Optimal Bowel Movement Position
Compared to rural African populations eating traditional plant-based diets, white South Africans and black and...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
My Daily Dozen recommends at least one tablespoon of ground flaxseeds a day, but what’s this about cyanide? Sweden’s dietary guidelines are pioneering in many ways. For example, they encourage people to decrease their climate impact by choosing more plant-based...
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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...
What to Eat to Cure High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure ranks as the number-one risk factor for death and disability in the...
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...
Best Foods for Acid Reflux
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common disorders of the digestive tract....
The Best Diet for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease affecting millions. It is characterized by persistent...
The Best Diet to Prevent Kidney Stones
In my video How to Prevent Kidney Stones with Diet, you can see what the...
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...
The Five Most Important Dietary Tweaks
Generally, adherence to healthy lifestyle patterns has decreased during the last 18 years. Obesity is...
White Meat May Be as Cholesterol-Raising as Red
In light of recommendations for heart healthy eating from national professional organizations encouraging Americans to...
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...
What Do All the Blue Zones Have in Common?
What accounts for the benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet? An anatomy of health effects was...
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 to Prevent Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
What has driven the dramatic increase in prevalence of the inflammatory bowel disease Crohn’s disease...
Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Help Reduce Brain Loss
Each of us has about six billion miles of DNA. How does our body keep...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
Reduce Saturated Fat Intake to Protect Your Pancreas
The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and...
Reversal of Chronic Disease Risk Even Late in Life
A hundred years ago, the New York Times reported on a rather sophisticated study for...
What About Eating Just a Little Meat?
As you can see in my video, Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes, we’ve known for decades...
How to Design Saturated Fat Studies to Hide the Truth
Where do the international consensus guidelines to dramatically lower saturated fat consumption come from? (I...
How to Cut Breast Cancer Risk in Half
One of my favorite cancer-specific charities, the American Institute for Cancer Research, lauds the China Study and...
