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?
What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?
How the food, drug, and supplement industries have taken advantage of the field of nutrition’s reductionist mindset
A cup a day of beans, chickpeas, or lentils for three months may slow resting heart rate as much as exercising for 50 hours on a treadmill.
To maximize our lifespan, the target resting heart rate may be one beat a second or less.
The reason greens are associated with a significantly longer lifespan may be because, like caloric restriction, they improve our energy efficiency.
CT scans confirm that daily vinegar consumption can lead to a significant loss of abdominal fat.
Diabetics suffering from nerve pain for years are cured within days with a plant-based diet.
Even without an exercise component, a plant-based diet can reduce angina attacks 90% within 24 days.
Dietary guidelines often patronizingly recommend what is considered acceptable or achievable, rather than what the best available balance of evidence suggests is best.
What are the pros and cons of fennel fruits as a cheap, easy-to-find, light-weight, nonperishable source of nitrates?
Certain foods are linked not only to increased happiness, but also to greater “eudaemonic” well-being—feelings of engagement, creativity, meaning, and purpose in life.
Vegetables tested head-to-head to see which boosts immune function best.
Why do some drug-based strategies shorten the lives of diabetics and some diet-based strategies fail to decrease diabetes deaths?
Fatty streak formation occurs in human fetal arteries and is linked to the pregnant mother’s cholesterol level.
Research on resveratrol, a component of red wine, looked promising in rodent studies, but what happened when it was put to the test in people?
Diet and lifestyle improvements started even late in life can offer dramatic benefits.
The green algae, chlorella, may help attenuate the drop in immune function antibodies associated with over-strenuous exercise.
What is the optimal timing and dose of nitrate-containing vegetables, such as beets and spinach, for improving athletic performance?
What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?
Vegetables such as beets and arugula can improve athletic performance by improving oxygen delivery and utilization. But, what about for those who really need it—such as those with emphysema, high blood pressure, and peripheral artery disease?
What is the latest science on the performance-enhancing qualities of nitrate-rich vegetables?
While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far our leading causes of death, global warming is considered a looming public health threat. How can we eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time?
Potential culprits include the trans fat in meat, the saturated fat, cholesterol, heme iron, advanced glycation end products (glycotoxins), animal protein (especially leucine), zoonotic viruses, and industrial pollutants that accumulate up the food chain.
Big Candy boasts studies showing that those who eat chocolate weigh less than those who don’t, but what does the best science show?
The fat-burning properties of brown adipose tissue can be boosted by cold exposure, certain flavor molecules, and arginine-rich foods.
Brown adipose tissue is a unique organ that burns fat to create heat, improving temperature regulation in infants and weight loss in adults.
Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.
The brain shrinkage associated with dehydration may not only play a role in cognitive impairment, but also in levels of energy, alertness, and happiness.
Diet and exercise synergize to improve endothelial function, the ability of our arteries to relax normally.
Lifestyle changes are often more effective in reducing the rates of heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and premature death than almost any other medical intervention.
Saturated fat can be toxic to the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, explaining why animal fat consumption can impair insulin secretion, not just insulin sensitivity.
Music can beat out anti-anxiety drugs, Mozart can reduce allergic reactions, and how listening to your favorite tunes can significantly affect your testosterone levels.
The first-line treatment for hypertension is lifestyle modification, which often includes the DASH diet. What is it and how can it be improved?
Even though modern African diets may now be as miserably low in fiber as American diets, Africans still appear to have 50 times less colorectal cancer than Americans (our second leading cancer killer).
Based on the potential benefits of proper hydration such as reduced bladder cancer risk, how many cups of water should we strive to drink every day?
If we increased our consumption of conventionally-produced fruits and vegetables, how much cancer would be prevented versus how much cancer might be caused by the additional pesticide exposure?
Death row nutrition offers some insight into the standard American diet.
Is whole grain consumption just a marker for healthier behaviors, or do whole grains have direct health benefits?
