Why Drugs and Diet Can Sometimes Fail in Diabetes
“People with type 2 diabetes are at elevated risk for a number of serious health...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Rather than being some kind of disorder or a failure of willpower, weight gain is largely a normal response by normal people to an abnormal situation. It’s been said that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of...
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How to Lose Weight Eating More Food
What happens if you add fruit to your regular diet, eating three apples or pears...
Foods with Negative Calories
What are some dietary strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity? Large portion sizes...
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...
Plant-Based Diets Put to the Test for Diabetes
My Why Is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes? video shows how meat may play...
Sip Smoothies Slowly
A famous study in 2000 compared the impact of soda versus jelly beans. Researchers had...
Chocolate Is Finally Put to the Test
Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants—the whole plant stuffed into a tiny seed and...
Boosting Brown Fat Through Diet
Until about ten years ago, brown adipose tissue (BAT) was considered to be biologically active...
Brown Fat: Losing Weight Through Thermogenesis
During World War I, it was discovered that many of the chemicals for new explosives...
Reversing Diabetic Blindness with Diet
Though many reported feeling better on Dr. Walter Kempner’s rice and fruit diet, he refused...
Even Children Are Getting Gastric Bypasses Now
Weight loss surgery for children and adolescents is becoming widespread and is being performed in...
Mozart as Medicine
We’ve been playing music since the Paleolithic Era, 40,000 years ago. Music as therapy has...
Benefits of Oatmeal for Fatty Liver Disease
If oatmeal is so powerful that it can clear up some of the ravages of...
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...
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...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
What About All the Sugar in Fruit?
If the fructose in sugar and high fructose corn syrup has been considered “alcohol without...
Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets
Hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States every year are attributed to obesity,...
Virus in Chicken Could Be Linked to Obesity
Recently, there has been research examining the connection between poultry consumption and weight gain. One...
Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension
Recently, researchers from Taiwan pitted the herbal tea hibiscus against obesity. They gave hibiscus to...
How to Protect Our Telomeres with Diet
In my video, Does Meditation Affect Cellular Aging?, I discussed how stress reduction through meditation...
When Charities Collaborate with the Food Industry
When the history of the world’s attempts to address obesity is written, one researcher writes,...
Hummus for a Healthy Heart
I’ve talked previously about the anti-diabetic and anti-obesity effects of various phytonutrients in beans, but...
