All Videos for Grains

The Best Food for Fibroids

Women with uterine fibroids should consider adding green tea to their daily diet, as a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled interventional trial suggests it may help as well as surgery.



Are Lectins in Food Good or Bad for You?

Might lectins help explain why those who eat more beans and whole grains have less cancer?



How to Avoid Lectin Poisoning

How can we properly cook beans?



Dr. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox Is Wrong

A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.



Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist

In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of all the things I try to fit into my daily routine.



Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2

What happens when metastatic prostate cancer patients were taught to increase intake of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans, and to decrease consumption of meat, dairy, and junk?



Do the Pros of Brown Rice Outweigh the Cons of Arsenic?

Are there unique benefits to brown rice that would justify keeping it in our diet despite the arsenic content?



Is White Rice a Yellow-Light or Red-Light Food?

Do the health benefits of rice consumption outweigh any potential risk from the arsenic contamination?



How Much Arsenic in Rice Is Too Much?

What are some strategies to reduce arsenic exposure from rice?



How Risky Is the Arsenic in Rice?

Getting rice down to the so-called safe water limit for arsenic would still allow for roughly 500 times greater cancer risk than is normally considered acceptable.



Arsenic in Rice Milk, Rice Krispies, & Brown Rice Syrup

I recommend people switch away from using rice milk.



Arsenic in Infant Rice Cereal

When it comes to rice and rice-based products, pediatric nutrition authorities have recommended that arsenic intake should be as low as possible.



How to Cook Rice to Lower Arsenic Levels

Boiling rice like pasta reduces arsenic levels, but how much nutrition is lost?



Which Brands & Sources of Rice Have the Least Arsenic?

Arsenic levels were tested in 5,800 rice samples from 25 countries.



Which Rice Has Less Arsenic: Black, Brown, Red, White, or Wild?

Brown rice contains more arsenic than white rice, but the arsenic in brown rice is less absorbable, so how does it wash out when you compare the urine arsenic levels of white-rice eaters to brown-rice eaters?



Cancer Risk from Arsenic in Rice & Seaweed

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?



Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, & Wine Come From?

What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic drug-laced chicken manure?



Where Does the Arsenic in Chicken Come From?

What was the National Chicken Council’s response to public health authorities calling for the industry to stop feeding arsenic-based drugs to poultry?



Microbiome: We Are What They Eat

What happens to our gut flora when we switch from a more animal-based diet to a more plant-based diet?



How to Lower Lead Levels with Diet: Breakfast, Whole Grains, Milk, Tofu?

Getting food into your stomach within a few hours of lead exposure can suppress the absorption of lead by 90 percent or more—but which foods are particularly protective?



How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer

The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions.



The Effects of Avocados and Red Wine on Meal-Induced Inflammation

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.



How to Prevent Blood Sugar & Triglyceride Spikes After Meals

Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling our artery function, thickening our blood, and causing a fight-or-flight nerve response. Thankfully, there are foods we can eat at every meal to counter this reaction.



Best Foods to Reduce Stroke Risk

What are the protective components of dietary patterns and foods associated with lower risk of cerebrovascular disease, or stroke?



Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Disease?

The benefits of taking a daily aspirin must be weighed against the risk of internal bleeding.



Salt of the Earth: Sodium and Plant-Based Diets

Is a plant-based diet sufficient to reach sodium goals?



Gut Microbiome – Strike It Rich with Whole Grains

What can we eat to increase good gut bacteria richness in our colon?



How Not to Die: An Animated Summary

We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.



How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure

How might we prevent and reverse hypertension, the number-one risk factor for death in the world?



Getting Starch to Take the Path of Most Resistance

How might beans, berries, and intact (not just whole) grains reduce colon cancer risk?



Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer

Fiber isn’t the only thing our good gut bacteria can eat. Starch can also act as a prebiotic.



Paleo Diet Studies Show Benefits

What happens when Paleolithic-type diets are put to the test?



Why Is Nutrition So Commercialized?

Why is the field of nutrition often more about marketing products than educating people about the fundamentals of healthy eating?



The Hispanic Paradox: Why Do Latinos Live Longer?

Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest. Why?



Can Morbid Obesity Be Reversed Through Diet?

How extreme was Dr. Kempner’s rice diet compared to traditional surgical approaches? Is there a safer alternative?



Is It Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown?

What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?



How to Prevent Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Avoid sugary and cholesterol-laden foods to reduce the risk of our most common cause of chronic liver disease.



Vinegar Mechanisms and Side Effects

Does vinegar work by slowing stomach emptying, acting as a starch blocker, or improving insulin sensitivity? What might be the downsides?



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.



Brown, Black, Purple, and Red Unlike White on Rice

White rice is missing more than fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Phytonutrients such as gamma oryzanol in brown rice may help explain the clinical benefits, and naturally pigmented rice varieties may be even healthier.