All Videos for Heart Disease

Four Nuts Once a Month

A single serving of Brazil nuts may bring cholesterol levels down faster than statin drugs and keep them down even a month after that single ingestion.



How the Egg Board Designs Misleading Studies

The cholesterol in eggs not only worsens the effects of saturated fat, but has a dramatic effect on the level of cholesterol and fat circulating in our bloodstream during the day.



Barriers to Heart Disease Prevention

According to the Director of the famous Framingham Heart Study, the best way to manage cholesterol and heart disease risk is with a more plant-based diet. Why then, don’t more doctors advise their patients to change their diets?



How to Prevent Prediabetes in Children

Prediabetes is a disease in and of itself, associated with early damage to the eyes, kidneys, and heart. The explosion of diabetes in children is a result of our epidemic of childhood obesity. A plant-based diet may help, given that vegetarian kids grow up not only taller, but thinner.



Beans, Beans, They’re Good for Your Heart

Legumes such as lentils, chickpeas, beans and split peas may reduce cholesterol so much that consumers may be able to get off their cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, but to profoundly alter heart disease risk we may have to more profoundly alter our diet.



Gluten-Free Diets: Separating the Wheat from the Chat

How common is gluten sensitivity? Are there benefits of gluten? Why does the medical profession explicitly advise against people who suspect they might be gluten intolerant from just going on a gluten-free diet?



Inhibiting Platelet Aggregation with Berries

The number one killer of Americans may be not eating enough fruit. Even if we just met the recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake we could save more than 100,000 people a year. One of the mechanisms by which plant foods protect us is by keeping our platelets from becoming activated.



What’s the Best Mouthwash?

There’s a cheap concoction one can make at home that safely wipes out cavity-forming bacteria on our teeth better than chlorhexidine mouthwash and also reduces their plaque-forming ability.



Which Vegetable Binds Bile Best?

Which foods are best at removing carcinogenic bile acids from the body: asparagus, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, collards, eggplant, green beans, kale, mustard greens, okra, or peppers? And do they work better raw or cooked?



Breast Cancer and Constipation

The reason why women who have more frequent bowel movements appear to be at lower risk for breast cancer may be because bile acids absorbed from our intestines concentrate in the breast and have a estrogen-like tumor promoting effect.



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.



Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased?

Evidence-based medicine may ironically bias medical professionals against the power of dietary intervention.



Saving Lives by Treating Acne with Diet

Over-activated TOR signaling may help explain the link between acne and subsequent risk for prostate and breast cancer.



What Diet Should Physicians Recommend?

Kaiser Permanente, the largest U.S. managed care organization, publishes patient education materials to help make plant-based diets the “new normal” for patients and physicians.



Dark Chocolate and Artery Function

What do studies not funded by the chocolate industry show about the effect of cocoa on arterial health?



When Low-Risk Means High-Risk

Dr. Rose’s sick-population concept may explain why many nutrition studies underestimate the role of diet in disease.



Cadmium & Cancer: Plant vs. Animal Foods

Though the most concentrated sources of the toxic metal cadmium are cigarette smoke, seafood, and organ meats, does greater consumption from whole grains and vegetables present a concern?



Anti-Inflammatory Life Is a Bowl of Cherries

Sweet red Bing cherries may act as a selective COX-2 inhibitor, reducing inflammation without the damage to our stomach and gut lining caused by NSAID drugs like ibuprofen.



Do Vegetarians Get Enough Protein?

Nutritional quality indices show plant-based diets are the healthiest, but do vegetarians and vegans reach the recommended daily intake of protein?



Longer Life Within Walking Distance

Researchers find exercise often works just as well as drugs for the treatment of heart disease and stroke, and the prevention of diabetes. Exercise is medicine.



Turning the Clock Back 14 Years

Four simple health behaviors may cut our risk of chronic disease by nearly 80%, potentially dropping our risk of dying equivalent to that of being 14 years younger.



Eggs and Arterial Function

Even studies funded by the American Egg Board show our arteries benefit from not eating eggs.



Debunking Egg Industry Myths

The latest meta-analysis of studies on egg consumption and heart disease risk found that even less than a single egg a day is associated with increased risk of both cardiovascular disease and diabetes.



Walnuts and Artery Function

Not eating walnuts may double our risk of dying from heart disease (compared to at least one serving a week)—perhaps because nuts appear to improve endothelial function, allowing our arteries to better relax normally.



Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer

Reducing cholesterol levels may inhibit breast cancer development, but the long-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs is associated with more than double the risk of both types of breast cancer: invasive ductal carcinoma and invasive lobular carcinoma.



Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment

When doctors withhold dietary treatment options from cardiac patients, they are violating the cornerstone of medical ethics, informed consent.



Phytates for the Treatment of Cancer

Do the anticancer effects of phytates in a petri dish translate out into clinical studies on cancer prevention and treatment?



Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells

Unlike most other anticancer agents, the phytates naturally found in whole plant foods may trigger cancer cell differentiation, causing them to revert back to behaving more like normal cells.



Low-Carb Diets and Coronary Blood Flow

Blood flow within the hearts of those eating low-carb diets was compared to those eating plant-based diets.



Nuts May Help Prevent Death

Just a few small servings of nuts a week may increase our lifespan and lower cancer risk.



Food Antioxidants, Stroke, and Heart Disease

The oxidation of high-fat and cholesterol-rich foods in our stomachs may help explain why eating antioxidant packed foods appears to reduce heart attack and stroke risk.



Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe?

Freedom of Information Act documents reveal that the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned the egg industry that saying eggs are nutritious or safe may violate rules against false and misleading advertising.



How Much Exercise to Sustain Weight Loss?

What role has inactivity played in the obesity epidemic and how much should we be exercising?



Who Determines if Food Additives Are Safe?

The safety of food additives is determined not by the FDA, but by the manufacturers of the chemicals themselves.



Is Fish Oil Just Snake Oil?

Advice to eat oily fish, or take fish oil, to lower risk of heart disease, stroke, or mortality is no longer supported by the balance of available evidence.



Should We Take a Multivitamin?

What does the best available science say about the role multivitamins may play in heart disease, cancer, and longevity?



Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine

An editorial by the Director of Yale’s Prevention Research Center on putting a face on the tragedy of millions suffering and dying from chronic diseases that could be prevented, treated, and reversed if doctors inspired lifestyle changes in their patients.



Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet

The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt suggests an explanation for why many of our most common and deadliest diseases were rare or even nonexistent in populations eating plant-based diets.



Boosting the Bioavailability of Curcumin

Dietary strategies, including the use of black pepper (piperine), can boost blood levels of curcumin from the spice turmeric by up to 2,000%.



Which Spices Fight Inflammation?

An elegant experiment is described in which the blood of those eating different types of spices—such as cloves, ginger, rosemary, and turmeric—is tested for anti-inflammatory capacity.