Kidney Stones and Spinach, Chard, and Beet Greens: Don’t Eat Too Much
Given their oxalate content, how much is too much spinach, chard, beet greens, chaga mushroom powder, almonds, cashews, star fruit, and instant tea?
Given their oxalate content, how much is too much spinach, chard, beet greens, chaga mushroom powder, almonds, cashews, star fruit, and instant tea?
The remarkable impact of the structure of food beyond nutritional content or composition.
How the food industry responds to “health food faddists.”
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee.
How do we explain the increased risk of prostate cancer but the decreased risk of colon cancer associated with dairy consumption?
Ground ginger and ginger tea are put to the test for blood sugar control.
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What is low-acid coffee, and does it help those who suffer from acid reflux, heartburn, and indigestion?
Dark roast coffee is more effective than light roast coffee in reducing body weight.
Blueberry tea is put to the test for cholesterol lowering.
What about the recent studies that show cheese has neutral or positive health effects?
Randomized controlled studies put nuts, berries, and grape juice to the test for cognitive function.
The effects of Red Bull and Monster brand energy drinks on artery function and athletic performance.
Red Bull and Rockstar brand energy drinks are put to the test.
Ground ginger powder is put to the test for weight loss and NAFLD, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
What happens when you add massive amounts of carbs to the daily diet of type 2 diabetics in the form of whole grains?
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed of largely whole grains, vegetables, and beans?
How to choose the healthiest coffee, and the effects of adding milk vs. soymilk.
There may be a way to get the benefits of over-the-counter melatonin supplements without the risk.
How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers?
The natural plant-based sweeteners stevia and monk fruit (Luo Han Guo) are pitted head-to-head against aspartame and Splenda.
What is the science behind the marketing of foods for antidepressant effects?
What dietary change can simultaneously help detoxify mercury, lead, and cadmium from the body?
What happened when researchers tried to tease out what’s in dairy that interferes with the health benefits of berries and tea?
Dinosaur kale and red cabbage are put to the test.
Commercial influences may have corrupted the American College of Sports Medicine’s hydration guidelines.
Coconut water is tested head-to-head against plain water and sports drinks in athletes.
When it comes to uterine fibroids, is soy harmful, harmless, or helpful?
What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less alcohol their whole lives? Would they get more or less heart disease?
Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous J-shaped curve, where excessive drinking is bad, but light drinkers appear to have lower mortality than abstainers?
Is there any benefit to resveratrol? If so, should we get it from wine, grapes, peanuts, or supplements?
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine.
If even light drinking can cause cancer, why don’t doctors warn their patients about it?
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters?
What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples?
Should laptops not be on laps? What is the effect of WiFi exposure on sperm motility and DNA damage?
Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in two million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared to alcohol and tobacco?
Dr. Greger blends up a vegetable smoothie inspired by a recipe in his How Not to Die Cookbook.
What happened when cancer patients were given three quarters of a cup of canned tomato sauce every day for three weeks?
Women with uterine fibroids should consider adding green tea to their daily diet, as a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled interventional trial suggests it may help as well as surgery.