What Are the Best and Worst Foods?
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
What can millions of dollars in the hands of the lobbying industry do to shut down efforts to protect children? For nearly half a century, there have been calls to ban the advertising of sugary cereals to children, a...
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The Effect of Animal Protein on the Kidneys
Between 1990 and 2010, some of our leading causes of death and disability remained the...
Why It’s Better to Drink Green Smoothies with a Straw
A group of women were split into two groups and told to eat as much...
Do Smoothies Cause Overly Rapid Sugar Absorption?
Drinking sugar water is bad for you, as I explored in If Fructose Is Bad,...
How to Treat Dry Eye Disease Naturally with Diet
One of the most common eye disorders, dry eye disease, causes irritation or discomfort, and...
What a Single Fatty Meal Can Do to Our Arteries
The phenomenon of postprandial angina was described more than 200 years ago: chest pain that...
Chocolate Is Finally Put to the Test
Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants—the whole plant stuffed into a tiny seed and...
9 out of 10 Who Die from It Never Knew They Even Had This Preventable Disease
Diverticula are out-pouchings of our intestine. Doctors like using a tire analogy: high pressures within...
Big Sugar Flexes Its Muscles
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends we reduce our consumption of salt, trans fats, saturated...
White Meat May Be as Cholesterol-Raising as Red
In light of recommendations for heart healthy eating from national professional organizations encouraging Americans to...
Can You Eat Too Much Fruit?
In my video If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?, I explored how adding berries...
What Not to Add to White Rice, Potatoes, or Pasta
Rice currently feeds almost half the human population, making it the single most important staple...
How a Low-Carb Diet Is Metabolically Like Being Obese
Free fatty acids (meaning fat circulating in the bloodstream not packaged into triglycerides) result in...
Fat Is the Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
Studies dating back nearly a century noted a striking finding: If you take young, healthy...
Flaxseeds Can Have Profound Effect on Hypertension
A recent article in the journal, Meat Science, acknowledged that a sector of the population...
How May Eating Plants Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
Side-Effects of Aspartame on the Brain
The National Institutes of Health AARP study of hundreds of thousands of Americans followed for...
What About All the Sugar in Fruit?
If the fructose in sugar and high fructose corn syrup has been considered “alcohol without...
How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much?
In 1776, at the time of the American Revolution, Americans consumed about four pounds of...
How to Treat Prediabetes with Diet
For people with prediabetes, lifestyle modification is considered “the cornerstone of diabetes prevention.” Diet-wise, this...
When Charities Collaborate with the Food Industry
When the history of the world’s attempts to address obesity is written, one researcher writes,...
How to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Thirty years ago, virtually all diabetes in young individuals was thought to be autoimmune Type...
Making Your Own Mouthwash
The effects of a vegetarian diet on systemic diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases...
