Any Pitfalls with Restricting Calories?
How may we preserve bone and mass on a low-calorie diet? One of the...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure. It is a hopeful sign of the times when an entire issue of a...
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Sugar and Gaining Weight
The sugar industry responds to evidence implicating sweeteners in the obesity epidemic. In terms...
The New Rule for Calories per Pound of Weight Loss
You may lose a pound of fat by skipping just 10 calories a day or...
Why Weight Loss Plateaus on Diets
What are the metabolic and behavioral adaptations that slow weight loss? Thanks to millions...
Debunking the 3,500-Calorie-per-Pound Rule
How many fewer calories do you have to eat every day to lose one pound...
Keto Diets and Diabetes
Ketogenic diets are put to the test for diabetes reversal. As you can see...
Muscle Shrinkage and Bone Loss on Keto Diets?
Ketogenic diets have been found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and...
The Safety of Keto Diets
What are the effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease...
Can You Sustain Weight Loss on Ketosis?
Might the appetite-suppressing effects of ketosis improve dietary compliance? The new data are said to...
Can You Lose Weight on a Keto Diet?
Let’s dive into ketogenic diets and their $33-billion gimmick. The carbohydrate–insulin model of obesity, the...
Testing the Keto Diet Theory
Do low-carb and ketogenic diets have a metabolic advantage for weight loss? When you don’t...
Can You Lose Weight with Pills?
Studies show that many doctors either tend to overestimate the amount of weight that can...
Is It Safe to Take Weight-Loss Pills?
Why don’t more people take the weight-loss medications currently on the market? Despite the myriad...
Diabetes Associations Recognize Plant-Based Diets
Plant-based diets are the single most important—yet underutilized—opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced...
Fighting Inflammation and Treating Osteoarthritis with Berries
What did double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the...
Is Seafood Safe from Microplastic Contamination?
Can ingested plastic particles from fish get into our bloodstream? In 1869, a patent was...
What Is the Best Diet for Diabetes?
The case for plant-based eating to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger....
Does Everyone Get Health Benefits from Coffee?
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee. Three-quarters...
Does the Science Say That Butter Is Really Back?
Are butter and other saturated fats bad for you or not? My video Friday Favorites:...
How Might Ginger Help with Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease?
Ground ginger powder is put to the test for weight loss and nonalcoholic fatty liver...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia? What...
Apple Peels Put to the Test for Chronic Joint Pain
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among...
Does Coconut Oil Help with Abdominal Fat?
What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss...
Fasting for Weight Loss Infographic
Fasting has been branded the “next big weight loss fad,” and about one in seven Americans...
