Reversing Diabetic Blindness with Diet
Though many reported feeling better on Dr. Walter Kempner’s rice and fruit diet, he refused...
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Why Healthy Fast-Food Menu Options Can Backfire
The secret to unlocking the benefits of chia seeds may be grinding them up. When recently reviewing the literature on the health-promoting properties and therapeutic applications of chia seeds, I ran into a lot of studies discussing, for example, “strategies...
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What Happened to the Rice Diet?
During his career at Duke, Dr. Walter Kempner treated more than 18,000 patients with his...
What Animal Protein Does in Your Colon
There’s a take-off of the industry slogan, “Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner” – “Beef: It’s...
How Milk May Contribute to Childhood Obesity
We’ve known that breastfed infants may be protected against obesity later in life for more than...
White Meat May Be as Cholesterol-Raising as Red
In light of recommendations for heart healthy eating from national professional organizations encouraging Americans to...
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...
Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets
Hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States every year are attributed to obesity,...
Sweet Potato Proteins vs. Cancer
Sweet potatoes can be considered a superfood. They are one of the healthiest and cheapest...
How to Treat Gout With Diet
The Washington State Fruit Commission, our largest cherry producer, can fund reviews that cherry-pick studies...
Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
How Humans Benefit from Stressed Plants
Plants live the ultimate sedentary lifestyle—most of us usually think of plants more as objects...
How a Tick Bite Can Lead to Food Allergies
In the beginning, Aristotle defined two forms of life on planet Earth: plants and animals....
Treating Asthma With Plants vs. Pills
In my video Treating Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted a landmark study on...
How Fruits and Vegetables Can Prevent Asthma
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children and the prevalence is increasing around...
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
Low Carb Diets Found to Feed Heart Disease
People going on low carb diets may not see a rise in their cholesterol levels....
Peeks Behind the Egg Industry Curtain
The American Egg Board is a promotional marketing board appointed by the U.S. government whose...
The Top Three DNA Protecting Spices
In my video Which Spices Fight Inflammation? I profile a landmark study that compared the...
How to Prevent Heart Disease
Many of today’s lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the...
Are Canned Beans as Healthy as Home-Cooked?
Beans are an essential part of any healthful diet. The federal government recommends about half...
Can Eating Soy Prevent Breast Cancer?
In my video, Increased Lifespan From Beans, I discuss how beans may be the single...
The Healthiest Diet for Weight Control
We know that vegetarians tend to be slimmer, but there’s a perception that veg diets...
How Eggs Can Impact Body Odor
I previously lampooned the egg industry PR campaign that tried to promote eggs as a...
