Do Vegans Get More Cavities?
A diet high in saturated fat, which can clog our arteries and lead to inflammation,...
Tag: plant-based diet
A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
A tablespoon a day of ground flax seeds appears to improve ovarian function and is considered a first-line therapy for breast pain associated with one’s period (cyclical mastalgia). A study I profile in my video Flax Seeds For Breast Pain...
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Broccoli Boosts Liver Detox Enzymes
Researchers just found out that the boost in detoxifying enzymes triggered by cruciferous vegetable consumption...
Foods That May Block Cancer Formation
More than 85% of breast cancers are sporadic and attributable to long-term exposure to environmental...
Plant-Based Diets for Fibromyalgia
Millions suffer from fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by months of widespread pain, often accompanied by...
Apple Peels Turn on Anticancer Genes
A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of conventional...
Uric Acid from Meat and Sugar
Human beings lost the ability to detoxify uric acid millions of years ago. What implications...
Go Nuts for Breast Cancer Prevention
The Black Women’s Health Study, which highlighted collards and carrots, was out of Boston University....
Plant-Based Diets for Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, is a medical disorder characterized by the so-called...
Plant-Based Diets for Psoriasis
Plant-based diets appear to decrease inflammation via a variety of mechanisms, including boosting our adrenal...
98% of American Diets Potassium-Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due...
Plant-Based Diets for Multiple Sclerosis
The distinguished neurologist Roy Swank‘s low saturated fat diet remains the “most effective treatment of multiple...
Animal Protein and the Cancer Promoter IGF-1
For years we didn’t know why eating a plant-based diet appeared to so dramatically improve...
Treating an Enlarged Prostate with Diet
The majority of American men will develop a pathologically enlarged prostate gland (also known as benign prostatic...
Biblical Daniel Fast Tested
Researchers recently set out to replicate the “Daniel Fast,” the biblical nutrition trial outlined in...
Preserving Vision Through Diet
More than a million Americans are blind. The good news is that all four of...
Paula Deen: Diabetes Drug Spokesperson
The year before he died of lung cancer, actor Yul Brynner taped a commercial for...
Alzheimer’s Disease: Up to Half of Cases Potentially Preventable
November was proclaimed National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, in recognition of the five million Americans...
Dietary Guideline Graphics: From the Food Pyramid to My Plate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate
In last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Walter Willett, chair of the Department of...
Heart Disease: There Is a Cure
It was proven decades ago that heart disease could be reversed with a plant-based diet....
Inflammation, Diet, and “Vitamin S”
Last month an update was published on the intriguing suggestion that low levels of salicylic...
Vegan B12 Deficiency: Putting It Into Perspective
When CNN’s documentary The Last Heart Attack premiered—documenting Bill Clinton’s attempt to reverse his heart...
Can Antioxidant-Rich Spices Counteract the Effects of a High-Fat Meal?
In this month’s Journal of Nutrition, researchers at Penn State report on their experiment in...
The Last Heart Attack: Perfect Timing for the Launch of NutritionFacts.org
Though bumped last night due to developments in Libya, the new CNN documentary The Last...
