A meta-analysis of low-carb diets for diabetes remission found little to no effect at 12 months, clinically important harms to quality of life, and the deal-killer––an increase in LDL cholesterol.
Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbidities.
Taking less than just 18 Ambien-class sleeping pills in an entire year may triple the risk of dying prematurely.
Those who eat spicy foods regularly tend to live longer, but is it cause-and-effect?
Why can a single meal high in saturated fat impair cognition?
AGEs may be one explanation for why those who consume meat may have up to three times the risk of developing dementia compared with vegetarians.
What foods should we eat and avoid to reduce our risk of Afib?
What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a half teaspoon of powdered black cumin a day in Hashimoto’s (autoimmune thyroiditis) patients?
Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine.
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing away other treatments.
Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt your microbiome faster than taking an antibiotic.
What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how do you get rid of it?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
Are there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss?
In this live presentation, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his book How Not to Diet.
I was honored to testify before the US government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Check out the video to see my speech and a few of my favorite excerpts.
Keto diets put to the test for diabetes reversal.
Ketogenic diets found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and bone loss.
The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.
Might the appetite-suppressing effects of ketosis improve dietary compliance?
Ketogenic diets and the $33-billion diet gimmick.
Do low-carb and ketogenic diets have a metabolic advantage for weight loss?
The clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and cancer: what does the science say?
Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are caused by a drop in insulin sensitivity blamed on “intramyocellular lipid,” the buildup of fat inside our muscle cells.
What can our nutrient requirements, metabolism, and physiology tell us about what we should be eating?
What happens to our gut flora microbiome when we’re on plant-based versus animal-based diets?
When placed head-to-head against the American Diabetes Association diet, how do plant-based diets fare in terms of not only blood sugar, body weight, and cholesterol control, but also mood and quality of life?
The most comprehensive controlled trial of diet and mood finds that a plant-based nutrition program in a workplace setting across ten corporate sites significantly improves depression, anxiety, and productivity.
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 most feared causes of death and disability.
Being obese may result in as much insulin resistance as eating a high-fat diet.
Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are caused by a drop in insulin sensitivity blamed on “intramyocellular lipid,” the buildup of fat inside our muscle cells.
The Paleolithic period represents just the last two million years of human evolution. What did our bodies evolve to eat during the first 90% of our time on Earth?
The deleterious effects of a Paleolithic diet appear to undermine the positive effects of a Crossfit-based high-intensity circuit training exercise program.
Dr. Walter Kempner was a pioneer in the use of diet to treat life-threatening chronic disease, utilizing a diet of mostly rice and fruit to cure malignant hypertension and reverse heart and kidney failure.
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.
Grain consumption appears strongly protective against Alzheimer’s disease, whereas animal fat intake has been linked to dementia risk.
Blood flow within the hearts of those eating low-carb diets was compared to those eating plant-based diets.
Harvard study found that men and women eating low carb diets live significantly shorter lives, but what about the “eco-Atkins diet,” a plant-based, low carbohydrate diet?
A case report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly Journal of the American Dietetic Association) of a man who went on the Atkins diet, lost his ability to have an erection—and nearly lost his life.
