The Effects of Obesity on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
Is there a nonsurgical alternative to knee replacement surgery that instead treats the cause and offers only beneficial side effects?
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure.
Why the current Recommended Daily Allowance for vitamin B12 may be insufficient.
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency.
Not taking B12 supplements or regularly eating B12 fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians.
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.
What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?
What’s the best type of pots and pans to use?
What to eat and what to avoid to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a).
What is this lipoprotein(a) and what can we do about it?
How do the nutrition and health effects of quinoa compare to whole grains?
Why are U.S. taxpayers giving billions to support the likes of the sugar and livestock industries?
The effect of fasting to lower blood pressure compared to medications, cutting down on alcohol, meat and salt, eating more fruits and vegetables, or eating completely plant-based.
Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you’re treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects.
Public health authorities continue to drop the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.
What shift workers can do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.
Ancient wheats like kamut are put to the test for inflammation, blood sugar, and cholesterol control.
Bright light exposure synchronizes the central circadian clock in our brains, whereas proper meal timing helps sync the timing of the clock genes throughout the rest of our body.
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.
Raw garlic is compared to roasted, stir-fried, simmered, and jarred garlic.
See what a penny a day worth of garlic powder can do.
Are there benefits to giving yourself a bigger daily break from eating?
The effects of eating only 5 days a week or a fasting-mimicking diet 5 days a month.
In this live presentation, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his book How Not to Diet.
Alternate-day modified fasting is put to the test for lifespan extension.
Eating every other day can raise your cholesterol.
How to preserve bone and mass on a low calorie diet.
Though a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing.
The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.
Were the flax seed studies showing 20 pounds of weight loss just flukes?
How the food industry responds to “health food faddists.”
What is the research on orthorexia?
The best and worst foods for bad breath and gum inflammation.
Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease.
Ground ginger and ginger tea are put to the test for blood sugar control.
Is butter—and other saturated fats—bad for you or not?