Ultra-Processed Junk Food Put to the Test
What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial?
What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial?
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 we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21?
We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we are not holding up our end of the bargain.
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?
Broccoli, vinegar, and lemon juice are put to the test to blunt the glycemic index of white potatoes.
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?
Foods that reduce inflammation. What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like?
Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst?
Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? The effects of pesticides on cancer risk.
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?
Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? And, what do we do about toxic mold contamination of food?
The overall cost-benefit ratio for mycotoxins depends on which food is contaminated.
What can reishi mushrooms, shiitake mushroom extracts, and whole powdered white mushrooms do for cancer patients?
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.
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.
A randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being.
The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet.
Women with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.”
Randomized controlled trials show lowering saturated fat intake can lead to improved breast cancer survival.
Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36.
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?
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing away other treatments.
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.
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to plant protein isolates?
How does sorghum compare with other grains in terms of protein, antioxidants, and micronutrients? And the benefits of red sorghum compared to black and white varieties.
Increased risk of metabolic complications starts at an abdominal circumference of 31.5 inches in women and 37 inches in most men, though it’s closer to 35.5 inches for South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese men.
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer?