How to Eliminate 90 Percent of Heart Disease Risk
Medical myths and dogmas die hard. Researchers creating a new body of knowledge for prevention...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Which would save more lives: eating an apple a day or taking statin drugs? Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? That’s a public health message that’s been around since 1866, but is it true? You don’t...
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Dietary Estrogens and Male Fertility
In my video, The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts, I discussed the association...
Four Brazil Nuts Once a Month…
One of the craziest studies I read all year involved feeding people a single serving...
Why Don’t More Doctors Practice Prevention?
Why don’t more doctors practice preventive cardiology? Time availability is a reason frequently cited by...
Hummus for a Healthy Heart
I’ve talked previously about the anti-diabetic and anti-obesity effects of various phytonutrients in beans, but...
Do Cholesterol Statin Drugs Cause Breast Cancer?
What does breast cancer have to do with cholesterol? There are many potential mechanisms by...
Why Do Heart Doctors Favor Surgery and Drugs Over Diet?
When he was a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. published a...
How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
Cholesterol Lowering in a Nut Shell
Though official recommendations are to first treat high cholesterol with dietary change, many physicians jump right to...
