Is it Worth Getting Annual Health Check-Ups?
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor?
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor?
What happened when turmeric curcumin was put to the test to see if it could reverse DNA damage caused by arsenic exposure?
How can we properly cook beans?
A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.
Are there unique benefits to brown rice that would justify keeping it in our diet despite the arsenic content?
Do the health benefits of rice consumption outweigh any potential risk from the arsenic contamination?
A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk of arsenic. What about seaweed from the coast of Maine?
Even at low-level exposure, arsenic is not just a class I carcinogen, but may also impair our immune function and increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Since white blood cell count is a sign of systemic inflammation, it’s no surprise that those with lower white blood cell counts live longer.
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities, recommending what they think may be achievable, rather than simply informing us what the science says and letting us make up our own mind.
Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after-meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat.
Do BPA-free plastics, such as Tritan, have human hormone-disrupting effects? And what about BPS and BPF?
There are two ways in which salt may drive autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, type I diabetes, Sjögren’s syndrome, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis.
What’s more important: probiotics or prebiotics? And where can we best get them?
The majority of specialists in the field agreed that paraTB in meat and dairy likely represents a risk to human health and should be a high- or medium-priority public health issue.
Eating meat during breastfeeding is associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes, perhaps a consequence of meat glycotoxins or paratuberculosis bacteria that may be passed though breast milk.
“Fear of consumer reaction” led the U.S. dairy industry to suppress the discovery in retail milk of live paraTB bacteria, a pathogen linked to type 1 diabetes.
Prioritizing plant-based sources of iron may be more effective than giving blood at reducing the risk of potentially “ferrotoxic” (iron-related) diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
What are the protective components of dietary patterns and foods associated with lower risk of cerebrovascular disease, or stroke?
What happened to women who were randomized to eat more meat and dairy during pregnancy? What effect does animal protein consumption have on cortisol and testosterone levels in men?
Using skin lotion or hand sanitizer before touching thermal paper, such as cash register receipts and printed tickets, can facilitate the absorption of BPA into the body.
Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are caused by a drop in insulin sensitivity blamed on “intramyocellular lipid,” the buildup of fat inside our muscle cells.
How the egg industry funded a study designed to cover up the toxic trimethylamine oxide reaction to egg consumption.
Is it the casein or the cow insulin that explains the link between milk consumption and the development of type I diabetes?
Why might exposure to bovine proteins increase the risk of childhood-onset autoimmune type 1 diabetes?
Combining certain foods together may be more beneficial than eating them separately.
If the synthetic estrogen BPA is linked to billions of dollars’ worth of medical problems a year, why is it still allowed in the food supply?
What can we eat to increase good gut bacteria richness in our colon?
What pregnant women eat may affect even the health of their grandchildren.
We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.
What is the baggage that comes along with the nutrients in your food?
How might we prevent and reverse hypertension, the number-one risk factor for death in the world?
Type 2 diabetes can be prevented, arrested, and even reversed with a healthy enough diet.
What is the optimal source and amount of protein for senior citizens?
Why is the field of nutrition often more about marketing products than educating people about the fundamentals of healthy eating?
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.
Those with higher vitamin D levels tend to have lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, but is it cause and effect? Interventional trials finally put vitamin D to the test.
How many cola cancer cases are estimated to be caused by Coke and Pepsi in New York versus California, where a carcinogen labeling law (Prop 65) exists?
Inadequate consumption of prebiotics—the fiber and resistant starch concentrated in unprocessed plant foods—can cause a disease-promoting imbalance in our gut microbiome.
What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?