What About the French Paradox?
The so-called French Paradox is a term coined back in the 1980s by three Frenchmen...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
There is unequivocal evidence that regular cannabis smoking causes acute lung inflammation, but what are the long-term consequences? “There is unequivocal evidence that habitual or regular marijuana smoking is not harmless and causes respiratory symptoms and airway inflammation.” As you...
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How Much Proof Do We Need to Eat Healthier?
Randomized placebo-controlled trials are considered the gold standard of scientific evidence. In such studies, half...
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...
Knowingly and Secretly Deciding to Put the Buying Public at Risk
The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to...
What Do the Longest Living People Eat?
The dietary guidelines recommend that we choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients...
How to Maximize Nutrient Absorption
Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors associated with an increased risk of premature death include smoking, excessive alcohol drinking, and not eating enough...
Plant-Based Diets as the Nutritional Equivalent of Quitting Smoking
Despite the most widely accepted and well-established chronic disease practice guidelines uniformly calling for lifestyle...
How to Treat the Root Cause of Diabetes
After about age 20, we may have all the insulin-producing beta cells we’re ever going...
Fifty Times Lower Colon Cancer Risk
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, after...
How Much Water Should We Drink Every Day?
More than 2000 years ago Hippocrates (460–377 BCE) said, “If we could give every individual...
Best Foods for Acid Reflux
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common disorders of the digestive tract....
Are the Benefits of Organic Food Underrated or Overrated?
Pesticides have been classified as probable carcinogens for 25 years. Different pesticides have been associated...
The Five Most Important Dietary Tweaks
Generally, adherence to healthy lifestyle patterns has decreased during the last 18 years. Obesity is...
Benefits of Oatmeal for Fatty Liver Disease
If oatmeal is so powerful that it can clear up some of the ravages of...
The Mediterranean Diet vs. a Completely Plant-Based Diet
Recent studies have shown that higher Mediterranean diet adherence scores are associated with a significant...
What’s the Optimal Cholesterol Level?
No matter where we live, how old we are or what we look like, health...
How May Eating Plants Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern...
Can Peppermint Improve Athletic Performance?
Ever since smoking was prohibited in night clubs, customers have increasingly noticed other unpleasant smells...
Reversal of Chronic Disease Risk Even Late in Life
A hundred years ago, the New York Times reported on a rather sophisticated study for...
Do You Meet the Simple Seven?
In public health school, you learn there are three levels of preventive medicine. Primary prevention...
How to Cut Breast Cancer Risk in Half
One of my favorite cancer-specific charities, the American Institute for Cancer Research, lauds the China Study and...
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...
How Big Food Twists the Science
Just like mosquitos are the vectors of spread for malaria, a landmark article published recently...
