
Exercising to Protect Your Arteries from Fast Food
There is a window of time in which sufficient physical activity can help mediate some of the damage caused by eating an unhealthy meal.
There is a window of time in which sufficient physical activity can help mediate some of the damage caused by eating an unhealthy meal.
What happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal?
What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial?
What was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate the food industry failed?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get similar effects?
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?
What are the risks and benefits of using vitamin C for depression and anxiety?
If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40 percent lower glycemic impact.
Do potato eaters live longer or shorter lives than non-potato eaters?
Prunes, figs, and exercise are put to the test as natural home remedies for constipation.
Glycidol may help explain why people who eat fried foods get more cancer.
Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst?
Those with genetic mutations that leave them with an LDL cholesterol of 30 live exceptionally long lives. Can we duplicate that effect with drugs?
Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90 percent of our risk for having a heart attack, whereas drugs may only reduce risk by 20 to 30 percent?
If the microbiome of those eating plant-based diets protects against the toxic effects of TMAO, what about swapping gut flora?
The American Medical Association has passed a resolution encouraging healthy plant-based food options be available in hospitals.
Treating the underlying cause of chronic lifestyle diseases.
Having a so-called normal cholesterol in a society where it’s normal to drop dead of a heart attack isn’t necessarily a good thing.
What are the pros and cons of relative risk versus absolute risk versus number-needed-to-treat versus average postponement of death taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs?
A Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right for you.
What is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? If patients knew the truth of how little these drugs actually worked, almost no one would agree to take them.
How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk and use it to determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug?
The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet.
There is a reason the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prohibits not only smoking, but also scented or fragranced products in its buildings.
Randomized controlled trials show lowering saturated fat intake can lead to improved breast cancer survival.
Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both?
Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials but appear to be so high out in the real world?
What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how do you get rid of it?
Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling a patient they have a much more serious, unstable disease than they really have, fraud that results in unnecessary procedures, unnecessary cost, and unnecessary patient harm.
Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally.
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are promoting expensive, risky procedures with no benefit?
Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients to sign up for procedures that are all risk without benefit?
There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency setting. They don’t prevent heart attacks, enable you to live longer, or even help with symptoms any more than placebo (fake) surgery.
Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to a number of totally different plants. Which is the most healthful?
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure?
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?
Is there a unisex chart to see what your optimal weight might be based on your height?