Plant-Based Is Not the Same as Vegetarianism
Referring to heart disease, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD asks, “Why is there reticence to...
Tag: Standard American Diet
Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling our artery function, thickening our blood, and causing a fight-or-flight nerve response. Thankfully, there are foods we can eat at every meal to counter this...
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Moderation Kills
What if we don’t want just low risk for a heart attack, but no risk?...
Stop Creating So Many Free Radicals in Your Colon
Colon cancer risk in Westernized populations may be reduced by decreasing animal product intake and...
Bad Gut Flora Can Undermine Our Natural Liver Detox
Colon cancer is a leading cancer killer, yet there’s a paradox in Africa: Africans rarely...
Optimal Bowel Movement Position
Compared to rural African populations eating traditional plant-based diets, white South Africans and black and...
Optimal Bowel Movement Frequency
Lasting for 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the greatest ancient civilizations—with a vastly...
Treating the Root Cause of Acid Reflux
In terms of preventing acid reflux heartburn, high-fat meals cause dramatically more acid exposure in...
Fifty Times Lower Colon Cancer Risk
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, after...
Treating Kidney Stones with Diet
Studies suggest that excessive consumption of animal protein poses a risk of kidney stone formation,...
Can Oatmeal Reverse Heart Disease?
Fiber continues to be singled out as a nutrient of public health concern. We’re getting...
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...
High Blood Pressure: Normal but Not Natural
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death ever undertaken allows us to...
How to Prevent a Heart Attack
In my video Arterial Acne, I described atherosclerotic plaques as inflamed pockets of pus. Our coronary...
The Five Most Important Dietary Tweaks
Generally, adherence to healthy lifestyle patterns has decreased during the last 18 years. Obesity is...
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 Mediterranean Diet’s Secret?
The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays in both the medical literature and the...
Striving for Alkaline Pee and Acidic Poo
More than 30 years ago, an idea was put forward that high colonic pH promoted...
How May Eating Plants Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern...
Reversal of Chronic Disease Risk Even Late in Life
A hundred years ago, the New York Times reported on a rather sophisticated study for...
Preventing and Treating Low Back Pain with Diet
Low back pain became one of the biggest problems for public health systems in the...
Treating Pancreatic Cancer with Turmeric Curcumin
Pancreatic cancer is among the most aggressive forms of human cancer, characterized by a very...
Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension
Recently, researchers from Taiwan pitted the herbal tea hibiscus against obesity. They gave hibiscus to...
Eating Garlic and Raisins May Help Prevent Preterm Birth
The United States has one of the worst premature birth rates in the world, now...
When Charities Collaborate with the Food Industry
When the history of the world’s attempts to address obesity is written, one researcher writes,...
