Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet
What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart attack, while drugs may only reduce risk by 20% to 30%? On the standard American diet, atherosclerosis—hardening of the arteries, the number one killer of...
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Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding
Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable...
Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?
Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients...
Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only...
The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote...
Heart Stents and Their Risks
Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How...
The Effectiveness of Angioplasty and Heart Stent Procedures
There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures...
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,...
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...
An Ideal BMI
Is there a unisex chart for optimal weight based on height? We seem to have...
Obesity’s Impacts on Gallstones, Acid Reflux, and Heart Disease
Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in...
The Best Alternative to Knee Replacement for Osteoarthritis
Is there a non-surgical alternative to knee replacement surgery that treats the cause and offers...
Cannabis, Strokes, and Heart Attacks?
The temporary quintupling of heart attack risk associated with cannabis smoking may be due to...
Eating to Reverse Heart Failure
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an...
Cannabis and Cars
Did traffic fatalities increase or decrease after cannabis legalization? Is cannabis-impaired driving a public health...
Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet?
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough? The International Journal...
Is Creatine Safe and Efficient for High Homocysteine?
Those on a healthy plant-based diet who have elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin...
Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine in Vegetarians?
What are the consequences of having to make your creatine rather than relying on dietary...
Testing for Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin...
What About Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Not taking vitamin B12 supplements or regularly eating B12-fortified foods may explain the higher stroke...
What About Animal Protein and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity? ...
What About Saturated Fat and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became westernized...
