Nutrition FAQs

Answered by: Thea I highly recommend taking a look at Dr. Greger's two videos on colonoscopies, What to Take Before a Colonoscopy and Should We All Get Colonoscopies Starting at Age 50? The videos are very short. The videos reference the source studies, which...

Answered by: Thea I recommend you take a look at this article which explains how the Dietary Guidelines Committee got to their initial conclusion (which was later reversed). Very important details. As they say, the devil is in the details. And, as it...

Answered by: Thea I have some resources that should help you get started on being able to bolster your case. First, note the following quote from a position paper from the ADA: "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that...

Answered by: Dr. Michael Greger A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of conventional fruits and vegetables, 20,000 cases of cancer could be prevented. At the same time the added pesticide consumption could cause up to...

Answered by: Dr. Michael Greger Fabulous question! There was a study involving four thousand participants that compared traditional Asian diets with and without occasional servings of meat. The researchers found that men who avoided meat altogether had only half the odds of...

Answered by: Thea To be successful losing weight involves first learning about the importance of centering one’s diet around whole plant foods and having a sense of how to implement it. That’s half the learning curve and it sounds like you’re already...

Question: I am underweight and would like to gain weight in a healthy way.  Do you have any recommendations?  Answer:As explained in my video Eating More to Weigh Less, the key to healthy longterm weight loss is understanding calorie density and eating low calorie-dense...

I am a medical student and would like to obtain more training in nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Are there any residencies for Lifestyle Medicine?  If not, what are some other training opportunities that can I pursue?  Answer:Thank you for sending in this...

Thank you for this informative video - have been cutting down on high oxalate foods in attempt to prevent another stone, but don't want to cut out all those delicious dark leafys. Any idea where nuts/seeds/legumes fall along the LAKE scale? ashelton / Originally...

Hi Dr. Greger, appreciate all your work. There's been a lot of bad news a about antioxidants recently. Should people be concerned about how much they ingest?  Ren / Originally posted in Acai to Zucchini: antioxidant food rankings Answer: Good question! There has been a buzz around...

CC / Originally posted in How to Prevent Kidney Stones with Diet You mention oxalates in other videos. But a vegan friend of mine has found that many of the veggies that are great sources of calcium are also high in oxalates....

Help! I went vegan for 4 months with no statins. My cholesterol shot up to 280. (From 180). On statins and a diet with rare "tastes" of meat and dairy, I am at 170-180. I would hate to take more statins, any...