Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing as “1-vessel disease,” “2-vessel disease,” or “left main disease.” Atherosclerotic plaque is continuous throughout the coronary arteries of heart attack victims.
What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes to one and a third cup of millet every day?
Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to a number of totally different plants. Which is the most healthful?
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure?
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels.
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to plant protein isolates?
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?
Learn why sorghum is one of my favorite new grains.
Increased risk of metabolic complications starts at an abdominal circumference of 31.5 inches in women and 37 inches in most men, though it’s closer to 35.5 inches for South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese men.
Is there a unisex chart to see what your optimal weight might be based on your height?
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer?
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.
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.
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough?
Buchinger modified fasting is put to the test.
Where did the idea of therapeutic fasting come from?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
Those on a healthy plant-based diet with elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin B12 may want to consider taking a gram a day of contaminant-free creatine.
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?
We need to reform the food system before it’s too late.
There are things you can do right now to reduce your risk of falling seriously ill and dying from this disease.
Rather than being some kind of disorder or failure of willpower, weight gain is largely a normal response, by normal people, to an abnormal situation.
The big fat “fat gene” accounts for less than 1% of the differences in size between people.
How to treat the cause by preventing the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place (a video I recorded more than a decade ago when I was Public Health Director at the HSUS in Washington DC).
Healthier plant-based diets compared to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods on diabetes risk.
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.
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.
Why we may want to strive not to exceed the recommended intake of protein.
In this live presentation, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his book How Not to Diet.
Eating every other day can raise your cholesterol.
Understanding the metabolic and behavioral adaptations that slow weight loss.
Keto diets put to the test for diabetes reversal.
Plant-based diets as the single most important, yet underutilized, opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced epidemic of disease and death.
Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the effects of berries on arthritis.
The case for using a plant-based diet to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger.
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee.
Blueberries are put to the test against insulin resistance, oxidation, and DNA damage.
