Understanding Lifestyle Medicine From the Heart
I talk a lot about numbers and statistics, but as the Director of Yale’s Prevention...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
In 2011, Denmark introduced the world’s first tax on saturated fat. “After only 15 months, however, the fat tax was abolished,” due to massive pressure from farming and food company interests. “Public health advocates are weak in tackling the issues...
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Add Beans, Berries, and Greens to More Meals
After we eat, our bodies create free radicals in the process of breaking down our...
How to Get Enough Antioxidants Each Day
We need to get a daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day in our...
How Fatty Foods May Affect Our Love Life
The food industry, like the tobacco companies and other drug lords, has been able to...
What to Eat to Reduce Our Toxic Exposure
It is not very common that a single molecule attracts enough interest to merit international...
Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
How to Design a Misleading Study
Imagine working for the now defunct Twinkie division of Hostess and wanting to take the...
Stopping Heart Disease in Childhood
A landmark paper in 1953 radically changed our view about the development of heart disease...
A Low-Methionine Diet May Help Starve Cancer Cells
When designing an antibiotic, we can’t create a drug that destroys DNA because that’s something...
Handling Poultry Tied to Liver/Pancreatic Cancers
Thousands of Americans continue to die from asbestos exposure decades after many uses were banned...
Avoid Butter-Flavored Microwave Popcorn
What does chemical warfare and microwave popcorn have in common? The poison gas phosgene, first...
Can We Fight the Blues with Greens?
Why does frequent consumption of vegetables appear to cut one’s odds of depression by more...
Breast Cancer and Wine
After diagnosis, women with breast cancer may cut their risk of dying nearly in half...
Egg Industry Caught Making False Claims
On the basis of concerns from the American Heart Association and consumer groups, the Federal...
Raspberries Reverse Precancerous Lesions
More berried treasure! A story similar to the strawberries and esophageal cancer revelation I documented...
Eggs, Cigarettes, and Atherosclerosis
A study in the journal Atherosclerosis found that eating just 3 eggs or more a week...
Avoiding Cooked Meat Carcinogens
When the muscles of mammals, fish, or birds are cooked at high temperatures carcinogenic chemicals...
Eating To Extend Our Lifespan
Why can’t we live forever? Some animals do, and I don’t mean some 200 year...
How to Live Longer in Four Easy Steps
The CDC published a paper this week in the American Journal of Public Health suggesting...
