What Are Ultra-Processed Foods?
How exactly is “ultra-processed” defined?
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Ultra-Processed Foods: Concerns, Controversies, and Exceptions
What is the role of ultra-processed plant-based products in the diet?
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What Are Hot Dogs and Burgers Made Of?
How much of hot dogs and burgers is actual muscle meat?
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Are Beyond Meat Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Healthy?
The SWAP-MEAT study puts Beyond Meat products to the test.
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How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity?
If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should order a bean burrito instead of a meaty one.
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Do Healthy Fast-Food Options Lead to Healthier Choices?
Adding a healthy option can actually drive people to make even worse choices, thanks to a mind-blowing glitch of human psychology.
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IARC: Processed Meat Like Bacon Causes Cancer
How did the meat industry, government, and cancer organizations respond to the confirmation that processed meat, like bacon, ham, hot dogs, and lunch meat, causes cancer?
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Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?
Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.
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Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation
What do clinical studies show about the role of heme in the formation of a class of carcinogenic compounds?
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Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer?
Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? A look at heme’s carcinogenic effects.
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What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers?
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure?
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The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs. BCAAs in Meat
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels.
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Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test
What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture risk?
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Plant-Based Protein: Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to plant protein isolates?
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Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthy?
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?
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The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes
Environmental assessment of 50 different plant-based meats show them to be vastly more sustainable.
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What Not to Eat for Stroke Prevention
What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?
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Is Vegan Food Always Healthy?
Healthier plant-based diets compared to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods on diabetes risk.
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The Best Advice on Diet and Cancer
What does the best available balance of evidence say right now about what to eat and what to avoid to reduce your risk of cancer?
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How to Shop for, Handle, and Store Chicken
Poultry is the most common cause of serious food-poisoning outbreaks, followed by fish, then beef. But aren’t people more likely to order their burgers rarer than their chicken sandwiches? The primary location where outbreaks occur is the home, not restaurants.
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The Effects of Avocados on Inflammation
High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test.
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Banning Trans Fat in Processed Foods but Not Animal Fat
After the trans fat oil ban, the only remaining major sources of trans fat will be from meat and dairy.
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The Role of Burger Viruses in Cancer
Polyomaviruses discovered in meat can survive cooking and pasteurization.
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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.
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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.
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Flaxseeds for Hypertension
Extraordinary results reported in a rare example of a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of a dietary intervention (flaxseeds) to combat one of our leading killers, high blood pressure.
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Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise
The deleterious effects of a Paleolithic diet appear to undermine the positive effects of a Crossfit-based high-intensity circuit training exercise program.
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Food Industry-Funded Research Bias
Using the tobacco industry playbook, food companies have been caught trying to undermine public health policies by manipulating the scientific process.
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Protecting Teeth from Hibiscus Tea
How can we protect our tooth enamel from the erosive natural acids found in sour foods and beverages?
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From Table to Able: Combating Disabling Diseases with Food
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 leading causes of death and disability.
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Are Fatty Foods Addictive?
Those eating calorie-dense diets may have a reduced capacity to enjoy all of life’s pleasures by deadening dopamine pathways in the brain.
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Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, and Calcium Loss
The decades-old dogma that the acid-forming quality of animal protein leads to bone loss has been called into question.
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Trans Fat in Meat & Dairy
About half of America’s trans fat intake now comes from animal products.
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Can Cellulite Be Treated with Diet?
Two theories about the buildup of subcutaneous fat, involving the chemical spermine and the hormone adiponectin, suggest a plant-based diet may help with cellulite.
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Paleolithic Lessons
An evolutionary argument for a plant-based diet is presented, in contrast to “Paleo” fad diets.
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Meat and Weight Gain in the PANACEA Study
In one of the largest nutrition studies ever, total meat consumption was significantly associated with weight gain in men and women—and the link remained even after controlling for calories.
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Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death
Death in America is largely a foodborne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States.
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Dead Meat Bacteria Endotoxemia
The high bacteria load in raw or cooked animal foods and fermented foods may trigger an endotoxemic surge of inflammation, which may be exacerbated by the presence of saturated animal fat.
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Unsafe at Any Feed
In a national survey, fewer than half of the participants realized meat contaminated with fecal food-poisoning bacteria, such as Salmonella, can still legally be sold. Rather than producing safe products, the meat industry shifts the responsibility for safety onto the consumer.
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Treating COPD with Diet
Dietary interventions, including increasing fruit and vegetable intake and decreasing meat intake, may not only help slow the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but may actually improve lung function.
