The Diet We Were Designed to Eat
There are three broad theories about evolution and food. One is that humans have become...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in half. In the ABCs of health consequences of obesity, G is for Gallstones. The top digestive reason people are hospitalized is a gallbladder attack. Every...
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What’s the Secret to Latino Longevity?
Latinos living in the United States tend to have “less education, a higher poverty rate, and...
Is the Risk of Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure Overblown?
By the turn of the 20th century, rickets, the vitamin D deficiency disease, was rampant,...
What Is the Optimal Vitamin D Level?
How Much Vitamin D Should We Take? If everyone took 2,000 units of vitamin D...
How Much Do Vitamin D Supplements Affect Lifespan?
Living Longer With Vitamin D? In 1822, a Polish physician was the first to publish...
Where Vitamin D Supplements Fail
The Benefits of Vitamin D As I discuss in my video Do Vitamin Supplements Help...
The Best Food for Slowing Your Resting Heart Rate
Monitoring resting heart rate has strong advantages. Taking your pulse is cheap, takes little time,...
One Heartbeat per Second to Beat the Clock
Immanuel Kant, the famed 18th century philosopher, described the chemistry of his day as a...
The Best Foods to Slow Your Metabolism
The largest component of our daily energy budget is resting metabolic rate. As I discuss...
How to Make Your Own CoQ10
Fecal Fluorescence on Meat Chlorophyll is the green pigment that makes green leaves green. If...
Is It Healthier to Be Happier?
More than 60 years ago, the World Health Organization defined health as a “state of...
The Best Diet for the Inflammation of Aging
One of the most recognized consequences of aging is a decline in immune function, illustrated...
Why Drugs and Diet Can Sometimes Fail in Diabetes
“People with type 2 diabetes are at elevated risk for a number of serious health...
“The Eskimo Myth”
As I reviewed in my video Is Fish Oil Just Snake Oil?, the revelation that...
What About the French Paradox?
The so-called French Paradox is a term coined back in the 1980s by three Frenchmen...
Even Modest Lifestyle Changes in Middle Age May Significantly Extend Your Life
In How to Reduce the Risk of Sudden Death, I discuss how public health workers...
Antioxidant Supplements Increase Mortality
In my video Industry Response to Plants Not Pills, I discuss a famous study that...
What Do the Longest Living People Eat?
The dietary guidelines recommend that we choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients...
High Blood Pressure: Normal but Not Natural
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death ever undertaken allows us to...
The Five Most Important Dietary Tweaks
Generally, adherence to healthy lifestyle patterns has decreased during the last 18 years. Obesity is...
Why Is Milk Consumption Associated with More Bone Fractures?
Milk is touted to build strong bones, but a compilation of all the best studies...
The Two Most Active Ingredients of the Mediterranean Diet
Olives and nuts are plant foods, and as such, are packed with antioxidants, raising the...
Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Help Reduce Brain Loss
Each of us has about six billion miles of DNA. How does our body keep...
Preserving Male Reproductive Health with Diet
In 1992, a controversial paper was published suggesting sperm counts have been dropping around the...
