How Much Fiber Should You Eat Every Day?
High dietary fiber intake may help prevent strokes. The belief that dietary fiber intake is...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
I discuss why we may not want to exceed the recommended intake of protein. Diabetes isn’t just about the amount of body fat, but also the distribution of body fat. At 0:26 in my video Are BCAA (Branched-Chain Amino Acids)...
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How Exactly Does Type 2 Diabetes Develop?
Insulin resistance is the cause of both prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. Ok, so what...
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,...
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...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
How a Low-Carb Diet Is Metabolically Like Being Obese
Free fatty acids (meaning fat circulating in the bloodstream not packaged into triglycerides) result in...
Are Raisins a Good Snack Choice?
Raisins, like all fruits, have a variety of health benefits, but dried fruit is higher...
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...
Poultry and Weight Gain
Vegetarians have considerably lower obesity rates compared to those who eat meat, but why? Is...
Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets
Hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States every year are attributed to obesity,...
Dietary Estrogens and Male Fertility
In my video, The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts, I discussed the association...
Virus in Chicken Could Be Linked to Obesity
Recently, there has been research examining the connection between poultry consumption and weight gain. One...
Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension
Recently, researchers from Taiwan pitted the herbal tea hibiscus against obesity. They gave hibiscus to...
When Charities Collaborate with the Food Industry
When the history of the world’s attempts to address obesity is written, one researcher writes,...
How to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Thirty years ago, virtually all diabetes in young individuals was thought to be autoimmune Type...
Hummus for a Healthy Heart
I’ve talked previously about the anti-diabetic and anti-obesity effects of various phytonutrients in beans, but...
How a Gluten-Free Diet Can Be Harmful
Until only a few years ago, almost the whole of the scientific world maintained that...
The Dietary Link Between Acne and Cancer
Acne is an epidemic skin disease of industrialized countries, reaching prevalence rates of over 85 percent of...
Which Works Better: Adding Beans or Portion Control?
People who eat the most legumes appear to only have a fraction of the risk...
Making Plant-Based Diets the New Normal
A Nutritional Update for Physicians was published in the official journal of Kaiser Permanente, the...
Coffee for Hepatitis C
Decades ago, researchers in Norway came upon an unexpected finding. Alcohol consumption was associated with...
