High Blood Pressure: Normal but Not Natural
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death ever undertaken allows us to...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
The CHIP program (now called Pivio) has attempted to take the pioneering lifestyle medicine work of Pritikin and Ornish and spread it out into the community. England has been keeping mortality statistics since 1665 when one person was “killed by...
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Four Ways to Improve on the Mediterranean Diet
The traditional Mediterranean diet can be considered mainly, but not exclusively, as a plant-based diet,...
Benefits of Nuts for Stroke Prevention
In the PREDIMED study, from the Spanish “PREvencio ́n con DIeta MEDiterranea,” a whopping 7,447...
What’s the Optimal Cholesterol Level?
No matter where we live, how old we are or what we look like, health...
The Natural Human Diet
Our epidemics of dietary disease have prompted a great deal of research into what humans...
Flaxseeds Can Have Profound Effect on Hypertension
A recent article in the journal, Meat Science, acknowledged that a sector of the population...
What About Eating Just a Little Meat?
As you can see in my video, Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes, we’ve known for decades...
What to Eat and What to Avoid to Protect Against Kidney Cancer
58,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer every year, and 13,000 die. And the numbers...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
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...
How to Eliminate 90 Percent of Heart Disease Risk
Medical myths and dogmas die hard. Researchers creating a new body of knowledge for prevention...
Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes
It’s safe to say that Alzheimer’s disease research is in a “state of crisis.” For...
Rinse Your Mouth After Sour Foods and Drinks
Hibiscus tea has been found to be as effective at lowering blood pressure as a...
Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension
Recently, researchers from Taiwan pitted the herbal tea hibiscus against obesity. They gave hibiscus to...
Exercise as Medicine
Physical inactivity has been called the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. Of...
How Plants Can Be Both Safer and More Effective
During the last decade, the drug industry has followed an assumption that a single drug...
Salmon May Be the Greatest Source of Dietary Pollutants
In my video Diabetes and Dioxins, I explored a nationwide study that found a strong...
The Vitamin Everyone on a Plant-Based Diet Needs
A new study from China found that compared to omnivores, those who ate egg-free and...
Comparing Vegans’ Arteries to Runners’
We know from the work of Drs. Dean Ornish and Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. that...
We Can End the Heart Disease Epidemic
Many of the diseases that are common in United States are rare or even nonexistent...
Can Eating Soy Prevent Breast Cancer?
In my video, Increased Lifespan From Beans, I discuss how beans may be the single...
How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
Stopping Heart Disease in Childhood
A landmark paper in 1953 radically changed our view about the development of heart disease...
