China Study on Sudden Cardiac Death
The China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project directed by T. Colin Campbell and colleagues showed that chronic diseases, such as heart disease, are not inevitable consequences of aging.
The China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project directed by T. Colin Campbell and colleagues showed that chronic diseases, such as heart disease, are not inevitable consequences of aging.
Dr. Dean Ornish proved decades ago that heart disease could be reversed solely with diet and lifestyle changes.
Medicare is now accepting for reimbursement the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease and the Pritikin Program, which, on a personal note, is what inspired me to go into medicine.
The egg industry is attempting to improve the fatty acid lipid profile of eggs by feeding blubber from the Canadian harp seal hunt to laying hens.
Chicken and eggs are the top sources of arachidonic acid in the diet—an omega-6 fatty acid involved in our body’s inflammatory response.
Arachidonic acid may play a role in cancer, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune disorders.
The purported role arachidonic acid plays in brain inflammation could explain why eliminating chicken, fish, and eggs may improve symptoms of mood disturbance, depression, anxiety, and stress within two weeks.
Which country has the largest (and smallest) average stool size?
Most women experience a four-day intestine transit time; likely too long to meet the target 200 gram (half pound) minimum fecal output for cancer prevention.
Women eating vegetarian may have lower breast cancer rates because they have larger bowel movements.
The top three sources of industrial toxins in the diet are fish oil, fish, and eggs.
Excessive intake of kelp (kombu) or thyroid-containing sausages can lead to iodine toxicity.
Disinfectants used to sanitize cow udders may provide a source of iodine for dairy consumers, but can also increase the concentration of pus in milk from cows with staph infection mastitis.
Meat, animal protein, and soy milk can affect premature breast development in girls.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is common among those eating vegetarian and particularly vegan diets because of failure to take B12 supplements or eat B12-fortifed foods.
Vitamin B12 is an imperative for those eating vegetarian and vegan diets, especially during pregnancy and infancy.
Vitamin B12 deficiency can be life-threatening.
Rate your diet on a scale of 0 to 100 using the phytochemical index, and compare your score to the Standard American Diet.
En promedio, los alimentos vegetales tienen 64 veces más poder antioxidante que la carne roja, las aves, el pescado, los productos lácteos y los huevos, pero ¿es ésta una comparación justa?
In the most extensive study of its kind ever published, the amount of anti-aging anticancer antioxidants is measured across thousands of different foods.
Profile of an editorial published by Dr. Dean Ornish in the American Journal of Cardiology describing the optimal diet, and how simple choices can be as powerful as drugs and surgery.
¿Qué tipo de alimentación basada en plantas es más efectiva en la reducción de los niveles de colesterol?
Ocho productos sometidos a prueba para la reducción del colesterol.
Se comparan las tasas de ataque de cálculos biliares en omnívoros y vegetarianos.
El Dr. Dean Ornish da un giro de revertir enfermedades cardíacas a intentar revertir el cáncer de próstata.
How to essentially eliminate the great scourge of the Western world.
Incluso los flexitarianos podrían estar en mayor riesgo de desarrollar artritis.
Una forma de desintoxicar el cuerpo de contaminantes industriales que se encuentran en el suministro de alimentos.
Hay dos vitaminas que no son producidas por las plantas que pueden requerir suplementación.
Un estudio sobre el efecto del consumo de carne en el atractivo del olor corporal.
The mental age of children eating plant-based diets appears to exceed their peers.
Los que comen dietas basadas en plantas deben garantizar una fuente confiable de vitamina B12 a través de suplementos o alimentos enriquecidos
Con algunas advertencias, la mejor fuente de yodo son los vegetales marinos.
Average vegan diets tend to be deficient in three nutrients, whereas average omnivores tend, unfortunately, to be deficient in seven.
La caseína y la proteína de soya parecen tener diferentes efectos en la cintura.
La educación médica continúa subestimando la nutrición clínica.
Algunos nutrientes se destruyen al cocinar, pero algunos nutrientes se vuelven más absorbibles.
Al tratar de alcanzar tus nueve porciones diarias de frutas y verduras, ¿cuáles no cuentan?
Los investigadores descubrieron una intervención dietética que puede ralentizar la progresión del cáncer.