Foods with Negative Calories
What are some dietary strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity? Large portion sizes...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What about dietary approaches for female sexual dysfunction? “The creation and promotion of ‘female sexual dysfunction’ [as a mental disorder] is a textbook case of disease...
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What About the French Paradox?
The so-called French Paradox is a term coined back in the 1980s by three Frenchmen...
Were We Wrong About Fiber?
In my video Is the Fiber Theory Wrong?, I present that fiber-containing foods may not...
Follow the 5-to-1 Rule for Packaged Foods
When people think fiber, they think constipation. And it’s true: If we could get Americans...
Change Your Diet; Change Your Microbiome
If whatever gut flora enterotype we are could play an important role in our risk...
Even Modest Lifestyle Changes in Middle Age May Significantly Extend Your Life
In How to Reduce the Risk of Sudden Death, I discuss how public health workers...
Antioxidant Supplements Increase Mortality
In my video Industry Response to Plants Not Pills, I discuss a famous study that...
Plant-Based Diets Put to the Test for Diabetes
My Why Is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes? video shows how meat may play...
Which Vegetables Have the Most Nitrates?
What is the optimal timing and dose of nitrate-containing vegetables? In terms of timing for...
How Healthy Is the Mediterranean Diet?
The heart of a traditional Mediterranean diet is mainly vegetarian—much lower in meat and dairy...
What Do the Longest Living People Eat?
The dietary guidelines recommend that we choose meals or snacks that are high in nutrients...
Best Foods for COPD and Peripheral Artery Disease
It’s great we can improve athletic performance by eating a few beets, but so what...
How to Use Canned Beets to Improve Athletic Performance
Vegetable nitrates, concentrated in green leafy vegetables and beets, underwent a great makeover a few...
In Late Pregnancy Moderate the Intake of Powerful Anti-inflammatory Foods
The right side of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs,...
Meat Is Heat: The Effects of Diet on Global Warming
One of the most prestigious medical journals in the world editorialized that climate change represents...
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...
Sip Smoothies Slowly
A famous study in 2000 compared the impact of soda versus jelly beans. Researchers had...
Do Smoothies Cause Overly Rapid Sugar Absorption?
Drinking sugar water is bad for you, as I explored in If Fructose Is Bad,...
Why Intact Grains Are Even Better Than Whole Grains
Fruits and vegetables are the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, and dark green leafy...
How to Maximize Nutrient Absorption
Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors associated with an increased risk of premature death include smoking, excessive alcohol drinking, and not eating enough...
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...
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 About Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
The relative paralysis of our arteries for hours after eating fast food and cheesecake may...
Chocolate Is Finally Put to the Test
Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants—the whole plant stuffed into a tiny seed and...
