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What Diet Best Lowers Phthalate Exposure?

The highest levels of phthalates, hormone-disrupting plastics chemical pollutants, are found in meats, fats, and dairy.



Is Fish “Brain Food” for Older Adults?

Why has fish consumption been associated with cognitive impairment and loss of executive function?



Can Vinegar Help with Blood Sugar Control?

Before drugs came along, the consumption of vinegar with meals was used as a folk remedy for diabetes, but it wasn’t put to the test until recently.



Lead Contamination in Bone Broth

Organic chicken broth is popular with paleo diet advocates, but do tests indicate the presence of the toxic heavy metal lead?



Should Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Take DHA?

Does maternal supplementation with the long-chain omega-3 fatty acid DHA improve psychomotor, mental, visual, or physical development of infants?



Plant-Based Diets and Artery Function

The improvement of arterial function on a whole food, plant-based diet appears so pronounced that cardiac patients can achieve a 90% reduction in angina attacks.



Alzheimer’s Disease, Copper, and Saturated Fat

If copper is associated with Alzheimer’s disease, what about healthy, whole plant food sources such as nuts, seeds, beans, and whole grains?



Should We Take EPA and DHA Omega-3 for Our Heart?

What’s the best way to fulfill the omega-3 essential fat requirements?



Preventing Gout Attacks with Diet

If the uric acid crystals that trigger gout come from the breakdown of purines, should gout patients avoid even healthy, purine-rich foods, such as beans, mushrooms, and cauliflower?



Omega 3s and the Eskimo Fish Tale

The concept that heart disease was rare among the Eskimos appears to be a myth.



Lead Contamination of Tea

How much green, white, black, and oolong tea can we consume before the benefits of tea start to be countered by the risks of lead contamination for children, pregnant women, and adults in general?



Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes

When placed head-to-head against the American Diabetes Association diet, how do plant-based diets fare in terms of not only blood sugar, body weight, and cholesterol control, but also mood and quality of life?



Omega 3s, Prostate Cancer, and Atrial Fibrillation

Fish and fish oil consumption do not appear to protect against heart disease, arrhythmias, or sudden death, but why would they increase cancer risk?



What Are the Healthiest Foods?

Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which foods best supply shortfall nutrients while avoiding disease-promoting components?



The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100

What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?



Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity

The most comprehensive controlled trial of diet and mood finds that a plant-based nutrition program in a workplace setting across ten corporate sites significantly improves depression, anxiety, and productivity.



Diet and Climate Change: Cooking Up a Storm

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?



Why Is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes?

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.



Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet

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.



Fish Consumption and Suicide

The mercury content in fish may help explain links found between fish intake and mental disorders, depression, and suicide.



Does Fiber Really Prevent Diverticulosis?

The parable of the tiny parachute explains the study that found no relationship between dietary fiber intake and diverticulosis.



Flame-Retardant Pollutants and Child Development

PBDE fire-retardant chemicals in the food supply may contribute to attention and cognitive deficits in children.



How to Treat Kidney Stones with Diet

Decreasing animal protein and sodium intake appears more effective in treating calcium oxalate and uric acid kidney stones (nephrolithiasis) than restricting calcium or oxalates.



Migratory Skin Worms from Sushi

Gnathostomiasis from raw fish is a growing problem, manifested by tiny worms that burrow under our skin and, in rare cases, can get into our eyes and brain.



Dietary Pollutants May Affect Testosterone Levels

Endocrine-disrupting industrial toxins in the aquatic food chain may affect genital development of boys and sexual function in men.



How to Prevent Kidney Stones with Diet

Interventional studies support the population data that animal protein consumption appears to markedly increase the risk of kidney stones.



Are Organic Foods Healthier?

Test tube studies show advantages of organic produce, such as better cancer cell growth suppression, but what about in people, not Petri dishes?



How to Make Your Own Fruit & Vegetable Wash

Commercial fruit and vegetable washes fail to work better than tap water, but there is a cheap do-it-yourself solution that may completely eliminate certain pesticide residues.



Switching from Beef to Chicken & Fish May Not Lower Cholesterol

The negative impact of red meat on our cholesterol profile may be similar to that of white meat.



Diet & Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

A neurotoxin called BMAA that concentrates in seafood may help explain clusters of Lou Gehrig’s disease.



ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease): Fishing for Answers

The neurotoxin BMAA is found in seafood and the brains of Alzheimer’s and ALS victims. Might dietary changes help prevent amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?



If White Rice Is Linked to Diabetes, What About China?

Protein consumption can exacerbate the insulin spike from high glycemic foods.



Do Flexitarians Live Longer?

Does just reducing one’s intake of meat, dairy, and eggs significantly reduce mortality?



Which Parts of the Mediterranean Diet Extended Life?

Of all the components of a healthy Mediterranean diet, which are associated with a longer lifespan?



PREDIMED: Does Eating Nuts Prevent Strokes?

A randomized controlled trial found that a Mediterranean-type diet can dramatically lower the risk of subsequent heart attacks. How does it compare with plant-based diet data?



The Mediterranean Diet or a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet?

A randomized controlled trial found that a Mediterranean-type diet can dramatically lower the risk of subsequent heart attacks. How does it compare with plant-based diet data?



Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Prevent Alzheimer’s

Advanced glycation end products in our diet may suppress sirtuin enzyme activity and play a role in age-related brain volume loss.



Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes

We’ve known for a half century that plant-based diets are associated with lower diabetes risk, but how low does one have to optimally go on animal product and junk food consumption?



Ciguatera Poisoning & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The effects of the neurotoxins that can contaminate fish like red snapper and grouper can last for decades.



Estrogen in Meat, Dairy, and Eggs

The sex steroids found naturally in animal products likely exceed the hormonal impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemical pollutants.