the consumption...
Treating Pancreatic Cancer with Turmeric Curcumin
Pancreatic cancer is among the most aggressive forms of human cancer, characterized by a very...
Preventing Breast Cancer with Flax Seeds
I’ve previously discussed the role of dietary lignans in the reduction of breast cancer risk...
Rinse Your Mouth After Sour Foods and Drinks
Hibiscus tea has been found to be as effective at lowering blood pressure as a...
