How to Design a Misleading Study to Show Diet Doesn’t Work
A study out of the University of North Carolina found no association between dietary fiber...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Dinosaur kale and red cabbage are put to the test. LDL cholesterol is bad, but oxidized LDL may be even worse. What role might our diet play? “Increased fruit and vegetable consumption has been reported to reduce the risk of...
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Reversing Diabetic Blindness with Diet
Though many reported feeling better on Dr. Walter Kempner’s rice and fruit diet, he refused...
Big Sugar Flexes Its Muscles
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends we reduce our consumption of salt, trans fats, saturated...
What to Eat to Cure High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure ranks as the number-one risk factor for death and disability in the...
Treating Kidney Stones with Diet
Studies suggest that excessive consumption of animal protein poses a risk of kidney stone formation,...
Should Cancer Patients Avoid Raw Fruits and Vegetables?
Back in the 1960s, a patient isolator unit was developed for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy....
How Much Water Should We Drink Every Day?
More than 2000 years ago Hippocrates (460–377 BCE) said, “If we could give every individual...
Best Foods for Acid Reflux
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common disorders of the digestive tract....
What Happened to the Rice Diet?
During his career at Duke, Dr. Walter Kempner treated more than 18,000 patients with his...
The Best Diet to Prevent Kidney Stones
In my video How to Prevent Kidney Stones with Diet, you can see what the...
Are the Benefits of Organic Food Underrated or Overrated?
Pesticides have been classified as probable carcinogens for 25 years. Different pesticides have been associated...
The Best Way to Wash Fruit and Vegetables
How might we reduce our exposure to pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables? What about...
Organic vs. Conventional: Which Has More Nutrients?
Are organic foods safer and healthier than conventional alternatives? Those are two separate questions. Some...
What Animal Protein Does in Your Colon
There’s a take-off of the industry slogan, “Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner” – “Beef: It’s...
High Blood Pressure: Normal but Not Natural
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death ever undertaken allows us to...
Antioxidant- and Folate-Rich Foods for Depression
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of all of our...
The Five Most Important Dietary Tweaks
Generally, adherence to healthy lifestyle patterns has decreased during the last 18 years. Obesity is...
Can You Eat Too Much Fruit?
In my video If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?, I explored how adding berries...
Benefits of Oatmeal for Fatty Liver Disease
If oatmeal is so powerful that it can clear up some of the ravages of...
What Not to Add to White Rice, Potatoes, or Pasta
Rice currently feeds almost half the human population, making it the single most important staple...
Four Ways to Improve on the Mediterranean Diet
The traditional Mediterranean diet can be considered mainly, but not exclusively, as a plant-based diet,...
What Do All the Blue Zones Have in Common?
What accounts for the benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet? An anatomy of health effects was...
Benefits of Nuts for Stroke Prevention
In the PREDIMED study, from the Spanish “PREvencio ́n con DIeta MEDiterranea,” a whopping 7,447...
The Mediterranean Diet vs. a Completely Plant-Based Diet
Recent studies have shown that higher Mediterranean diet adherence scores are associated with a significant...
