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The American Heart Association (AHA) advocates dietary and lifestyle changes for preventing heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular conditions, and agree that these changes may be as effective or even better than medications. They came up with seven simple recommendations for lifestyle changes and have set modest goals for getting more Americans to practice them.
Some dietary modifications the AHA recommends include decreasing salt, trans fat, saturated fat, sugar, and cholesterol consumption and increasing the intake and variety of fruits and vegetables. They also recognize a link between prolonged sitting and increased mortality and advocate for daily exercise.
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The effects of coconut oil are compared to butter and tallow. Even if virgin coconut oil and other saturated fats raise LDL “bad” cholesterol, isn’t that countered by the increase in HDL “good” cholesterol?
What would happen if you randomized babies at birth to a lifetime of low cholesterol levels? Nature did it for us! In this video, I introduce the concept of Mendelian randomization.
The current generation of American kids may be one of the first generations to be less healthy and have shorter lifespans than their parents.
Sugar is no longer considered just empty calories, but an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. So what happens if you switch to artificial sweeteners?
Is a plant-based diet sufficient to reach sodium goals?
How to prevent and reverse hypertension, the #1 risk factor for death in the world
The medical profession appears more interested in disclosing and “managing” conflicts of interest than prohibiting them.
In this “best-of” compilation of his last four year-in-review presentations, Dr. Greger explains what we can do about the #1 cause of death and disability: our diet.
Our physiology evolved for millions of years eating a plant-based diet. What would happen if researchers tried to recreate our ancestral diet in the lab?
The three things we can do to lower our sodium intake and two tricks for interpreting nutrition facts labeling on processed foods.
The myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago.
Rather than reformulate their products with less sodium and save lives, food manufacturers have lobbied governments, refused to cooperate, encouraged misinformation campaigns, and tried to discredit the evidence.
