Making Your Own Mouthwash
The effects of a vegetarian diet on systemic diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases...
Tag: Standard American Diet
Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
The purported link between obesity and hormone-disrupting plastics chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) was initially based in part on observations that the rise in chemical exposure seemed to coincide with the rise of the obesity epidemic, but that may only...
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Evidence-Based Nutrition
Dr. Esselstyn’s landmark study, demonstrating that even advanced triple vessel coronary artery disease could be...
The Dietary Link Between Acne and Cancer
Acne is an epidemic skin disease of industrialized countries, reaching prevalence rates of over 85 percent of...
How Learning to Cook Can Save Your Life
The eating habits of modern Americans have been described as, “eating breakfast in their cars,...
Where Are the Lowest Rates of Alzheimer’s in the World?
The rates of dementia differ greatly around the world, from the lowest rates in Africa,...
Why Some Dietary Cholesterol Studies Fail to Show Harm
How else can we make decisions for ourselves and our families but by the best...
Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
What Do Eggs Do To Our Arteries?
In reaction to the study that found a similar exponential increase in artery clogging plaque...
Dietary Cholesterol Affects Blood Cholesterol Levels
In my video, Eggs vs. Cigarettes in Atherosclerosis, I profiled a study showing that both...
How Fruits and Vegetables Can Treat Asthma
In my video Preventing Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted an international study of...
Our Tax Dollars Subsidize Unhealthy Foods
Why do food companies sell junk? Because unhealthy commodities are highly profitable. This is in...
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
Colon Cancer Prevention: Is It the Fiber or the Phytates?
Dietary factors are considered the most important environmental risk factors for cancer. Within recent years,...
Don’t Forget Fiber
The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt is better known for his discovery of a childhood cancer...
Foods That Fight Osteoarthritis and Inflammation
Osteoarthritis is the most frequent cause of physical disability among older adults in the world,...
Comparing Vegans’ Arteries to Runners’
We know from the work of Drs. Dean Ornish and Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. that...
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...
The Reason We Need More Antioxidants
Glucose is the primary fuel of the human body. We consume glucose and breathe in...
We Can End the Heart Disease Epidemic
Many of the diseases that are common in United States are rare or even nonexistent...
Our Immune System Uses Plants to Activate Gut Protection
It might seem that our skin is the first line of defense between our insides...
Are Canned Beans as Healthy as Home-Cooked?
Beans are an essential part of any healthful diet. The federal government recommends about half...
Test to See If Your Diet Is Alkaline- or Acid-Forming
In my video Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, & Calcium Loss I presented evidence challenging the notion...
How Plant-Based Diets May Extend Our Lives
A recent review suggested that plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy...
